Appendix A
A Summary of the
Review of Education Department
Salaries and Terms of Service, 1963-1969
with notes showing how it has departed from the standards of equitable staff relations which should be binding on a good employer such as the Hong Kong Government.
1. March 1963
2.
Appointment of the Marsh-Sampson Education Commission
Note:
(i) There was no mention of a review of teachers' salaries or other
terms of service in the Commission's Terms of Reference. (ii) The Commissioners (two Hampshire County Council local government
officers) were unqualified to make salary recommendations affecting a large section of the Hong Kong Civil Service. (iii) There was no consultation with Staff Associations over selection of Commissioners or definition of their Terms of Reference. (iv) There was no consultation with government teachers or Staff
Associations during the course of the Commission.
October 1963
Publication of the Marsh-Sampson Report which embodied recommendations for sweeping changes in Education Department salary structure, salary levels and relativities, and conditions of service::
Main Recommendations
Note:
(i) The formation of a United Kingdom local government-type education
service within the Hong Kong Education Department, embodying an administrative service and a teaching service employed on different terms.
(ii) The formation of a fong Kong "teaching service" lumping together
government and aided teachers on common salary scales and terms of service, regardless of the different methods of recruitment, promotion etc. operating in the government and aided sectors of Hong Kong education.
3. January 1964
There was no consultation with government teachers or Staff Associations over these recommendations.
Appointment of a Working Party to consider the Marsh-Sampson Report.
Note:
(i) Government teachers and Staff Associations were not represented on
this Working Party.
(ii) Other interested parties were represented on the Working Party, i.e. aided church schools, private church schools, private profit-making schools.
(iii) The proposals put to the Working Party by Government were not seen
by Staff Associations.
4. March 1965
Appointment of Salaries Commission.
Note:
Ref. Terms of Reference, Section I: "to consider and make recommendations on the general level of salaries of the main groups of employees in the public service ..", the salaries of Education Department personnel (largest group of employees) were excluded on the grounds that they were under consideration in another context: i.e. the Working Party proposals (unknown at that stage).
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