Question No. 6
Reply by the Hon. Michael Leung, JP, Director of Education, to a Legislative Council Question by the Hon. Mrs. Selina Chow, JP,
on 29 May 1985
Question :
Will Government inform this Council of the turnover rate in graduate teachers within the first three years of their employment, over the past five years?
Sir,
I am afraid I can provide the exact information sought
by Mrs. Chow only in respect of graduate teachers in government
secondary schools for the previous two school years. Of those
who had taught for three years or less, in 1982/83 only 6 out of
94 (or 6.4%) and in 1983/84, only 3 out of 90 (or 3.3%) resigned
or transferred to another government department.
As for graduate teachers in aided and private secondary
schools, we only have information on the percentages of those
teachers, by age bracket and not by length of teaching experience,
who left the teaching profession or transferred to another school
in the 1981/82 and 1982/83 school years. The information for the
1983/84 school year is not yet available.
The age bracket closest to the group referred to by
Mrs. Chow is 24 or below. In 1981/82, 9.9% of the aided secondary
school graduate teachers in this age bracket left the teaching
profession while another 5.9% transferred to another school. In
1982/83 the corresponding percentages were 7.3% and 5.2% respectively.
As for private secondary school graduate teachers in the
same age bracket, in 1981/82, 15.3% left the teaching profession
while another 17.1% transferred to another school. The
corresponding percentages for 1982/83 were 21.6% and 6.5%
respectively.