A proposed bill to the Education Act was written with the intention to strengthen the teaching profession, and also to protect teachers, the Education Ministry's permanent secretary, Frank Fabri, said today.
Fabri was meeting journalists after the Malta Union of Teachers expressed its objections to some of the changes being proposed. The Nationalist Party has also come out against the amendments, saying that what teachers gained in the 1988 Education Act is being lost 30 years later.
Fabri said the ministry was taken aback by the reaction of the Malta Union of Teachers (MUT) with regards to the possible Amendments to the Education Act being presented to parliament, particularly because they insisted that the MUT was consulted in the writing of these changes.
The MUT raised concerns with a clause in the Bill that they claimed would revoke all 'permanent' teaching warrants, along with raising other issues such as the possibility of a child being educated through home-schooling.
In its statement, the PN condemned the "regressive" ideas proposed by the government which, it said, would remove the professional status introduced in 1988. The government is showing lack of respect towards teachers as it did when it was in power in the 1970s and 1980s. "We had forgotten those times," the PN said, urging the government to withdraw its proposals.
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