Staff Appointment, Promotion and Succession Planning

(1) Personnel Management

Staff Appointment, Promotion and Succession Planning
 (suggested learning time: approximately 25 minutes)

1. Does your school ensure that appropriately qualified staff are employed? Does the appointment comply with the requirements of the Education Ordinance, the Education Regulations, the Code of Aid, the Employment Ordinance, other local laws (such as anti-discrimination ordinances) and the circulars issued by the Education Bureau (EDB) from time to time?
2. Has your school checked the potential appointees’ teacher registration status, whether they have any criminal conviction record, whether they are involved in any ongoing criminal proceedings or investigations (including but not limited to arrest or apprehension by the police), or whether they were/are being investigated by schools or the EDB over professional misconduct allegations?  Has the school applied to the EDB for releasing information regarding the potential appointees’ teacher registration status and checked related information through the Sexual Conviction Record Check (SCRC) Scheme?  For appointment of teachers who have already left the teaching profession for one year or more, has the school required the potential appointees to declare whether they have been convicted of any criminal offence in Hong Kong or elsewhere and submitted the details to the EDB?
3. Does your school ensure that the criteria and procedures for the appointment and selection of staff are fair, open and transparent?

1. Please read paragraph 7.2 “Appointment, regrading, promotion and acting appointment” in Chapter 7 “Personnel Matters” of the School Administration Guide.
2. Please read Section 13.2 “Appointment of Staff Under Salaries Grant” of the Code of Aid for Aided Schools (Release 1.16).

3. Please read the EDB circulars related to staff appointment, promotion and succession arrangements such as the followings:
   

   • Education Bureau Circular No. 14/2023 - Measures for Strengthening the Protection of Students: Appointment of Teaching and Non-teaching Staff in Schools
   • Education Bureau Circular No. 11/2019 - An All-Graduate Teaching Force in Aided Schools
   • Education Bureau Circular No. 13/2022 - Requirement for Newly-appointed Teachers to Pass the Basic Law and National Security Law Test
   • Education Bureau Circular No. 6/2020 - Implementation of the Recommendations of the Task Force on Professional Development of Teachers
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