A teacher was banned from working after she modified and completed student work for her.
Lucinda Jones, 49, resigned from her post at Nicholas Hamond Academy in Swaffham, Norfolk, after an IT manager noticed “unusual activity”, a professional conduct meeting heard.
Ms Jones admitted she fabricated assessment papers and submitted grades without proof of work.
She can request that the ban be reviewed in 2027.
The head of vocational education and humanities education also admitted to having provided help beyond the permitted regulations and not having kept the job safely.
The panel heard she was being investigated after the school’s IT manager noticed that students’ OCR assignments had been modified and re-saved on the network by Ms Jones.
This happened “at times when the students would not have been present,” according to the panel.
The meeting was told that the five students “did not know the problems were made up.”
“When questioned as part of the investigation, Student A stated that ‘it doesn’t belong to me, the last two parts don’t belong to me,'” reads the report.
“Student B also said that I didn’t add half of them, and Student C commented that she was upset when she saw that some of her assignments were changed significantly.”
In her statement, Ms Jones said: “I fully understand that what I did was wrong.”
The panel found that Ms Jones’ actions lacked integrity, were dishonest and fell short of expected standards.
“Ms Jones’ actions may have had an extremely adverse impact on the students whose education was impacted,” the panel said.
It has issued a ban order with a five-year review period, meaning Ms Jones has been banned from teaching indefinitely, but can seek the order’s lifting from April 2027.
She has until April 25 to appeal the decision.
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