1. How does the school identify if a teacher/principal is a newly-appointed teacher and needs to meet the BLNST requirement?

Starting from the 2023/24 school year, the following newly-appointed teachers in public sector schools, Direct Subsidy Scheme Schools (DSS Schools), kindergartens joining the Kindergarten Education Scheme (Scheme-KGs) are required to fulfill the BLNST requirement:  

In general, newly-appointed teachers include newly-joined teachers and teachers changing schools:

(i)Newly-appointed teachers in public sector schools include:

➢Regular teachers remunerated with Salaries Grant;

➢Teachers remunerated with cash grant;

➢Teachers remunerated with Salaries Grant and cash grant simultaneously;

➢Teachers remunerated with cash grant switching to (i) teachers remunerated with Salaries Grant or (ii) teachers remunerated with Salaries Grant and cash grant simultaneously in the same public sector school;

➢Monthly-paid temporary teachers switching to (i) regular teachers, (ii) teachers remunerated with Salaries Grant and cash grant simultaneously or (iii) teachers remunerated with cash grant in the same public sector school; and

➢Monthly-paid temporary teachers (including those filling temporary vacancies of teaching posts within staff establishment or serving for more than 90 days and are approved by schools switching from daily-rated to monthly-paid temporary teachers).

(ii)Newly-appointed teachers in DSS schools and Scheme-KGs refer to all newly-appointed monthly-paid teachers.

Please refer to EDBC13/2022 and Question 2 of Frequently Asked Questions which have been uploaded on the EDB webpage (https://www.edb.gov.hk/en/blnst).

Questions in the same category:

1.How does the school identify if a teacher/principal is a newly-appointed teacher and needs to meet the BLNST requirement?

2.Which newly-appointed teachers are not required to meet the BLNST requirement?

3.How does the school verify the BLNST result submitted by teachers/principals?

4.How does the school submit the teachers’ or the principal’s verified BLNST result to EDB?

5.How does the school export the submitted teacher list as excel file?

6.How does the school recall the teacher list after submitting to the EDB?