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Composition of Incorporated Management Committee

 chart

 

Composition of IMC

Number

Alternate Manager

Sponsoring Body Manager

Maximum 60% * of the Maximum number of all managers 

Not more than one

School Principal

Ex-officio manager

Not applicable

Teacher Manager

Not less than one

One (where the constitution allows the nomination of not more than one teacher manager)

Parent Manager

Not less than one

One (where the constitution allows the nomination of not more than one parent manager)

Alumni Manager

One or more (where manager(s) is nominated)

Not applicable

Independent Manager

Not less than one

Not applicable

 

(*In calculating the maximum number of sponsoring body managers, all alternate managers shall not be counted.)

 

 

Manager Election :

 

Categories of managers set out in s. 40AL 

must be elected

The manner in which the manager concerned is elected for nomination

Alternate Manager

Exemption from composition requirements

(Section 40AR)

Related Provision

 

Sponsoring Body Manager

 

×

- Nominated by the sponsoring body subject to the constitution of IMC

×

 

 S. 40AM 

 

 

School Principal

 

×

(ex-officio manager)

×

×

 

S. 40AL (2)(b)

 

 

Teacher Manager

 

 

 

- Voting by secret ballot

- All teachers have equal right of candidature

- All teachers have equal voting right

The first teacher manager of planned school:

nominated for registration within one year from the establishment of IMC

 

S. 40AN

 

 

Parent Manager

 

 

 

- Election conducted by the recognized parent-teacher association

- Voting by secret ballot

- All parents have equal right of candidature

- All parents have equal voting right

 

The first parent manager of planned school:nominated for registration within three years from the establishment of IMC

The first parent manager of operating school:nominated for registration within three months from the establishment of IMC

 

S. 40AO

 

 

Alumni Manager

 

 

 

-Election conducted by the recognized alumni association

or 

-Nominated by IMC subject to its constitution (If no person is nominated by the recognized alumni association)

×

 ×

 

S. 40AP 

 

 

Independent Manager

 

 

×

 

- Nominated by IMC subject to its constitution

×

The first independent manager:

nominated for registration within one year from the establishment of IMC 

 

S. 40AQ 

 

 

To help schools develop a fair and transparent election system to elect representatives to be school managers, Education Bureau has prepared different manager election guides for the reference of different groups of school stakeholders.

 

Download : Guide for Teacher Manager Election (as at 31/10/2014) PDF (156 KB)
Download : Guide for Parent Manager Election (as at 31/10/2014) PDF (291 KB)
Download : Guide for Alumni Manager Election (as at 22/9/2023) PDF (286 KB)

 

 
1.
Question:Is there any upper or lower limit in respect of the total number of members of the IMC?
2.
Question:Can a non-school sponsoring body (SSB) member serve as an SSB manager?
3.
Question:Is there any difference in terms of legal liabilities between a manager and an alternate manager of an IMC?
4.
Question:Can any person aged over 70 serve as an alternate manager? Can the IMC on which he/she serves ask him/her to leave a meeting?
5.
Question:Can an alternate manager vote when the manager is present at the meeting? If a manager leaves the meeting because of conflict of interests, can the alternate manager exercise his/her vote?