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Useless' teacher banned for life
Nisar Ahmed, 46 is the first teacher to be banned for life for being useless in the UK.
Britain's General Teaching Council (GTC) found him guilty of gross professional incompetence and said there was a risk that pupils would be seriously disadvantaged if he was ever allowed to return to lessons.
Nisar, who is judged to be incapable of ever improving his work, cannot work in state schools again, a panel has ruled.
He was head of business studies at the John O'Gaunt Community Technology College in Hungerford, Berkshire, from September 2007 to January 2009.
He had taught for a total of 13 years at schools across the South-East of England but his management of lessons was 'invariably' below standard, the GTC disciplinary panel was told.
The school, which has more than 450 pupils, aged 11 to 18, gave Nisar "extensive formal and informal" support for more than a year but he failed to improve.
Just 13 teachers have been banned from the profession for fixed periods for incompetence since 2000 but Nisar is the first to receive a prohibition order without time limit.
His organisation of classes was deemed "persistently poor", with class registers regularly left uncompleted and student work folders "poorly managed" and sometimes left at home or in his car when they were needed in lessons.
Nisar had been placed under a formal capability process in December 2008. He resigned shortly after learning his case would be considered by governors.
However, Nisar, who lives in Reading with his wife and their two children, said he would be appealing the GTC decision.
"They have made a scapegoat out of me. I'm deeply unhappy about it and don't deserve to be the first to be struck off for life," he said.
Source: Daily Mail, UK

Nisar Ahmed, 46 is the first teacher to be banned for life for being useless in the UK.
Britain's General Teaching Council (GTC) found him guilty of gross professional incompetence and said there was a risk that pupils would be seriously disadvantaged if he was ever allowed to return to lessons.
Nisar, who is judged to be incapable of ever improving his work, cannot work in state schools again, a panel has ruled.
He was head of business studies at the John O'Gaunt Community Technology College in Hungerford, Berkshire, from September 2007 to January 2009.
He had taught for a total of 13 years at schools across the South-East of England but his management of lessons was 'invariably' below standard, the GTC disciplinary panel was told.
The school, which has more than 450 pupils, aged 11 to 18, gave Nisar "extensive formal and informal" support for more than a year but he failed to improve.
Just 13 teachers have been banned from the profession for fixed periods for incompetence since 2000 but Nisar is the first to receive a prohibition order without time limit.
His organisation of classes was deemed "persistently poor", with class registers regularly left uncompleted and student work folders "poorly managed" and sometimes left at home or in his car when they were needed in lessons.
Nisar had been placed under a formal capability process in December 2008. He resigned shortly after learning his case would be considered by governors.
However, Nisar, who lives in Reading with his wife and their two children, said he would be appealing the GTC decision.
"They have made a scapegoat out of me. I'm deeply unhappy about it and don't deserve to be the first to be struck off for life," he said.
Source: Daily Mail, UK