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Appendix 3

Staff Establishment

SCHOOL SECTION

Teaching Establishment

(a)

Staffing Ratios

The staffing ratios for all levels will be 1.5 teachers per class. In order to avoid the use of fractions of a teacher, where 0.5 of a teacher results from the application of this ratio, it will be rounded up to the nearest whole number. Teachers for split classes, where approved, will be included in the calculation of the teaching establishment before the rounding up or down of fractional staff.

(b)

Principal of School

In schools with more than 3 classes, the calculation is exclusive of the post of the Principal of the school. For grading of the Principal of School, please refer to Attachment A.

(c)

Teachers for Split Classes

At the request of the Principal of the school, the Director may approve the appointment of additional teaching staff under the terms of the salaries grant to cover staffing needs in respect of approved additional class periods for split classes, practical instruction, and specialist teaching requirements in practical schools/skills opportunity schools.

(d)

Part-time Teachers

To determine the appropriate fraction for a part-time teacher, the following formula should be used:

1.5x	Number of periods taught by teacher per week Total number of periods taught per week

(e)

School Librarian

A skills opportunity school having 15 classes or more is provided with a non-graduate teacher to be in charge of the school library on a full-time basis. For a skills opportunity school with less than 15 operating classes, a 0.5 school librarian may be appointed. The non-graduate school librarian is included in the non-graduate teaching establishment to, in addition to performing the general library duties, help improve the reading skills of the pupils and facilitate the production of self-made teaching materials, thus enhancing the school-based curriculum. The non-graduate teacher librarian should have a minimum of two years' post-qualification teaching experience, and service as a teacher librarian will count as teaching experience for promotion purpose. All these teacher librarians are required to attend a two-year part-time day release training course on first appointment. However, subject to the recommendation of the Management Committee of a school, the availability of a graduate post within the approved establishment of the school and the approval of the Director, a school may employ a suitably qualified teacher librarian for appointment to the graduate post.

(f)

Resource Teachers for Supportive Educational Programmes

Practical schools and skills opportunity schools may, with the approval of the Director, appoint additional non-graduate teachers in accordance with the following ratios to strengthen the support for civic education, sex education, moral education, student discipline through better home-school co-operation, school leavers' programme, computer education and library service if a school librarian is not provided :

Size of School		Provision of additional teachers
	Less than 6 classes	0
	6 - 9 classes	0.5*
	10 classes or above	1

The resource teacher will be included in the establishment of the non-graduate teachers as net additional provision and will not be rounded up if 0.5 additional teacher is provided.

To be provided only when there is no rounding up of the non-graduate teaching establishment of the school.

(g)

Expansion of Graduate Posts in Practical Schools and Skills Opportunity Schools

For higher teaching standards, a practical school or skills opportunity school may upgrade a maximum of four non-graduate teaching posts to graduate teaching posts provided that no serving teacher's service may be terminated for the purpose of taking advantage of this provision.

(h)

Graded Posts within the Establishment

The number of posts in each grade shall be determined by making reference to Attachment B.

(i)

Flexibility in Teaching Staff Structure

In view of the varying needs of practical schools and skills opportunity schools, Principals and the Management Committee of a school may propose, for the approval of the Director, teaching staff structures with a higher proportion of non-graduate posts than in the standard manning scales, subject to the following conditions :

(i)

No serving teacher's service may be terminated for the purpose of taking advantage of this provision; and

(ii)

When a teaching staff structure of a school has been approved and implemented which involves additional AM or SAM posts, it will only be possible to raise the proportion of graduate posts when AM and SAM posts fall vacant. It will not then be possible to replace a departing CM with a GM.

Workshop Teachers

(a)

In practical schools and skills opportunity schools with workshops, one Certificated Master/Mistress (Workshop Teacher) may be appointed per approved workshop.

(b)

In practical schools and skills opportunity schools with workshops, one Assistant Master/Mistress (Workshop Teacher) may be appointed for every 4 approved workshops.

(c)

A practical school or skills opportunity school may, with the approval of the Director, appoint a Workshop Instructor III to give instruction in those trades for which no qualified teachers are available. The post will be held against, and will not be additional to, posts on the teaching establishment.

Laboratory Technicians

(a)

Laboratory Technicians II/III for science laboratories may, with the approval of the Director, be appointed on the following scale :

Number of Laboratories	Number of Laboratory Technicians
1	1
2	2
3	3

(b)

In practical schools/skills opportunity schools with five or more laboratories, one of the laboratory technicians may, at the discretion of the Director, be appointed at the Laboratory Technician I level.

Practical School/Skills Opportunity School Social Workers

(a)

Schools may, with the approval of the Director, appoint 0.5 school social worker for every 35 pupils in skills opportunity schools and every 50 pupils in practical schools. However, where a sponsor operates two or more practical schools/skills opportunity schools, the ratio of provision may, at the discretion of the Director, be applied to the combined capacity of the schools as if they were a single school.

(b)

Social workers in skills opportunity schools should, in general, be ranked at the Senior Social Work Assistant level. In skills opportunity schools, with four school social workers, one should be ranked at the Assistant Social Work Officer level.

