November 18, 2016 at 6:44 pm
The Malta Union of Teachers would like to notify members that as from Tuesday 22nd November 2016, it will start its operations from new offices. The address will be 759, Triq il-Kbira San Ġużepp, Ħamrun, HMR 1016. In view of this, the MUT will be CLOSED to the public on Monday 21st November 2016. In […]
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November 18, 2016 at 11:17 am
The MUT wrote to the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education and Employment as following the media coverage of the alleged case at St Gorg Preca Senior School Hamrun (ex Liceo), many staff members have expressed serious concern about their safety especially when entering and leaving the school premises. Following the many comments by […]
read more »November 17, 2016 at 12:47 pm
The MUT has written to the Minister for Education and Employment in relation to the alleged abuse case in Ħamrun Senior School, ex Lyceum. The Union stated that from the initial evidence, this case is seemingly similar to previous cases involving allegations on educators. In its correspondence, the Union stated that unfortunately the teacher concerned […]
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November 15, 2016 at 12:56 pm
The MUT is informed that a particular Primary School has resorted to disseminate recommendations made by an Education Officer via a School Memo following an informal visit to particular class teacher/s. In so doing, the school administration is indirectly exposing the staff member/s concerned. The MUT wrote to the Head of School involved about its […]
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November 14, 2016 at 4:18 pm
The MUT wrote to the Secretariat for Catholic Education to inquire whether the Church Authorities are going to abide by Circular UPM 34/2016 issued by the OPM which announced an improvement in working conditions of public officers. Particularly, the Union asked for an indication whether the Secretariat will abide by these developments in the same […]
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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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