Transcript Teacher registration related matters

Enhancement Measures to
Facilitate Schools in Identifying
Teachers Committing Offence /
Misconduct Cases
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Public Concerns
 Extensive media coverage on teachers’
offence cases leading to public
concerns over:
 Some teachers who have committed
serious offences (e.g. sex offence) are still
serving in schools
 Whether there are appropriate measures to
protect students in schools
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Current Arrangements (1)
 Teacher registration as a means to safeguard the
interests of schools and students
 The Education Ordinance stipulates that any
person who teaches in a school has to be either a
registered teacher (RT) or a permitted teacher (PT)
 Teachers who are convicted of serious offences/
who committed an act of professional misconduct
will have their teacher registration cancelled, so as
to prevent those who are not fit and proper from
teaching in schools
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Current Arrangements（2）
 How can schools find out whether there is
problem on the teacher registration status of
newly appointed teachers?
 Privacy concerns
 e-Services function - if the school creates an
account for a person who was regarded not
fit and proper to serve as a teacher, the
system will generate a message to alert the
school concerned
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Important Notes
Schools
 Schools should request newly appointed teachers to
apply for teacher registration /apply for permission to
employ unregistered teachers prior to the teachers’
assumption of duties, otherwise
 it is a breach of law
 it may allow persons who are not fit and proper to serve as
teachers at schools, endangering the safety of students
 it may affect schools’ reputation if problems arise
 Schools should submit teacher registration
applications for newly appointed PT who have changed
from another schools（including NET）
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Enhancement Measures
EDB
 To monitor the teacher registration status of
serving teachers on e-Services
 If schools find the teacher registration
status of proposed teachers doubtful, they
may request the proposed teachers to
apply to this Bureau for release of their
registration information to the schools
concerned, upon their consent
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Specimen of Application Form
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Enquiries
Teacher Registration Team
 Address: Unit 302, 3/F, 113 Argyle Street,
Mongkok, Kowloon
 Tel.: 2520 0391/ 2520 0365/ 2520 0356
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