弘立書院部份教師未註冊已偷步任教

poonseelai

So desperate for teachers?  As parents, how can we make sure school has complied with the required registration procedures?




《明報》今早報道每年學費高達18萬元的私立國際學校弘立書院，部份教師未註冊已偷步任教。教育局局長吳克儉今午回應時表示，教育局已向校方發出警告信，要求即時徹查事件。他又指教育局上周五已經與校方開會討論事件，引述校方承諾會檢討聘用教師程序。

吳克儉強調，維持優質教育是教育局一直以來的方針，學校必須確保所有教師，都符合教育條例要求。

DREAMER52

i don't think we should worry about this news too much. It is true that the teacher should not teach without a valid local license but they all have valid license overseas. but they submitted the application already but haven't got a feedback from the government to grant them a license.

slamai

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Not true.  Some even hadn't submitted their application when the incident exposed to the public.

cowmoon

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So do you have the insider information?

ANChan59

slamai 發表於 14-2-26 12:16
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Not true.  Some even hadn't submitted their application when the incident exp ...

That's not pure administrative error, that's system error.

cowmoon

ANChan59 發表於 14-2-26 14:20
That's not pure administrative error, that's system error.

That's what I heard from my IS teacher friends (non-ISF), who are actually quite sympathetic about the school and teachers. Even expatriate teachers with education degree from college like University of Toronto needed to get back and forth several times to successfully get registered. And that's the fact that they can only start the process when the teachers actually arrived at Hong Kong ... usually just a couple of weeks before the school year commencement.
Anyway, that's bureaucracy and schools should find ways to handle it better.

caa

cowmoon 發表於 14-2-26 15:40
That's what I heard from my IS teacher friends (non-ISF), who are actually quite sympathetic about  ...

Though there is inevitably some level of bureaucracy involved, checking of authenticity of qualifications claimed to be held by potential teachers is necessary. Fake certificates is not unheard of. All these "bureaucratic" procedures are meant to protect our kids who will be in the hands of someone you don't know at all

cowmoon

Agree that the school administration is the main party to blame. There are no similar problems heard in other schools before. Definitely everyone faces the same but why just this school made this mistake.

hedonist

原帖由 cowmoon 於 14-02-26 發表
Agree that the school administration is the main party to blame. There are no similar problems heard ...

Is there a public directory of teachers registered under EDB?  

Maybe ISF is an extreme case with double digit number of unregistered teachers, but some other IS may have the same issue, not as bad?

slamai

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Not insider information:
"教育局證實，該校十六名教師提交註冊申請表前「偷步」任教，已向該校發出警告信。"

http://www.edu-kingdom.com/forum.php?mod=redirect&goto=findpost&ptid=2756065&pid=38134723&fromuid=683961

musicien

I wonder if warning letter is too mild. Are the teachers allowed to continue teaching? How to avoid similar problems to happen again or is it also happening in other schools? A very big question mark?!i think isf was being 踢爆by press so how abt the other schools? V worrying and puzzled for parents!

cowmoon

slamai 發表於 14-2-27 00:21
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Not insider information:

Got it! Then it is 100% the fault of school administration - simply did not submit the application before the school commence.

金瑪姬

失禮！

ssant

原帖由 金瑪姬 於 14-03-03 發表
失禮！

Agreex2

noplanner

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If I were a student who is studying in any class of the teachers involved, I would rather like them to continue with the teaching, IMHO.

noplanner

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It is well known that they are not qualified - in Hong Kong - with EDB's systems. Yet, students and parents would also be in a position to tell - from their experience in the first two trimesters. Just my two cents!

(Edition, for the avoidance of doubt.)