OZschwitz: poLICE checks net 500 teachers who committed crimes

POLICE checks taken last year detected more than 500 teachers who had committed crimes — but each one was allowed to remain in the classroom.

Documents tabled in State Parliament yesterday revealed that over the past financial year 552 teachers had been discovered with records for crimes such as theft, drug possession, assault, or driving offences — a massive jump from only 70 teachers the year before.

But the state's teaching watchdog yesterday admitted that all teachers — other than those who had committed serious sex crimes — had been allowed to stay in the profession, because the offences either dated back years or were not deemed serious enough to warrant any action.

"The indictable offences were either quite old or no penalty was imposed by the courts," said Andrew Ius, chief executive of the Victorian Institute of Teaching.

"There was nothing in any of the cases that we felt would detract from the person being a suitable teacher."

The figures were contained in the institute's annual report.

Mr Ius told The Age that the large jump this year was the result of almost 47,000 teachers being required to undertake a police check in order to renew their registration, which is mandatory every five years.

In previous years, the institute only discovered past offences "randomly", for instance if the police had brought a matter to its attention or it had learnt about it during disciplinary hearings.

Opposition education spokesman Martin Dixon questioned how many other teachers had slipped through the net by not being regularly checked.

■The proportion of year 12 students taking science subjects plunged over the past three decades, according to a new report commissioned by the Rudd Government.

Biology was hardest hit, losing more than half of its students over 30 years, according to the report prepared by the Australian Council of Education Research.

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OZschwitz: poLICE checks net 500 teachers who committed crimes

OZschwitz: poLICE checks net 500 teachers who committed crimes

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