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for schools to appoint non-graduate teachers to a few of their
graduate posts. Non-graduates do not normally teach beyond Form III,
except in the practical and cultural subjects, for which graduates are
relatively difficult to obtain (and to which schools are reluctant to
allocate their graduate posts). However, within the limits of their
overall establishment and the constraints of different details of post,
schools are encouraged to deploy teachers in accordance with their
particular strengths and weaknesses. - hence non-graduates capable of
teaching senior forms may do so if the principal so wishes and, similarly,
graduates may be deployed within reasonable and practicable limits in
junior forms: this is in keeping with the view that good teaching in the
junior school may prevent the necessity for a great deal of remedial
teaching later on.
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Graduates of approved post-secondary colleges entering teaching
6.36 Since a substantial proportion of diploma holders of the
approved post-secondary colleges enter the teaching profession, their
career prospects are a matter of great concern to the colleges.
the system formerly operated by the Baptist College (and still operated
by Shue Yan College) students normally completed their diploma course five years after completing Form/Middle V (i.e. they underwent a Middle
VI course before embarking upon the four-year diploma course): hence those
entering teaching did so with three years more of advanced studies than
those trained non-graduate teachers who had undergone a full-time two-year college of education course directly after completing Form/Middle V.
source of the concern is the fact that such diploma holders are employed as Certificated Masters/Mistresses and placed on a sub-point of the salary
scale, and that even when they become trained (by means of ICTT
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