Tag: teachers
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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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Ombudsman releases historic opinion on free speech of educators on the eve of Labour Day
The Ombudsman, ex-Judge Joseph Zammit McKeon, has released a historic decision on the eve of Labour Day condemning the directive by the Ministry of Education censoring educators from making any public comments on the education system. the Ombudsman said that educators do not lose their freedom of speech once they start working for the Department…
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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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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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Who would have thought that educators would want to read the agreement that determines their salaries?
It’s completely bizarre to me that these agreements are being kept hidden, not only from the public but also from the very people they are meant to affect. I’m also told that the public sector agreement with the civil service workers has also been kept hidden from public view along with other recently signed collective…
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Under Clifton Grima, the Ministry of Education has a recorded history of bullying educators into silence
The authoritative (and authoritarian) circular by the Ministry of Education to muzzle teachers into silence, is not the first instance of the Education Directorate issuing such directives. Education Services Director Ritianne Borg Saliba’s role within the Directorate appears to be issuing these kinds of circulars. The Director for Education Services Ritianne Saliba was slammed along…
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More complaints by teachers who haven’t received their Collective Agreement arrears
More teachers are coming forward in public to complain about not having received their arrears as signed according to their last collective agreement. Teachers have been pointing out the delayed payments since receiving their first salary after signing the agreement. The collective agreement, signed between the Malta Union of Teachers and the Ministry of Education…
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Ministry of Education fumbles teachers’ payments following agreement
The Ministry of Education has fumbled its payments following the agreement it signed with the Malta Union of Teachers. Teachers have complained that they only received part of the agreed-upon allowances, while others have said they didn’t receive any of the allowances at all. Teachers were meant to be given a one-time payment of 1000…
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The Malta Union of Teachers resumes talks with the Ministry of Education
The Malta Union of Teachers has just issued a statement saying it has resumed talks with the Ministry of Education over its proposed salaries agreement to educational staff. The MUT is set to address points raised by its members, namely discrepancies in the increase allocations to senior teachers and young recruits, and points raised by…
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Rumours of a cabinet reshuffle circulate as Minister of Education Clifton Grima is indisposed
The Malta Union of Teachers has already sent two emails to Education Minister Clifton Grima asking him to meet to continue negotiations and finalise a salary agreement for all educators. The emails remained unreplied. Previously, during the European Parliament election campaign, there was a lot of pressure from the Ministry of Education and the Malta…
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A dozen of Learning Support Assistants have teamed together to write this letter and make it public
I am publishing in full a letter that a group of Learning Supporter Assistants have written for the attention of the trade unions and the Ministry of Education currently negotiating their updated conditions. LSE’s are protesting mostly on the fact that their increaes are not as substantial as those provided to teachers. Disappointment Among some…
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Voting by union members for the proposed agreement by the Ministry of Education has been cancelled
The Malta Union of Teachers is abandoning plans to rush a proposed agreement by the Ministry of Education before the European Parliament elections. Voting for the agreement has now been cancelled as negotiations between the MUT and the Ministry of Education are still on track on several details of the agreement. More updates later. You…