August 27, 2015 at 12:10 pm
Inspire is organising workshops related to Numicon, which introduce a multi-sensory approach to teaching numbers and the number system especially for students who find difficulty in learning maths. Numicon can be the answer to this and can help to significantly support their understanding of numbers and the number system. More information at https://inspire.org.mt/events/. Meanwhile these […]
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August 25, 2015 at 12:30 pm
The MUT was informed that certain FES child care centres were implementing the system of extra hours for child care assistants with immediate effect and not from October. The MUT took up the matter with the FES CEO who confirmed that this system should start from October and not before. In view of this, the […]
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August 25, 2015 at 12:20 pm
The MUT wrote to the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry for Education and Employment as it is very concerned about the lack of Youth Workers employed in Colleges. In fact, there are only 5 Youth Workers employed across all state schools in Malta and Gozo. In view of this, the MUT enquired when was the […]
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August 18, 2015 at 12:10 pm
The Union had ongoing discussions with the Directorates about the pressing need to replace teachers’ laptops, to provide laptops to all teaching grades and to install a station/PC in all classrooms to be connected with the interactive whiteboard. This pressing need has been acknowledged several months ago and both the Union and Directorates had discussed […]
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August 18, 2015 at 12:00 pm
The MUT wrote to the Executive Secretary at the Public Service Commission (PSC) after it was informed that the PSC notified an officer who was going to attend an interview that he has no right to know the constitution of the interviewing board. The Union asked for clarification as the practice in recent years has […]
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August 18, 2015 at 11:45 am
The MUT is currently part of the Erasmus+ project entitled “Peer Review in Adult Learning to Improve formal and Non-formal Education”, which aims at developing innovative and sustainable initiatives to support Adult Learning providers, specifically those of the non-formal domain, in approaching Quality Assurance in their organization and training provision. Partners in this project amount […]
read more »July 31, 2015 at 11:00 am
The Union and the Government have signed an agreement on the principle which will enable all Teachers, Kindergarten Assistants and Learning Support Assistants to retain their salary progression if they are employed with another employer. The agreement, which was signed on Wednesday 30th July, is also inviting all the other employers, including Church and Independent […]
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July 31, 2015 at 10:55 am
After discussions held yesterday between Union officials and the DQSE, it was agreed that checklists in the primary sector should NOT BE filled in following testing or special assessment methods. The DQSE had already made this clear in Circular DCM 074/2015 issued on 6th March. Class teachers in tandem with complementary teachers are to fill […]
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July 31, 2015 at 10:50 am
The MUT will be on shutdown for two weeks starting on Monday 3rd August 2015 and will re-open (summer opening hours) on Monday 17th August. Also please note that the MUT summer opening hours will continue as from Monday 17th August until Friday 11th September both days inclusive. During this period, the Union will be […]
read more »July 31, 2015 at 10:00 am
The MUT has been requested to circulate this for the attention of Educators. The University of Malta, Faculty of Education, Department for Inclusion and Access to Learning in collaboration with Equal Partners Foundation and The Walden Institute, ABA Centre, Rome are organising a Basic Training Course in Applied behavioural Analysis-Verbal Behaviour ABA-VB. This is being […]
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