February 20, 2017 at 4:54 pm
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February 20, 2017 at 4:44 pm
Reminder: Directive for SMTs in State Schools on Inventory
The MUT reminds SMT members that the directive issued October 2014 is still in place – i.e. that SMT members should refrain from wasting time attaching stickers to objects at their schools as instructed by the Directorate. Such labour-intensive tasks should be assigned to adequately provided support staff and not performed by SMT members.
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MUT deplores stealing of posts from its Facebook closed group
The MUT notes that discussions between educators in the MUT Facebook Closed Group have ended as news items in sections of the press without permission. Whilst accepting that whatever is discussed on social media is never strictly private, the Union expects that journalists working on such news items have at least the decency of speaking […]
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February 13, 2017 at 12:16 pm
Presentation on influence of the politics of Gramsci on leisure
AZAD academia has contacted the MUT as it is organising an event on Thursday 16th February 2017 at 6pm at AZAD Foundation 224, Republic Street Valletta. The theme is “L-ideoloġija politika fid-divertiment” – the influence of the politics of Gramsci on leisure and the leisure industry – and the speaker is Dr. Robert Cassar. Click […]
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February 8, 2017 at 4:58 pm
Directive for Church Primary Schools not to take instructions from the Church’s literacy team
The MUT wrote to the Director for Educational Services in Church Schools as it appears that some schools have been approached by persons from the Secretariat to perform literacy assessments. It transpires that teachers were later informed that through the results of this assessment, they are able to identify the “good from the bad” teachers. […]
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February 8, 2017 at 4:52 pm
Directive on Computer Coding for Church primary schools
The MUT wrote to the Director for Educational Services in Church Schools after members at Church primary schools were asked to attend courses and/or learn computer coding as an extra and above their already cumbersome curriculum. In view of this, the Union is directing members to refrain from coding and/or programming and/or teaching IT programming/coding […]
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February 8, 2017 at 4:45 pm
Directive on MCAST ICA Assessment Guidelines
Following the issuing of the ‘Assessment Guidelines’ document at the MCAST Institute for the Creative Arts, the MUT is directing all Union members at this Institute to ignore point 7 of the document and to stick to the usual methodologies and practices. In correspondence with the MCAST CEO, the MUT stated that this document was […]
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