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 that breach company policy violations repeatedly and/or  of a serious offence, constitute a corporate investigation

Employee theft

It is common in the workplace and extremely common in the education sector to have employee theft. This theft could include matters such as Vendor fraud, Money laundering, Embezzlement, Accounting irregularities and violations, Misappropriation and Missing inventory,

Sexual Harassment

Any unwanted or unwelcome behaviour of a sexual nature causing someone to feel humiliated, intimidated or offended is a form of sexual harassment.

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 and physical behaviour.