October 5, 2018 at 3:21 pm
The MUT has attended a conciliation meeting this morning, as required by law, during which details of this same meeting were disclosed while it was still taking place. The way the whole process was undermined this morning is symptomatic of the way the MUT and other stakeholders are being treated in order for the Ministry […]
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October 3, 2018 at 3:50 pm
The MUT Council held an ad-hoc meeting on Wednesday evening in view of the MUT’s uncovering of the plans of the Government to undermine the profession and the professional status of educators through the education act presented in Parliament. The Council is hereby communicating its position: – The MUT is expecting the Government to withdraw […]
read more »October 3, 2018 at 10:55 am
– The MUT would like to inform members that it has cancelled all meetings with the Directorates. – The only meeting being accepted is the one with the Minister so that the MUT can state black on white all the objections to the proposed Education Act, which includes the teachers’ warrant and the proposed KGEs […]
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October 1, 2018 at 3:51 pm
Members are being directed to refrain from filling and forwarding a declaration about the distribution of ECDL notes to students as teachers cannot be responsible or have any control on teaching material passed on to students.
read more »September 28, 2018 at 8:21 pm
Following the request for information regarding loading of teachers, the Union noted that a load of 25 lessons was not issued in exceptional circumstances only as stipulated in the respective agreement. Instead, the classification of schools was worked out with the proviso of 25 lessons in the first place. The MUT has communicated several times […]
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September 28, 2018 at 12:44 pm
Following correspondence with MCAST management on the reduction of students’ learning entitlement, the MUT believes that MCAST is being very short-sighted and is not seeing the implications. MCAST’s position to safeguard student’s learning entitlement was so strong during directives of the Union earlier this year and made whatever possible to avoid students missing one minute […]
read more »September 18, 2018 at 4:06 pm
The Malta Union of Teachers is hereby directing EOs at State Schools not to participate in boards. The Union had to resort to this directive to protect its members after EOs sitting on boards are being held responsible for shortcomings in the processes and procedures which ultimately do not fall within their remit. The Union […]
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September 14, 2018 at 12:21 pm
UPDATED 17th September 9am: There seems to have been a misunderstanding regarding the text below as the text may not have been clear enough. The MUT suspended the directive to enable the two schools currently piloting the project to continue the pilot – the only two schools carrying out the pilot project are Zejtun Secondary […]
read more »August 21, 2018 at 10:47 am
Following objections made to the extension of the photocopying pilot project, to which the MUT received no reply from the Ministry for Education and Employment, the MUT is hereby directing members to refrain from providing any material to the printing press as part of this centralised system being introduced. The Union has informed the Minister […]
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June 28, 2018 at 10:19 am
The MUT is hereby directing members not to take responsibility for the ‘Social Contract’ currently being distributed to SMT as part of Skema 9 (Ex-BM88). SMTs are being expected to provide copies before the end of the scholastic year, together with explaining the text and have it signed, to all parents whose students were accepted […]
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