An acting assistant principal at Delia School of Canada, who took up the post after the controversial sacking of his predecessor, does not have a work visa, the school admitted yesterday.
However, the school insists that Bob Haines - a senior educator from Nova Scotia in Canada, who arrived in Hong Kong days after the sackings of John and Vaughan Blaney - is a consultant and is not employed full-time.
The school sent a letter to parents on June 14 announcing that Mr Haines was acting assistant principal of its elementary section.
The school sacked Vaughan Blaney, deputy principal at its Taikoo Shing campus and his brother John Blaney, assistant principal at its Kowloon Tong campus, with immediate effect earlier this month. The Blaneys claim they were fired after they questioned the school's financial management. The school says they were dismissed due to an administrative reorganisation.
Executive director Peter Lee Chiu-chung said: '[Mr Haines] was appointed on June 14 after he arrived in Hong Kong and since that time he has been working for the school as a consultant.
'We have applied for a working visa to the Immigration Department, and we will be applying to have him registered with the Education and Manpower Bureau. I don't know whether he has been signing students' diplomas and certificates.