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He noted that the promotion prospects of teachers had also been improved. They included:
creation of two posts of Principal Graduate Master in a secondary school with 15 or more classes to be offset by an equivalent number of Senior Graduate Master posts with effect from September 1991;
* upgrading of one Senior Assistant Master post in a secondary school with 24 or more classes to Principal Assistant Master with effect from September 1991;
upgrading of a maximum of two non-graduate posts in each secondary school to the graduate level and of a Graduate Master post to the Senior Graduate Master post in a school with 15 or more classes in September 1994; and
for primary schools, an improved senior teacher ratio from one Assistant Master (AM) for every four whole-day classes to one AM for every three whole-day classes and the upgrading of primary school teaching posts to graduate level by phases.
Turning to the provision of support service, the spokesman said a series of services were made available to teachers to enhance their skills in managing stress and difficulties.
They included a helpline service for school teachers, support at the Guidance Teacher Resource Centre, regional teachers' development sessions and Saturday Clinic Sessions for teachers at district education offices.
"In addition, the Education Department will join hands with the Hong Kong Medical Association to organise a stress management seminar for teachers in early May," the spokesman concluded.
End/Thursday, March 9, 1995