EDED20293  Legal Aspects of School Management

What we should do, in a moral sense, is often quite different from what we are legally required to do and both are very different from what we can get away with. Teachers and administrators in educational institutions are now regulated by an increasing amount of legislation imposing duties and sometimes creating rights. Students, parents and other stakeholders in the educational enterprise are becoming better informed about their legal rights and more willing to insist that these rights are respected. This puts educational managers at a disadvantage if they do not know what their own legal position is with respect to their clients.