November 14, 2016 at 3:16 pm
As already reported last year, the Union reminds members that feedback for parents’ days or evenings is voluntary and not obligatory. Furthermore: (1) teachers are not obliged and may rightly refuse to give personal e-mail addresses; (2) are not obliged to enter comments for students; (3) are not obliged to adopt a classification system of […]
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November 11, 2016 at 2:41 pm
November 11, 2016 at 2:33 pm
Regards the use of mobile phones, the MUT wishes to clarify that unless an educator is given funding for a mobile phone including the mobile phone service one is using, the person is under no obligation to use his/her personal mobile phone to answer calls for work related purposes. This applies even during working hours […]
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November 4, 2016 at 3:09 pm
Following correspondence sent to Head of Schools by the Principal Permanent Secretary, the MUT asked the Ministry why the PPS has made training about appraisals mandatory to Heads when appraisals of educators are regulated by the current sectoral agreement and are currently not in place following a suspension dating back a number of years. In […]
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November 4, 2016 at 2:57 pm
Members are hereby being advised that the directive for Complementary Teachers on in-class visits is being withdrawn after a circular regulating complementary work is being issued by the DQSE in the coming days. Any persons with difficulty should contact the Union.
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November 3, 2016 at 5:01 pm
The Malta Union of Teachers is supporting Education International which is firmly protesting the unwarranted six-year jail sentence imposed on Esmail Abdi, a leader of the Tehran Teacher Trade Association. Click here to join the EI in protesting and supporting the release of this innocent teacher.
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November 2, 2016 at 3:39 pm
Following the trade dispute with Junior College and the decision by the University of Malta to stop the publishing of absent lecturers on the College monitors, the MUT would like to point out that it has no issue with students knowing that their lecture has been cancelled. The problem that the Union highlighted was that […]
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November 2, 2016 at 2:50 pm
November 1, 2016 at 4:01 pm
The MUT wrote to the Principal at the Junior College and the Rector at the University of Malta to register a trade dispute regarding the issue of placing absent lecturers’ names on publicly accessible monitors. The Union stated that it has already remonstrated with the JC authorities that this practice is lending itself to abuse […]
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November 1, 2016 at 12:04 pm
The President’s Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society contacted the Union to invite members to a morning seminar titled “New Developments in Diabetes Type 2 Treatment” led by leading international endocrinologist-diabetologist Professor Nebojsa Lalic to help raise awareness of this serious condition. The talk is on Saturday 19th November, 9am, at the President’s Palace, St […]
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