Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching has criticised the Education Ministry's move to transfer teachers accused of sex offence from one school to another.

She said while the notion of innocent until proven guilty stands, it was best such individuals are not allowed to come in close contact to students pending investigations.

Simply moving them from one school to another does not keep children safe, Teo added.

"As a precautionary measure, isn't it better to put the teacher in a district or state education office pending investigation?

"Why expose the other kids to unnecessary and avoidable risk?" she said in a statement today.

Teo was not satisfied with Education Minister Mahdzir Khalid's parliamentary written reply that a teacher who was accused of molesting nine students was only transferred to another school and placed under observation.

Mahdzir said disciplinary action would be taken once a court ruling had been made.

Teo raised the question after parents of children in a school in Hulu Selangor had made complaints against the teacher.

She pointed out that Deputy Education Minister P Kamalanathan had two weeks ago given a similar answer on a school headmaster in Sandakan who was found sharing pornographic content with students on a WhatsApp group.

"I do not understand the rationale behind these decisions.

"Someone unfit to be a headmaster or teacher in school A, is also unfit to be a headmaster or teacher in school B," she added.

Teo said such a move would only cause concern to parents of children at the school where the individual had been transferred to.

"A total of 15 reports of teachers molesting students were made between 2010 and October this year. However I believe this is only a tip of the iceberg.

"How many of these teachers were charged and sentenced eventually?

"School should be a safe place for all children. We do not want another Richard Huckle in Malaysia," he said.

Huckle, a UK citizen, was in June convicted of 71 counts of sexual assault against children while posing as a teacher in Malaysia.

The UK court slapped him with 22 life sentences.