A special school teacher has been banned from the profession after submitting her own work instead of a pupil’s for teacher assessed grades (TAGs) during the pandemic.
In what appears to be the first misconduct sanctions issues relating to Covid grades, the Teaching Regulation Agency found Gillian Hardman submitted an “exemplar” piece of work instead of a pupil’s in June 2021.
GCSEs and A-levels were cancelled in 2021 due to Covid lockdowns. Instead, teachers decided grades and schools submitted these to exam boards.
The impacted teenager had to resit the exam months later, the school said.
