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Day schools and education organisations have been invited to nominate candidates for the seventh election of the Council on Professional Conduct in Education (CPC).
"Each day school may nominate one serving regular registered teacher, including school head, to stand for election," a spokesman for the Education and Manpower Bureau (EMB) said today (January 6).
"Teachers may also run for election as independent candidates if they have the support of 60 serving teachers in the same type of school.
"Education organisations approved to join the Hong Kong Teachers' Centre as an organisation-member have been invited to make nominations," the spokesman said.
The CPC has 28 seats in three categories - the organisation-nominated category (11), the teacher-nominated category (14) and members appointed by the Permanent Secretary for Education and Manpower (3). Candidates elected to the CPC will serve a two-year term from May, 2006, to April, 2008.
Nominations should reach the bureau not later than noon on March 7, 2006, and voting for teacher-nominated category will be held on April 25, 2006.
The bureau called on teachers, schools and education organisations to participate in the forthcoming election campaign.
Enquiries about the election can be made by telephone (2562 0354), by e-mail (spdocpc@emb.gov.hk) or by mail to Room 213, 2/F, Hong Kong Teachers' Centre, 4 Pak Fuk Road, North Point, Hong Kong.
The CPC was set up in April, 1994, following the recommendation of the Education Commission in its Report No.5.
Its terms of reference are:
* To advise the Government on measures to promote professional conduct in education;
* To draft operational criteria defining the conduct expected of educators and to gain widespread acceptance of these criteria among all sectors of the education community; and
* To advise the Permanent Secretary for Education and Manpower in case of disputes or alleged professional misconduct involving educators.
Ends/Friday, January 6, 2006
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