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C.A. No. 393-5.
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The Appointment of three Assistant Mistresses to the Education Department of Hong Kong.
1. The Secretary of State for the Colonies requires three assistant mistresses for the Education Department, Hong Kong,
2. Candidates who are between 25 and 30 years of age will be preferred.
3. All the mistresses are required to possess qualifications such as the Cambridge Teachers' Certificate or the Oxford or London University Diploma and one of them should be qualified to teach kindergarten subjects.
Each mistress is required to be able to teach arithmetic, religious knowledge, history, English language and literature and geography up to the standard of the senior Oxford local examination and also two subjects of each of the following groups of subjects: Group I., French, sewing, Swedish drill; Group II., music (piano), domestic economy, drawing, German, Latin.
4. The engagement will be in the first instance for three years, and if at the end of the time their service has been satisfactory the Assistant Mistresses will be placed, if mutually agreed, on the pensionable establishment of the Colony.
5. A salary at the rate of 2001. for each of the three years of the engagement will be paid to the assistant mistresses, and subject to the permission of the Director of Education they may undertake private tuition. Half salary will be paid from the date of embarkation from England and full salary from the date of arrival in the Colony. If an Assistant Mistress is placed on the pensionable establishment her salary will be at the rate of 2301. a year.
The currency of Hong Kong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of payments in the Colony, salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars as regards 80 per cent. at the rate of 18. 9d. to the dollar and as regards 20 per cent. at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the 15th of the month for which salary is to be paid.
6. One of the vacant appointments carries with it partly furnished quarters at the Peak as soon as the Peak school is built, and meanwhile in lieu thereof an allowance of 600 dollars a year. The resident appointment will be given to the Mistress who possesses Kindergarten in addition to other qualifications.
7. The Mistresses are required to teach English children (girls and young boys) in combined elementary and secondary schools. Mistresses are liable to be transferred to schools where similar instruction is given to Chinese girls, but such transfers
are rare.
8. Second-class passage by P. & O. mail steamer or first-class passage by a steamer other than a mail steamer is provided, and also a return passage at the end of three years if the engagement is not renewed for other reasons than misconduct.
A return passage will also be provided before the expiration of three years if an Assistant Mistress is incapacitated from further service by mental or physical disability.
9. Candidates who wish to be considered for this post should submit their applications as soon as possible in covers marked "C.A." to the Secretary, Board of Education, Whitehall, London, 8.W. Scottish candidates should apply to the Secretary, Scotch Education Department, Whitehall, London, S.W.
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