Appendix 5/Attachment B
Guides to Appointment Aided Practical Schools/Skills Opportunity Schools
Principal Graduate Master/Mistress
(Please read in conjunction with: EDBC31/2000 Implementation of Revised Starting Salaries for Staff in Aided Schools; and EDBC1/2002 Arrangements for Salary Matters for Teachers in Aided Schools.)
(For information : This document is not part of any agreement of service)
1.	Qualifications and Experience for Appointment :	(a)	Normally - Promotion
			Promotion rank for Senior Graduate Masters/ Mistresses.
		(b)	Exceptionally - Direct Entry
			Candidates should have fulfilled all requirements for normal promotion to this rank. The Director may require the School Management Committee to submit justifications for the exceptional nature of the proposed promotion/appointment for which the Director will have discretion either to approve or reject having regard to the special circumstances.
2.	Duties:	(a)	Principal of a practical school/skills opportunity school with less than 15 classes; or
		(b)	Deputy Head of a practical school/skills opportunity school with 15 classes or above.
3.	Salary Scale:		MPS Point 38 - Point 41
4.	Promotion Prospects :		Principal II
			Principal Graduate Masters/Mistresses will be eligible for consideration for promotion to Principals II provided that they have undertaken training in secondary school administration/management specified by or acceptable to the Director.
5.	Any Other Remarks :		As the salary scale of a Principal Graduate Master/Mistress overlaps that of a Principal II (MPS Pt 40 - 44), the promotees' salary scale and incremental date will be determined as follows :
			(a) if their pay before promotion is less than the minimum of the pay scale of the new higher office by more than one point, they will enter at the minimum and their new incremental date will be determined by the date of their promotion; (b) if their pay before promotion is less than the minimum of the pay scale of the new higher office by not more than one point, they will enter at the minimum and retain their existing incremental date; (c) if their pay before promotion is not less than the minimum of the pay scale of the new higher office and subject to the maximum point of the new scale not being exceeded, they will enter the new scale at the point which is next above their pay and retain their existing incremental date; and (d) if the promotees are already receiving the maximum pay of their former office at the date of promotion, they will enter the new scale at the point next above their pay and their new incremental date will be determined by the date of promotion.