A teacher who provided a falsified qualified teacher status (QTS) certificate to work for a teaching agency has been banned from the profession for life.
Dr Ian Charles Roselman was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct by the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA).
A panel found that the 70-year-old’s behaviour amounted “to serious and sustained dishonesty over a period of time.”
The panel heard that Dr Roselman submitted a fake QTS certificate to an agency called A+ Teachers in October 2016, and began teaching in an unnamed school in January 2017.
His falsified certificate came to light 12 months later after the firm was purchased by Academics Ltd.
As part of the takeover the new management checked the qualifications of its candidates, including Dr Roselman.
In October 2017, the agency queried Dr Roselman’s QTS status with the TRA and it was found that his certificate was not genuine.
An investigation was launched which resulted in Dr Roselman being permanently suspended from the agency.
The TRA panel report found that Dr Roselman had led the teaching agency and two schools to believe he had QTS when he did not.
And it found that these actions were dishonest or lacked integrity.
The TRA panel report says that Dr Roselman admitted providing a false QTS certificate but did not admit that this amounted to unacceptable professional conduct or conduct that may bring the profession to disrepute.
The Department for Education has accepted the panel’s recommendation that Dr Roselman be barred from teaching indefinitely.
The TRA report said: “There was no evidence that the teacher’s actions were not deliberate.
“There was no evidence to suggest that the teacher was acting under duress, and in fact the panel found the teacher’s actions to be calculated and motivated.
“Indeed, the panel found that Dr Roselman had carried out the deception for considerable time.”
The panel also added that Dr Roselman had demonstrated “limited remorse for his actions and that his apology was focused on any reputational damage which he may have caused the agency rather than a deeper insight into his wrongdoing.”
Dr Roselman has a right of appeal to the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court within 28 days.