Tag: Ministry of Education
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No permission requested by Sandra Gauci to speak about behaviour issues in schools
Prior to giving an interview to Il-Każin about growing behaviour issues in schools, ADPD – Green Party Leader, Sandra Gauci, did not request a permission from the Ministry of Education. Educators have been forced by the Ministry of Education to request a permission every time they speak to the press about issues related to the…
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MCAST: a total failure in basic management
The case of Francine Farrugia is not just the result of a complex fraud that enabled her to siphon off up to €2.3 million from MCAST into her own pockets: it is also a systematic failure caused by a management crisis stemming from the very top of the Ministry of Education and extending to the…
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The Ex-Commissioner of Voluntary Organisations thinks that Joseph Muscat is being framed by Court experts
Updated: He was forced to resign as Commissioner in 2021. Anthony Abela Medici, the Commissioner of Voluntary Organisations, thinks that Joseph Muscat, the most corrupt politician in Maltese history, is being framed by the Court experts. Apparently, he is also a forensic expert himself and someone who can be a court expert himself. He said…
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Education Minister Clifton Grima says it is correct to censor teachers
While being confronted by a teacher during Jon Mallia’s show “Il-Każin”, Education Minister Clifton Grima said that the government is just following normal procedure by censoring teachers and compelling them to ask for permission to speak to the media. He also said that it was the right thing to do because comments on the education…
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Head of Ethics at the Ministry of Education cries “character assassination”: calls us a blog
After we pointed out that Roger Tirazona, the Head of Ethics at the Ministry of Education, was spreading Russian disinformation and vilifying Ukrainians, he wrote a short paragraph crying “character assassination” and described this media outlet as a “blog”. Somehow, he brought in Daphne Caruana Galizia into the whole thing, as if her writings about…
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Head of Ethics Department at the Ministry of Education spreads Russian propaganda
Surely, I don’t ever remember such a class of bizarre, incompetent, and unemployable individuals running the Ministry of Education in history. Apparently, the Ministry of Education has a Head of Ethics who fancies himself as a “geopolitics expert.” In reality, this means he enjoys reading Russian propaganda and sees himself as a clever contrarian by…
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ADPD Leader Sandra Gauci says Malta Union of Teachers should have issued strong directives against censorship circular
ADPD Leader Sandra Gauci, who is a teacher herself, stated that the Malta Union of Teachers should have issued strong directives against the Department of Education’s circular censoring educators. The Department of Education issued a circular late last year ordering educators not to speak in public about the education system so as not to “compromise…
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The Malta Union of Teachers is currently fighting two industrial disputes
The Malta Union of Teachers has declared just another industrial dispute this time over the Institute of Tourism Studies. The union is claiming that the Ministry has intentionally broke down talks to avoid meeting the demands of the union. The Minister for Tourism Clayton Bartolo has just resigned with negotiations having been abandoned altogether. The…
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Monitoring teachers via their laptops
In order to add to his list of truly dystopian measures, after censoring educators with a circular that reads like something that has come straight out of Communist East Germany, the Ministry of Education has now ramped up surveillance of its educators via their laptops. The Malta Union of Teachers sent a notice to the…
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Arnold Cassola files complaint to the Ombudsman against Minister of Education for censoring educators
Independent politician Arnold Cassola has filed a submission to the Ombudsman, requesting him to investigate the directive issued by the Ministry of Education to censor teachers. The directive, which was first published here, orders teachers and educators to request permission from their superior before speaking to the press so as “not to compromise the integrity…
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Svetlana Muscat is now working at the Ministry of Educations’ National Skills Council
Svetlana Muscat has been transferred to the National Skills Council at the Ministry of Education after having been suspended from her prison role for brokering a meeting with Yorgen Fenech and a local gas distributor. Despite her irregular behaviour, she was retained on the public payroll because she enjoys the protection and backing of this…
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The printed copies of the MUT-Ministry of Education Collective Agreement are no longer needed
Photos from the Malta Union of Teachers’ offices in Ħamrun this morning show that printed copies of the collective agreement signed by the Malta Union of Teachers and the Ministry of Education are no longer needed and are being disposed of. Probably, this is not the end of this comic saga. They may always keep…
