December 11, 2019 at 2:56 pm
The MUT has received the following message along with a confirmation message from her tutor: “My name is Michela Chircop, a 4th year social work student at the University of Malta. I am currently working on my dissertation – “The relation between poverty and children’s level of education”. For the data collection, I will be […]
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December 11, 2019 at 11:25 am
The MUT condemns the aggression by a parent on a Head of School during the carrying out of her duties. The MUT is informed that the parent reacted violently to a decision by the school not to let the student go on an outing while sick with a medical certificate. The outing had to be […]
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December 10, 2019 at 3:36 pm
Following a request for recognition and a verification exercise carried out by the DIER, it was established that the MUT has the majority of members at the Institute for Education (IFE). The MUT would like to thank members at the IFE for trusting the union and shall now be proceeding with discussions with members and […]
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December 9, 2019 at 10:06 am
The Malta Union of Teachers has the pleasure to unveil a monument celebrating the Union’s 100th Anniversary in an activity held Friday 6th December. Entitled “L-edukazzjoni tittrasforma l-persuna u tiftaħ bibien ġodda”, the monument depicts a figure of a girl, seated, reading a book. Behind her is an open door, signifying an open mind through […]
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December 9, 2019 at 9:34 am
The MUT is lifting the directive issued re loading of teachers of Maltese. The MUT has been in communication with the respective directorate regarding the situation of Maltese. Following intense discussions, the situation has been solved according to the following terms: – The number of tasks is being reduced to twelve per year. – Tasks […]
read more »December 5, 2019 at 1:04 pm
The MUT has this morning been in contact with the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry for Education and Employment to declare a breach of agreement. The following is the list of issues mentioned on which MEDE is not taking action and which have been highlighted previously by the MUT: 1. Contact time of Primary is […]
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December 3, 2019 at 2:27 pm
Following the ultimatum issued by the MUT regarding the commencement of discussions on the provision of insurance for educators, MEDE held a meeting with MUT where it expressed its intention to continue to push for the insurance to be provided. It was agreed that a series of meetings shall follow regarding this issue. Members will […]
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December 3, 2019 at 2:20 pm
The MUT is communicating with MCAST management regarding two issues related to the MCAST MG2i courses as follows: 1) The Union is objecting to the procedure being implemented whereby MCAST is not paying for all lessons carried out by lecturers who opted to give lectures in MG2i. The MUT gave an ultimatum until Monday 9th […]
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December 3, 2019 at 11:42 am
The Malta Union of Teachers has just issued the fifth edition of The Educator – A Journal of Educational Matters, which is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes research on aspects related to education. The journal attracts contributions which help to promote debate on educational matters and presents new or updated research on many topics. In […]
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December 3, 2019 at 10:47 am
The MUT contacted MEDE after it was informed that the new call for KGE stipulates a request for 120ECTS. The issue is that MCAST graduates in early years followed the BTEC course prior to the change to homegrown courses in 2016. The BTEC course is deemed as a full qualification at Level 4 in the […]
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