Appendix 10
Conditions for Promotion and Acting Appointment
(Please read in conjunction with:
EDBC49/99 Promotion of Laboratory Technicians;

EDBC30/2000 Promotion, Acting Appointment, Regrading of teachers/Specialists and Passage over Efficiency Bar of Specialist Staff in Aided Schools; and
EDBC37/2001 English Language Proficiency Requirement for Filling English Panel Chair Posts in Aided Secondary Schools.)

 
A. PROMOTION
  1. General
    All promotions are subject to the approval of the Director and the following common conditions :
   
(a)
 With the exception of the ranks of Laboratory Technician III and II and Educational Psychologist II and I which have a combined establishment, a vacancy must exist in the higher rank to which a candidate is recommended for promotion.
   
(b)
 The candidate must be recommended by the Principal with the agreement of the Management Committee. In the case of promotion to the School Head rank, the candidate must be recommended by the School Management Committee.
   
(c)
 The candidate must be satisfactorily reported upon by the Services Division/Advisory Inspectorate Division.
   
(d)
 The candidate must have undertaken training(s) specified by or acceptable to the Director.
   
(e)
 Nominations for promotion must be submitted six months before proposed effective dates to ensure sufficient time to arrange the inspections of the nominated teachers. Late submissions will not be considered unless there are very special reasons and in no case will any nominations be approved retrospectively for salaries grant purpose.
   
(f)
 Teachers nominated for promotion in September must complete/acquire the specified training in the same academic year. Those nominated after September may complete/ acquire the training in the following academic year if they cannot be accommodated in the specified training courses in the same academic year. If for no acceptable reasons a teacher approved to act in the promotion post fails to complete the required training within the prescribed period, the School Management Committee should make alternative appointment for the promotion post.
  2.
Certificated Master/Mistress to Assistant Master/Mistress
    Please see Guides to Appointment. (Appendix 5/Attachment H)
  3.
Assistant Master/Mistress to Senior Assistant Master/Mistress
    Please see Guides to Appointment. (Appendix 5/Attachment G)
  4. Senior Assistant Master/Mistress to Principal Assistant Master/ Mistress
   
Please see Guides to Appointment. (Appendix 5/Attachment F)
  5.
Graduate Master/Mistress to Senior Graduate Master/Mistress
   
Please see Guides to Appointment. (Appendix 5/Attachment D)
  6.
Senior Graduate Master/Mistress to Principal Graduate Master/Mistress/ Principal II
   

Please see Guides to Appointment. (Appendix 5/Attachment C)
  7.
Principal Graduate Master/Mistress to Principal II
   

Please see Guides to Appointment. (Appendix 5/Attachment B)
  8.
Certificated Master/Mistress (Workshop Teacher) to Assistant Master/Mistress (Workshop Teacher)
   

Please see Guides to Appointment. (Appendix 5/Attachment I)
  9.
Educational Psychologist II to Educational Psychologist I
   

Please see Guides to Appointment. (Appendix 5/Attachment J)
  10.
Laboratory Technician III to Laboratory Technician II
   
Laboratory Technicians III will be eligible for consideration for promotion to Laboratory Technician II on having :
   
(a) been confirmed to the permanent establishment and completed 3 years' satisfactory service;
(b) served for one year on the 3rd point of the salary scale;
(c) obtained an approved Laboratory Technician Certificate or equivalent; and
(d) obtained a valid and approved First Aid Certificate, if the Certificate in (c) above does not contain first aid training as one of its course components.
  11.
Laboratory Technician II to Laboratory Technician I
    Laboratory Technicians II will be eligible for consideration for promotion to Laboratory Technicians I provided that they have at least five years of satisfactory service as Laboratory Technicians II. It should be noted, however, that posts of Laboratory Technicians I will only be established in practical schools/skills opportunity schools with five or more laboratories, and at the discretion of the Director.
  12. Assistant Warden to Warden
    Assistant Wardens at the Assistant Social Work Officer level for boarding sections with a capacity of 120 or more boarders may be considered for promotion to Wardens at the Social Work Officer level if they have three years' recognised post-qualification experience. Assistant Wardens at the Senior Social Work Assistant level for boarding sections with 60-120 boarders may be considered for promotion to Wardens at the Chief Social Work Assistant level if they have five years' recognised post-qualification experience.
  13. Boarding Service Master/Mistress I to Assistant Warden
    Boarding Service Masters/Mistresses I with five years' recognised post-qualification experience may be considered for promotion to Assistant Wardens at the Senior Social Work Assistant level for boarding sections with a capacity of 60-120 boarders. For boarding sections with a capacity of less than 60 boarders, one of the Boarding Service Masters/Mistresses I may, with the approval of the Director, be assigned as Assistant Warden at the Social Work Assistant level and be granted a responsibility allowance equivalent to two additional increments above the substantive pay of the Assistant Warden on the Social Work Assistant scale.
B. ACTING APPOINTMENTS
  Full-time Graduate Masters/Mistresses may be recommended for appointment to vacant promotion-grade posts in the rank of Senior Graduate Masters/Mistresses on an acting basis and the following rules will apply to all acting appointments :
  (a) The periods of acting will normally be for one year, or until the teacher becomes fully qualified, whichever is the longer;
  (b) Before the end of an acting period, the teacher should normally be recommended either for substantive promotion to the higher post or for reversion to his former post;
  (c) Shorter periods of acting (not less than six months) and longer periods of acting (not more than two years) may be recommended, where there are good reasons for doing so, and will be considered. However, extensions of acting beyond two years will not normally be approved unless there are very special circumstances to warrant such an extension (for example, that the teacher is still not fully qualified).