December 2, 2021 at 5:07 pm
The MUT is informed that the Ministry for Education has an on going issue with the contractor providing risk assessments in schools. Rather than tackling the situation, the Ministry ordered educators to carry out and fill in risk assessment checklists. The Union is strongly objecting that this duty is being passed to educators and is […]
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November 23, 2021 at 9:23 am
The Malta Union of Teachers has filed two judicial protests against the Ministry for Education for its failure in granting the recognition to MUT of a number of employees. The judicial protests follow requests for recognition presented to the Ministry and the Directorate of Employment and Industrial Relations. The first judicial protest involves the request […]
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November 12, 2021 at 4:45 pm
The MUT is informed that SMT in State schools are being requested to carry out evacuation drills during this term and to provide the respective documentation to the Ministry. Whilst the union agrees on the importance of evacuation procedures to be in place in all schools, the union is concerned about the exercise as the […]
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November 10, 2021 at 4:32 pm
The union notes the request received by Heads of Schools for nomination of cases to the new Board for Education Matters. Whilst the MUT has confirmed that the board has not yet been established, the union cannot accept that schools are being asked to nominate haphazardly ‘potential’ cases without any knowledge of the remit of […]
read more »November 10, 2021 at 4:31 pm
During the past years, the Ministry for Education has outsourced the risk assessment process carried out in schools to a private company. The union objected a number of times regarding the mediocre service that is being provided to schools, whereby schools’ risk assessments are being carried out without even conducting visits in schools, assessment of […]
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November 5, 2021 at 2:01 pm
During the past days, the MUT has been involved in intensive discussions with the Ministry for Education regarding the situation of Peripatetic, Support and Teachers in services and the respective directives. The deployment exercise has now been redone and the union has followed the process in its entirety to make sure it is fair with […]
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November 5, 2021 at 1:56 pm
As communicated during the meeting held for affected teachers and HODs of Maths, the union is suspending the directives issued in relation to loading of 25 lessons. The union is aware that there are still teachers with a load of 25 lessons and is making the necessary pressure so that this is addressed during the […]
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November 5, 2021 at 1:52 pm
Due to situations in the past in which a number of schools forced teachers to remain in class whenever there is a student teacher, the MUT would like to remind members about the directive to refrain from remaining in class with a student teacher unless they are officially appointed mentors. It is the responsibility of […]
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October 19, 2021 at 3:33 pm
The MUT held a meeting with the respective directorates within the Ministry for Education whereby it was agreed that non-contact time shall follow the same procedures of last year. The applicable remuneration shall be issued when non-contact time cannot be provided.
read more »October 19, 2021 at 3:30 pm
The MUT discussed the situation regarding the 15-mins break of LSEs assigned to one-to one students. It was agreed that the same arrangements adopted last year shall remain in force whereby the 15 mins break of all LSEs assigned to one-to-one students shall be remunerated. If an LSE requests, instead, that s/he takes the allocated […]
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