Appendix 5/Attachment H
Guides to Appointment
Aided Practical School/Skills Opportunity Schools

Certificated 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) Teacher's Certificate from the Hong Kong Institute of Education obtained after a three-year full-time training course, or an equivalent qualification; or
    (b) Technical Teacher's Certificate obtained after a three-year full-time technical teacher training course, or an equivalent qualification; or
    (c) Higher Diploma/Certificate*, or equivalent qualification, plus one year's relevant post-qualification working experience; or
    (d) Diploma* or equivalent qualification, plus either:
     
(i) one year's relevant post-qualification working experience and one year of full-time (or two years of part-time) technical teacher training; or
(ii) 2 years' relevant post-qualification working experience; or
    (e) Secretarial or commercial certificate*, or equivalent qualification, plus either :
     
(i) 1 year's relevant post-qualification working experience and one year of full-time (or two years of part-time) technical teacher training; or
(ii) 2 years' relevant post-qualification working experience.
      * Obtained from a local university or a technical institute
    (f) A qualification other than (a) to (e) above, acceptable to the Director.
2. Duties: (a)

Class teaching in a practical school/skills opportunity school; and
    (b) (b) Where necessary, other related duties as considered appropriate.
3. Salary Scale:

Basic scale

    MPS Point 14 - Point 24
   
Note : A salary bar is at MPS Point 19 beyond which untrained teachers appointed on or after 1 January 1991 will not be allowed to proceed.
4. Period of Probation Two years
5. Promotion Prospects : Assistant Master/Mistress
    Certificated Masters/Mistresses possessing a Teacher's Certificate or an equivalent qualification and who have successfully completed a course of training in special education recognised by the Director will be eligible for consideration for promotion to Assistant Masters/ Mistresses if they have :
   
(a) (i) a Teacher's Certificate; or
  (ii) equivalent qualifications
(b) (i) five years satisfactory and acceptable experience as a teacher or headmaster/ headmistress in a government or aided secondary school or, since 1 January 1966 in an assisted private secondary school; or
  (ii) five years satisfactory and acceptable experience as a teacher or headmaster/ headmistress in a government or aided secondary or primary school, or since 1 January 1966, in an assisted private secondary school, of which the last two years must be in the nominating aided practical school/skills opportunity school;
and have undertaken training course(s) specified by or acceptable to the Director.
6. Any Other Remarks :
(a) Direct entrants who have completed two years of continuous full-time teacher training (acquired prior to 1982) at a College of Education/Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College will enter the scale at the sub-point.
(b) Direct entrants with the qualifications at 1(d) will enter the scale at the second point.
(c) Direct entrants with acceptable qualifications under 1(f) will be appointed to a point, or sub-point, of the scale considered appropriate by the Director.
(d) Direct entrants having approved teaching/ practical experience in excess of that required for appointment may be awarded increments in the basic scale at the discretion of the Director.
(e) Serving Certificated Masters/Mistresses who are appointed under 1(c), 1(d)(ii) or 1(e)(ii) and who have successfully undertaken a two-year part-time technical teacher training course at the Hong Kong Institute of Education or a Technical Institute may be awarded an additional increment if they are not already at the top of the basic scale.
(f) Serving Certificated Masters/Mistresses who are appointed under 1(f) at a sub-point of the scale without teacher training and who have successfully undertaken a part-time In-service Course of Teacher Training or Post-Graduate Certificate in Education may be awarded an additional increment if they are not already at the top of the basic scale.
(g) Certificated Masters/Mistresses not possessing teacher training or an equivalent qualification but appointed prior to 1 January 1991 will be eligible for consideration for promotion to Assistant Masters/Mistresses provided that they have undertaken training course(s) specified by or acceptable to the Director.