'Unions need to unite' - Kevin Bonello
MUT President Kevin Bonello speaks to ‘Illum’ following the kick off of scholastic year 2013-2014
Report by Jean Pierre Cassar
Kevin Bonello who has been MUT President for the past three years speaks about what is expected of this scholastic year and what are set to be the main characteristics dominant this year, one of them being the co-ed pilot project.
Bonello stressed on the need of more cooperation between different Maltese unions.“We also look forward for more cooperation from different unions, especially CMTU in order to achieve what other countries achieved hundreds of years ago.”
He also made references to agreements done in Dolores Cristina’s days in office which did not take place yet in the educational system. Attacking the Government for taking ITS as one of the branches of the Ministry of Tourism, Bonello points out that the students attending the institute should still be under the care of the Ministry of Education.
The former primary teacher speaks about the problems the Union meets during scholastic years such as poverty, bullying, and lately cyber bullying between students and also abuse on educators.
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