The Malta Union of Teachers has denied a report that it withdrew from the government's co-ed committee after a meeting with the Nationalist Party.

The union said it met and heard everyone, but it took its own decisions and represented no one other than teachers. 

The union said tis decision was based on the fact that the governemnt decided and announced that co-ed would be extended to all governemnt secondary schools from next year when a pilot project in a single school was only half way through. That decision had prejudiced the co-ed committee, whose task it had been to make  recommendations to the government.