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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]