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territory. (At present only three colleges are registered under the
Post-Secondary Colleges Ordinance and in keeping with their status, the
Ordinance permits them a very considerable degree of independence.)
The Director's role, with the help of various advisory bodies, is to
superintend the educational needs of the community and to determine how
these needs can best be served. He is also responsible for maintaining
discipline and order in the control of educational activities, deriving
his authority and powers mainly from the Education Ordinance, which
includes detailed provisions for the registration and management of
schools, the registration of teachers, rights of appeal, the Director's
power to order attendance and the inspection of schools. The Education
Regulations are concerned in the main with school premises and structural
requirements, fire precautions, health and sanitation, discipline, fees
and collections, educational requirements for teachers, pupils' associations,
school management committees and supervisors, and other general matters.
3.10
Every school which comes within the ambit of the Education
Ordinance is required by the Ordinance to be managed by a Management
Committee, the prime responsibilities of which are to ensure that the
school is managed satisfactorily, that the education of the pupils is
promoted in a proper manner and that the Ordinance is complied with.
Under the Ordinance an intending manager is required to obtain approval
to be a manager and only when this has been obtained is he able to
apply for registration as the manager of a specified school. Any
application for registration of a school under the Ordinance must include
applications from approved managers for registration as managers of the
school and the applicant must recommend one of these to be the supervisor
of the school. Provided the requirements of the Ordinance are met, the
latter is normally approved by the Director of Education both as a
registered manager and as the school supervisor, and thereafter all