The MUT said in a statement today that it “would like to point out that although mathematically speaking the figures published by the European Commission are not in dispute, they fail to take into account the increased number of teachers at primary level that have been absorbed in the several new services being offered by the Directorate Student Services and by the Directorate of the Curriculum Management and elearning.”

“The increased student services and peripatetic service which was implemented throughout the last years has obviously contributed to the fall in average figures. As most teachers (and parents) in primary schools can attest, class sizes, especially in the larger schools remain unchanged and the impression being given by sections of the media that most teachers are now having classes of nine students amounts to nothing but fantasy and an attempt to mislead the general public,” the MUT concluded.

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