The University of Malta's student council (KSU) said that it will consider taking legal action if no solution is found in the next seven weeks in the ongoing industrial dispute between the University of Malta, its academic staff, and the Ministry for Education on an updated collective agreement. "Should no solution be found, KSU will be escalating
On what feels like the umpteenth occasion, there is an industrial dispute concerning the education sector. After one which impacted government schools, another which had significant and heavy impacts on MCAST until an agreement was finally reached, this time it is the University of Malta which is the institution being affected. This week, the University
The Nationalist Party on Thursday called on the government to “take immediate action” to resolve the dispute over the University’s academic staff collective agreement, accusing it of “dragging its feet”, with 12,000 students bearing the consequences. The Opposition was reacting to academics’ decision to withhold exam and dissertation results after
The Nationalist Party noted Thursday that UMASA - which represents lecturers at the University of Malta - has just announced new actions in the ongoing industrial dispute with the University, as the Government and the Ministry for Education have yet to present a satisfactory collective agreement that meets its demands. This happened despite the fact
The University of Malta Academic Staff Association (UMASA) has announced an escalation of its industrial action following a lack of agreement between the union, the University of Malta (UM), and the Ministry for Education on a collective agreement. Academic staff have confirmed that, effective immediately and until further notice: Exams and theses/dissertations
The University of Malta Academic Staff Association (UMASA) has declared that, with immediate effect, university staff are to accelerate industrial action as discussions for a new collective agreement seem to have stalled. UMASA instructed its members on Wednesday to correct and grade all exams and dissertations, but withhold marks from students for
Academics are being instructed to withhold exam and dissertation results, after academics’ trade union UMASA escalated its dispute over a new collective agreement with the University of Malta. The two sides have been at odds for months. The union declared an industrial dispute in November, saying it had submitted its financial demands a year earlier