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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