(c)

Social workers in practical schools should be ranked at the Assistant Social Work Officer level, if graduate social workers are employed; or at the Senior Social Work Assistant level if the posts are filled by non-graduate social workers;

Educational Psychologists

(a)

For sponsoring bodies operating a minimum of 30 practical school/skills opportunity school classes, practical school/skills opportunity schools with the approval of the Director, may appoint school-based educational psychologists. While each psychologist may serve more than one practical school/skills opportunity school under a particular sponsor, he/she will be employed by and stationed at one of the schools and considered as a member of the non-teaching specialist staff of that school. Provision ratios for educational psychologists to be employed by practical schools/skills opportunity schools are as follows :

No. of Classes Operated by the Same Sponsor	Provisions of Psychologist(s)
30 - 59	1
60 - 99	2
100 - 139	3
140 - 179	4

(b)

School-based educational psychologists should, in general, be ranked at Educational Psychologist I level. When fully qualified educational psychologists are not available in the job market, a candidate without a Post Graduate Certificate in Education and 6 years' relevant experience may be appointed as EP II, should he/she meet the entry requirements for this rank.

Clerical Staff

Practical schools or skills opportunity schools may, with the approval of the Director, appoint clerical staff on the following scale :

Capacity at Full Development		No. of Clerical Staff
	up to 49		1 Clerical Assistant
	50 - 99		1 Clerk Class II
	100 - 149		1 Clerk Class II + 1 Clerical Assistant
	150 or more		2 Clerk Class IIs

Workshop Attendants

Practical schools or skills opportunity schools may, with the approval of the Director, appoint one workshop attendant for each approved workshop.

Janitor Staff

Practical schools or skills opportunity schools may, with the approval of the Director, appoint one janitor staff for every three classrooms or approved special rooms. Fractional staff will be rounded up after summation.

Motor Drivers

(a)

Practical schools or skills opportunity schools may, at the discretion of the Director, appoint motor drivers for registered school buses.

(b)

Drivers who are required to drive a registered school bus with 30 or more seats will be appointed as Special Drivers. Those who are assigned to drive registered school buses with fewer than 30 seats will be appointed as Motor Drivers.

BOARDING SECTION

All practical schools with an approved boarding section subvented by the Education Department may be provided with the following staff :

Wardens

One warden may, with the approval of the Director, be appointed at the rank of :

(a)

Social Work Officer for a boarding section with a capacity of more than 120 boarders; or

(b)

Chief Social Work Assistant or Assistant Social Work Officer for a boarding section with a capacity of 120 or fewer boarders.

Assistant Wardens

An assistant warden may, with the approval of the Director, be appointed at the rank of :

(a)

Assistant Social Work Officer for a boarding section with a capacity of more than 120 boarders; or

(b)

Senior Social Work Assistant for a boarding section with 60-120 boarders; or

(c)

Social Work Assistant for a boarding section with less than 60 boarders.

Boarding Service Masters/Mistresses I

Boarding Service Masters/Mistresses I may, with the approval of the Director, be appointed on the following scale :

Week-day ratio		Week-end & Sunday ratio (in addition to the week-day provision)
	1 for 60 boarders		0.5 for 60 or fewer boarders
			1 for 61-120 boarders
			1.5 for 121 or more boarders

Boarding Service Masters/Mistresses II

Boarding Service Masters/Mistresses II may, with the approval of the Director, be appointed on the following scale :

Week-day ratio		Week-end & Sunday ratio (in addition to the week-day provision)
	2 for 60 boarders	1 for 60 boarders

Clerical Assistants

1 clerical assistant may, with the approval of the Director, be appointed for each boarding section.

Cooks

Cooks may, with the approval of the Director, be appointed on the following scale:

Number of boarders		Number of cooks
	39 or less	2
	40 - 79	3
	80 or more	4

Watchmen

2 Watchmen may, with the approval of the Director, be appointed for each boarding section.

Janitor Staff

Janitor staff may, with the approval of the Director, be appointed on the following scale :

Week-day ratio	Week-end & Sunday ratio (in addition to the week-day provision)
1 for 100 boarders	0.6 for 100 or fewer boarders

Calculation of Part-time Staff for Boarding Service Masters/Mistresses I, Boarding Service Masters/Mistresses II & Janitor Staff

(a)

In calculating the number of staff, individual fractions of these three grades will be added together and the fraction resulting, if any, will be rounded up to the next whole number.

(b)

When fraction arises in either rank of boarding service master/mistress I and boarding service master/mistress II, it will be rounded up to the next whole number of boarding service master/mistress I; when fractions arise in both ranks of boarding service master/mistress I and boarding service master/mistress II, the fraction of boarding service master/mistress I will be rounded up and the fraction in boarding service master/mistress II will be rounded down.

(c)

The difference between the total number of the three grades calculated as per paragraph (a) above and the total number of boarding service master/mistress I and boarding service master/mistress II calculated as per paragraph (b) above is to be appointed as janitor staff.