“According to last weeks’ press coverage, schools are to be given new powers to weed out incompetent teachers and enforce ‘rigorous’ standards to ensure performance is maintained. However, behind the headlines these proposals may be less far reaching in practice than they at first appear.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 18th January 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“The qualifications regulator is to launch an official investigation into exam seminars staged to help teachers improve GCSE and A-level results amid concerns the system is open to abuse.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Hundreds of poor teachers are likely to be allowed to remain in the classroom under Government plans to scrap the profession’s official regulator, it is feared.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Education secretary Michael Gove has ordered an inquiry into a claim that examiners are giving teachers advice on what questions their pupils should expect in GCSE and A-level papers.”
The Guardian, 7th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A nursery teacher was so drunk on a long-haul flight that she indecently assaulted a steward she mistook for her boyfriend, a court heard yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A volunteer religious teacher at a mosque in Yorkshire has been jailed for 10 weeks for kicking and slapping young boys during lessons at a mosque.”
The Guardian, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Teachers are being given new powers to discipline pupils as part of sweeping Government reforms designed to restore order to the classroom.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A drama teacher who watched as two teenagers had sex on the back seat of his car has been jailed.”
BBC News, 14th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A religious education teacher who sent sexual text messages to a pupil blamed the break-up of an affair for her actions, Bolton Crown court has heard.”
BBC News, 31st October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former teacher at a school in North East Lincolnshire has been jailed after admitting having sex with a pupil.”
BBC News, 17th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A West Yorkshire teacher has been jailed for four years after having a sexual relationship with a pupil.”
BBC News, 13th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teacher acquitted of sex assaults on pupils has spoken of his distress at living apart from his wife and baby for eight months because of the case.”
BBC News, 26th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teacher caught by a caretaker in an embrace with an underage schoolgirl in a darkened classroom after hours avoided a prison sentence today.”
The Independent, 23rd September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A primary schoolteacher has been banned from working for allowing children to hug him.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A secondary school assistant head teacher has spoken of his anguish at being accused of assualt by an unruly pupil as he tried to restore order in his school.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“In Colleen Smith v IC and Devon & Cornwall Constabulary (EA/2011/0006), the requester asked for information on the number of school teachers in specified towns who had been investigated, cautioned and charged under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 between January 2005 and November 2007. The Constabulary eventually relied on the personal data at section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act (‘FOIA’).”
UK Human Rights Blog, 16th September 2011
Source: http://ukhumanrightsblog.com/
“A teacher has been banned for three months after sending sex-related text messages to one pupil and trying to kiss another.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A teacher has been banned from the classroom after hiding a string of convictions – including biting a police officer.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A male teacher who moonlighted as a stripper and appeared in pornographic films is free to continue teaching despite being found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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