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government schools: they may employ, for example, teachers with
certain specified "non-standard" qualifications such as a Diploma
issued by an approved post-secondary college (q.v.). (A distinction
needs to be drawn here between the legally-prescribed qualifications
for registered or permitted teacher status and the qualifications
prescribed for employment in different categories of public-sector
schools. Thus, some registered teachers are not employed in
government schools under current policy: this includes non-graduates
without teacher-training qualifications and Qualified Teachers, who
by definition are former permitted teachers who have acquired this
status by successfully completing an In-Service Course of Training
(ICTT) in a government college of education.)
2.44 Teacher-training
Teacher training courses are provided at
the graduate level by the two universities.
Non-graduate teachers
are trained in three colleges of education (Northcote, Grantham and
Sir Robert Black) and the Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College (TTC),
under the administration of the Education Department. In-service
courses are provided by the universities and the Education Department
(through the colleges and TTC, the Advisory Inspectorate and the
Adult Education Section).
detail in chapter 6.
2.45 Untrained teachers
Teacher education is discussed in more
Because the Second Schedule of the
Education Ordinance lists, as one of the qualifications for a
registered teacher, an approved degree of either local university
and three years' approved teaching experience, graduates entering
teaching with no more than this qualification are registered as
permitted teachers until such time as their teaching experience
qualifies them for registered teacher status. Apart from this group,
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