July 10, 2015 at 11:30 am
The ministers of EU and EU-candidate countries responsible for vocational education and training (VET), the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the EU, the European Commission and the EU-level cross-sectoral social partners, including ETUC, endorsed the Riga Conclusions on 22 June in Riga. The final text can be found via the website of the Latvian […]
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July 8, 2015 at 10:30 am
The MUT would like to thank all members for all their hard work during the scholastic year and wish them happy summer holidays full of well-deserved rest. Meanwhile, there is a lot of hearsay about many changes that are allegedly being made in our sector. The MUT would like to reassure all members that the […]
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July 8, 2015 at 10:20 am
The Union has been informed that in various Colleges Primary School teachers have been asked to work on their half-yearly exams during the summer recess. This has apparently been the case also in some Secondary Schools. Moreover it appears that teachers are being told that the deadline for this is in September or October. Members […]
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July 8, 2015 at 10:10 am
The MUT wrote to the Minister for Education and Employment after it received complaints from various members with regards to the choice of venues for in-service courses. It appears that a number of centres that are being utilised are not equipped for the summer heat and are hardly fit for hosting groups of professionals for […]
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July 8, 2015 at 10:00 am
The MUT has written to the Head of School at Victoria Middle School after it was informed by members that in a meeting she apparently declared that requests for more teachers at the school are being held or jeopardised by the MUT. The Union stated that this completely untrue as the MUT does not interfere […]
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July 8, 2015 at 9:55 am
The MUT has written to the Executive Director at the ITS after it received complaints from a number of lecturers that they are apparently being asked by the Registrar to adjust students’ marks so that they can obtain a pass mark. The Union stated that this is not acceptable and asked him to look into […]
read more »July 6, 2015 at 12:25 pm
The union received reports about requests to teaching grades including SMT members to attend meetings during holiday periods. The MUT would like to remind all members that they cannot be requested to attend meetings during holiday periods. Any pressure to attend such meetings should be reported to the union. Further to this, any communicated requests […]
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July 3, 2015 at 2:25 pm
The MUT Youth section has just published the fourth issue of its e-newsletter for 2015, which is the seventh one for the current term. Articles focus primarily on “Making Science Accessible” and on “6th Form Wildlife Conservation Expeditions for Lecturers, Biology, Geography, and Environmental Science Student”. Click here to download.
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July 3, 2015 at 2:20 pm
The MUT wrote to the DGs at the Directorates to ask for information about when the interviews for the post of H&S teachers and Catch them Young will take place in Gozo. The Union noted that after a month applicants are still to get any kind of information. Members will be updated accordingly.
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