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the approved post-secondary colleges registered under the Post Secondary
Colleges Ordinance (see paragraph 2.68 below) is a relatively simple
one.
For the purposes of the Ordinance the Director of Education is
required to keep a register of college teachers; and Regulation 2 states
that the minimum qualification of such teachers shall be a university
degree. Application for any person to be entered on the register of
teachers "shall be made to the Director by the President subject to the
approval of the College Council on the prescribed form." The Director
is empowered under section 12 of the Ordinance to exempt any College,
officer, teacher or student thereof from any of the provisions of any of
the Post Secondary College Regulations: hence, he may accept for
registration a non-graduate teacher if the circumstances appear to him
to justify this (for example, a college may wish to employ in its music
department a musician of proven practical talent but without a degree).
A point of interest is that while the Education Ordinance specifies an
approved degree of the University of Hong Kong or the Chinese University
of Hong Kong (or a qualification which in the opinion of the Director is
equivalent) among the qualifications for a registered teacher, the Post
Secondary Colleges Ordinance recognises any university degree as an
acceptable minimum qualification. In practice, however, the majority
of post-secondary college teachers are well qualified, many holding
recognised master's degrees or doctorates. No further account is taken
of post-secondary college teachers in this chapter.
C. POST-SCHOOL EDUCATI ON
2.54 Vocational educati on
Notwithstanding the bias towards technical
and practical education in secondary technical and prevocational schools,
no schools within the system are intended to prepare pupils for a
particular vocation.
Vocational education is provided outside the
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schools, at various levels and in various institutions principally:
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