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CHAPTER 10
GRADES WITH STUDENT RANKS
Scope
10.1
This chapter contains proposals for grades whose basic entry ranks have been created to provide staff with training which is only available to a limited extent outside Government. At the end of the training period, staff are usually required to pass internal or external examinations which provide them with additional qualifications. Successful students are advanced to the first functional rank of the grade. In most cases the student rank forms a combined establishment with the first functional rank and no additional posts are required to accommodate successful students.
10.2
The
We have divided these grades into four groups. first three groups are based on the educational qualifications required for appointment to the student rank. These are :
Group I
Group II
: Grades for which the minimum educational
qualification required for entry to
the student rank is below school certificate.
: Grades for which the minimum educational qualification for entry to the student rank is school certificate. (The grades in this group are further divided having regard to the period of training required for appointment to the functional rank i.e. one year, two years, more than two but less than three years and three years.)
Group III: Grades for which the minimum educational qualification required is matriculation.
The fourth group, Group IV, consists of structurally related grades which are usually filled either by the appointment of serving civil servants or by direct entrants who have undergone specialist training courses outside Hong Kong. For example Dietitians may be appointed from Registered Nurses who have taken a course in dietetics. In effect the studentship is performed overseas and thus appointment is to the first functional rank in the grade.
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