5 h. ago Science teacher who looked at pictures of naked women and used adult chat sites during lessons is banned

Christian Watkinson, 48, used a 'hotspot' mobile phone internet connection to bypass safety features at The Christian School in Takeley, Essex, and access the content.

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8 h. ago Teacher banned after pupils see explicit image when he was using laptop to present to class

Christian Watkinson alleged by pupils to have accessed inappropriate material 'almost every lesson'

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9 h. ago ‘Exceptionally reckless’ science teacher banned after pupils saw explicit images on work laptop

Christian Watkinson alleged by pupils to have accessed inappropriate material 'almost every lesson'

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23 h. ago 700,000 GCSE pupils without a specialist physics teacher, report suggests

Just 16% of total teaching hours for combined science are provided by a physics teacher with a post-A-level qualification, the analysis found.

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1 week ago Embroidery honors Mexico femicide victims: ‘The next name might be yours’

A group of women have so far embroidered almost 200 patches of names and aim to embroider all the names of women killed by femicide in Morelos since 2015It started with the killing of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla, who was murdered and mutilated by her boyfriend in February 2020. The brutality of the murder – and the leaking of explicit images of her body to tabloid newspapers – touched off a national furor.Escamilla’s murder struck artist María Antonieta De la Rosa with both horror and disgust. Even in a country where more than 10 women on average were being killed every day, it felt especially cruel. “You realize how permeating this violence is,” she said. “It’s normalized in every direction.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago One in five secondary pupils have felt pressured into sharing explicit images of themselves using smartphone, study reveals

The shocking study by Vodafone shows that nearly two thirds of the 11 to 17-year-olds later discovered that their images or videos had been forwarded on without their consent.

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2 w. ago Scotland's pupils should be 'banned from leaving school at lunchtime' to boost health

Brian Whittle MSP has raised some innovative ideas for boosting pupil health in Scotland’s schools

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3 w. ago Croydon teacher banned after doing pupil’s coursework and submitting it as their own

Lauren Oliver, 35, who worked at Oasis Academy Shirley Park, has been struck off the teaching register

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3 w. ago Oklahoma House speaker blames ‘bizarre accident’ for explicit images on Superintendent’s office TV during private meeting

A newly installed TV automatically plays an action movie channel and happened to be showing a film that contained nudity, the Republican lawmaker said

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3 w. ago BBC scandal as top female star showed 'penis pic' to junior staff member

BBC faces a brewing scandal as a top female presenter allegedly showed an explicit image to a junior colleague, leaving staff horrified and sparking an internal investigation

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3 w. ago PE teacher banned after allowing pupil with broken foot to play football

Oliver Barker, 28, was struck off after letting the pupil play football at Percy Hedley School in Tyne and Wear

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4 w. ago Teacher banned after asking pupil to take bikini photos on holiday

Kieran Harker has been banned from teaching indefinitely after he was found to have asked one schoolgirl for pictures of her in a bikini

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