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Question No. 6

Reply by the Hon. Michael Leung, JP, Director of Education, to a Legislative Council Question by the Hon. Mrs. Selina Chow, JP,

on 29 May 1985

Question :

Will Government inform this Council of the turnover rate in graduate teachers within the first three years of their employment, over the past five years?

Sir,

I am afraid I can provide the exact information sought

by Mrs. Chow only in respect of graduate teachers in government

secondary schools for the previous two school years. Of those

who had taught for three years or less, in 1982/83 only 6 out of

94 (or 6.4%) and in 1983/84, only 3 out of 90 (or 3.3%) resigned

or transferred to another government department.

As for graduate teachers in aided and private secondary

schools, we only have information on the percentages of those

teachers, by age bracket and not by length of teaching experience,

who left the teaching profession or transferred to another school

in the 1981/82 and 1982/83 school years. The information for the

1983/84 school year is not yet available.

The age bracket closest to the group referred to by

Mrs. Chow is 24 or below. In 1981/82, 9.9% of the aided secondary

school graduate teachers in this age bracket left the teaching

profession while another 5.9% transferred to another school. In

1982/83 the corresponding percentages were 7.3% and 5.2% respectively.

As for private secondary school graduate teachers in the

same age bracket, in 1981/82, 15.3% left the teaching profession

while another 17.1% transferred to another school. The

corresponding percentages for 1982/83 were 21.6% and 6.5%

respectively.