October 8, 2015 at 3:45 pm
The MUT today met the Provincial of De La Salle Brothers, who run Stella Maris College, to discuss the situations mentioned by the Union in the past weeks related to recruitment at the school. During the meeting Brother Provincial Martin Borg FSC explained that a series of reforms are being planned for the school to […]
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October 6, 2015 at 4:25 pm
The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing After the MUT met its members who teach drama, art and music, it results that the situation reported yesterday by the MUT in relation to peripatetic teachers was brought about because of a serious lack of coordination between Directorates within the same Ministry. […]
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October 5, 2015 at 3:15 pm
The Malta Union of Teachers is commemorating World Teachers Day 2015, held annually on 5th October, with the theme “Empowering teachers, building sustainable societies”. This is the official theme adopted by UNESCO and Education International and many countries will be celebrating it in diverse ways. Today Education International, with its affiliates worldwide including the Malta […]
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September 25, 2015 at 2:37 pm
With reference to the Assistant Head of School cleared of child abuse yesterday, the MUT welcomes the court’s decision and appreciates the relative swiftness in which it was reached. The Union hopes that the person involved is now not dragged into further turmoil and that justice is delivered to this person by acting upon those […]
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September 18, 2015 at 1:00 pm
MUT appeals for Church Schools Recruitment Reform – requests urgent meeting with Archbishop (16-09-2015 10.30am) The MUT has appealed to Archbishop Scicluna to enter into serious discussions with the view of reforming the process of recruitment in Church Schools to reflect honesty, transparency and good practice. The Union, while requesting an urgent meeting with the […]
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September 14, 2015 at 4:40 pm
The Malta Union of Teachers (MUT) notes a number of issues being faced by its members at the Foundation for Educational Services (FES) and is thus requesting a meeting with the entity management to discuss these issues at the earliest. The MUT is appealing with the FES to listen urgently to the FES Centres employees […]
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September 7, 2015 at 11:20 am
The MUT has made an appeal to the Minister for Education and Employment to look into highly debatable terminations at MCAST and reverse such decisions following assurances in the last months by top MCAST officials that such redundancies would not occur. This appeal is being made after two lecturers, both American citizens and coincidentally both […]
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August 31, 2015 at 9:15 am
In a reaction to the launch of the white paper on schools’ role in alleviating traffic congestion, the MUT is highly disappointed that the Government seems to believe that the main solution to reduce traffic congestion from Maltese roads seems to lie with changing schedules for Maltese students. First of all the Union would like […]
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July 27, 2015 at 11:55 am
The Malta Union of Teachers and the Lisa Marie Foundation are both in agreement with any measures that will help to protect all minors from persons who can be of harm to them. It is thus that both organisations are in agreement with the general objectives behind the proposals included in the white paper just […]
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