Can you afford to hire an unqualified teacher or one day the parents tell you that the teacher you hired did not attend the university claimed on their CV? This is exactly why degree verification is essential.
Obtaining information via reference check no matter if its professional references or personal references have been the given norm as part of the background check process.
Obtaining a certificate of no criminal record/police clearance certificate has been a norm for many schools when it comes to criminal record check. One of the key issues however is that due to Covin-19, many embassy or authorities are not providing such services as very often the job candidate needs to physically attend those places to complete the process or they are simply closed.