“The payout was the largest given to teachers last year. It was secured by the Nation Union of Teachers after the employee, from the South West, was left with chronic pain and forced to quit his job.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Teachers won record amounts of compensation last year after suffering accidents, injuries or assaults at school, figures show.”
The Guardian, 29th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A music teacher at one of the UK’s most prestigious music schools has been jailed for six years after being found guilty of sexually abusing a pupil.”
The Guardian, 26th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former senior teacher at a Suffolk private school has been jailed for
possessing more than 40,000 indecent images of children.”
BBC News, 15th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A piano teacher from Milton Keynes who groomed a young pupil by exchanging explicit phone photographs with her has been jailed for 22 months.”
BBC News, 18th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A flying instructor whose student died in a helicopter crash has been found guilty of lying to get him a licence.”
BBC News, 9th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A school teaching assistant who had sex with teenage pupils after grooming them on Facebook and sending them indecent text messages has been jailed.”
BBC News, 3rd December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A ‘pathological liar’ who forged qualifications to get a job as a teacher has been jailed for 18 months.”
BBC News, 29th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two drama teachers were sacked for letting GCSE students perform in a play involving depictions of rape and child abuse.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“It is now possible to report that school teacher Jeremy Forrest appeared in court on child abduction charges, after a magistrate court relaxed an unusual court order that had prevented the defendant from being named.”
The Guardian, 18th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Science teacher Patricia Davies has been granted permission to take her case to the Appeal Court six years after she was sacked for allegedly simulating a sex act in class.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A music teacher has been banned from the classroom after lying that she had cancer and providing a false medical report in order to have time off.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Maths teacher Jeremy Forrest, who disappeared with one of his 15-year-old pupils, might not have been identified to the public under controversial laws that come into force next week.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A religious teacher at a Lancashire mosque who admitted using torture techniques on four children has been given a suspended sentence.”
BBC News, 7th September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Schools will be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff that wilfully fail to use stories or textbooks promoting same-sex weddings, it is claimed. Aidan O’Neill, a senior QC and expert on religious freedom and human rights, also warned that parents who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will have no right to withdraw their child from lessons.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An official inquiry into the GCSE grading scandal will fail to bring the controversy to a close, head teachers leaders’ have warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“There have been many interesting developments in Welsh education law over the
last 12 months or so, and two significant changes on the horizon. This paper covers
the following subjects:-
(1) Recent school re-organisation cases
(2) Special educational needs update
(3) Article 6 and discipline of school staff
(4) School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Bill
(5) Consultation on changes to the special educational needs regime.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 17th August 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“A deputy headteacher has been cleared of assaulting a pupil. Royden Cope, 63, was accused of restraining the boy by his wrists and then slapping him across the face.”
The Guardian, 16th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A teacher has been jailed for 11 years for sexually abusing five boys at public schools in Berkshire and Kent.”
BBC News, 24th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teacher at an all girls’ school has been banned from classrooms after being accused of being ‘obsessed with sex’.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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