Education Sector Investigations
What is an Education Sector Investigation?
An education sector investigation is an investigation into the education sector. This is predominately investigations in to private education providers such as Registered Training Organisations and privately funded schools.
Education sector investigations are similar in nature to corporate investigations.
Types of Education Sector investigations could include:
Company policy violations
Matters in the education sector involving repeated breaches of company policy or serious offences are considered significant and may trigger a corporate investigation to ensure compliance, accountability, and protection of organisational integrity
Employee theft
Employee theft is common in the workplace and particularly in the education sector, and may include vendor fraud, money laundering, embezzlement, accounting irregularities, misappropriation, and missing or stolen inventory
Sexual Harassment
Any unwelcome or unwanted behaviour of a sexual nature that causes a person to feel humiliated, intimidated, or offended is considered sexual harassment and is unacceptable in any workplace or environment
Intellectual property infringement
Intellectual property infringement could include the theft of intellectual property by staff or a third party. Theft of trade secrets, the theft of a corporate database of clients to be used by a disgruntled employee.
Criminal Matters
Any matters committed in the workplace either by the employee or employer could be a matter for an education sector investigation. Matters may include theft, assault, drug use, fraud and physical violence.
Inappropriate Teacher/Student relations
We have investigated through a number of different techniques the inappropriate relations that can occur between a teacher and a student. Investigations in this matter can look at both online behaviour .