China’s education ministry has instructed schools and universities to check whether new teachers have a history of sex crimes, local media reported Friday.
During the recruitment process, primary and secondary schools must submit an application to local education authorities to audit the national teacher management system to confirm whether teachers are “blacklisted” or have committed sexual crimes in the past, according to the official Anglophone China daily.
Universities, in turn, will have to carry out the checks themselves.
The ministry recently required education authorities and universities not to violate applicants’ privacy during the verification process, the paper reported.
The Supreme People’s Court, China’s highest judicial body, and the Ministry of Education released a series of guidelines last November, including lifelong bans from employment in the education sector for people convicted of crimes such as kidnapping, assault, abuse or other violent acts. crimes.
Source: DN
