A primary school teacher has been awarded more than £150,000 in compensation after a pupil assaulted her for asking him to get on with his work, union figures show. The six-figure payout was among cases in which education staff were awarded settlements for injuries and discrimination suffered in school. Overall, the NASUWT teaching union secured … Read more
A primary school teacher has been awarded more than £150,000 in compensation after a pupil assaulted her for asking him to get on with his work, union figures show. The six-figure payout was among cases in which education staff were awarded settlements for injuries and discrimination suffered in school. Overall, the NASUWT teaching union secured … Read more
The proportion of pupils attending schools in England last week dropped as more had to self-isolate, government data suggests. The Department for Education estimates 3.3 per cent of all pupils on roll, up to 264,000, did not attend school for Covid-19-related reasons on March 25, up from 2.5 per cent on March 18. The data … Read more
Pupil is suspended as sexual misconduct claims are probed by police at £22,000-a-year public school to the stars Pupils made a number of allegations to staff at Fine Arts College in Hampstead It is understood that a male pupil has been suspended pending an investigation Parents of school’s 200 pupils, aged between 13 and 19, … Read more
Pupil is suspended as sexual misconduct claims are probed by police at £22,000-a-year public school to the stars Pupils made a number of allegations to staff at Fine Arts College in Hampstead It is understood that a male pupil has been suspended pending an investigation Parents of school’s 200 pupils, aged between 13 and 19, … Read more
South African headteacher is suspended for lowering pupil, 11, into pit latrine and making him dig through faeces with his bare hands to search for his phone Master promised small boy 200 rand (£10) to dig through latrine in Eastern Cape Child, an orphan who lives with his grandmother, was traumatised by incident He was … Read more
A teacher has been struck off after it was revealed he had had ‘sexual contact’ with a former pupil while working at a £34,500-a-year boarding school 13 years ago. Paul Laidler, a biology teacher at exclusive Warminster School in Wiltshire plied the girl with booze at a local pub before getting undressed in his home. They … Read more
A senior female teacher has been struck off for bombarding a vulnerable student with loving messages. Donna Slater, 48, arranged for a 15-year-old female pupil to meet a strange male at night for ‘mentoring’. The former teacher at Heston Community School in Hounslow, London, was banned from the classroom for the 2017 incident. It came … Read more
Maths teacher, 30, is struck off for pursuing ‘inappropriate sexual relationship’ with former pupil immediately after she left the school Scott Leavold-Davey quit teaching to pursue a relationship with a former pupil The student left school in July 2018, while the maths teacher quit in January 2019 He was previously warned ‘not to undertake one … Read more
Asylum-seeking school pupil who claims to be 15 but is BALDING and ‘looks 40’ disappears from lessons after half-term Asylum-seeking pupil has not been in classes in Coventry school since half-term Parents raised concerns about the student, who claims to be 15 but looks 40 He is thought to have recently moved to the UK … Read more