Home > Regulation > Hearings schedule and decisions Fitness To Teach What is Fitness To Teach Process Make a Referral Criminal convictions The Investigation process About Hearings Rules and Policies Professional Update and Fitness to Teach Outcomes Hearings schedule and decisions Fitness to Teach Statistics Hearings schedule and decisions Our Fitness to Teach Publication Policy sets out how we communicate information about our fitness to teach cases to the public. You can view our scheduled Fitness to Teach Hearings up to 7 days in advance by clicking on highlighted dates on the Hearings calendar. Please note that you will find the hearing day start time but not timings for individual cases as this varies according to events on the day. Our Fitness to Teach hearing decisions and any consent orders (which are issued without the need for a hearing) are published below. Recent Decisions Hearing Date Teacher Type of Hearing Outcome Published 20 September 2019 Stephen McLeish Panel Consideration Meeting Outcome Stephen McLeish Consent Order (PDF) 08.11.19 Recent decisions remain in the table above for one month. Past decisions remain in the Decisions Archive below for a period of 3 months following the date the decision is published (see right hand column). Hearings are held at our offices and are open to the public. GTC Scotland Clerwood House 96 Clermiston Road Edinburgh EH12 6UT Location Map You can also find us using Google Maps Archive Previous decisions are archived monthly and can be viewed below. They are removed three months after the publishing date: October July Date Name Type of hearing Outcome Published September 2019 Teacher C Full Hearing Decision - Teacher C Outcome - Procedural Meeting 30.10.19 20 September 2019 Teacher M Procedural Meeting Decision - Teacher M Removal with Consent Order 14.10.19 2019 Teacher A Full Hearing Decision - Teacher A Conditional Registration Order 24.10.19 2019 Teacher B Full Hearing Decision - Teacher B Outcome - Procedural Meeting 24.10.19 March Date Name Type of hearing Outcome Published Hearing Calendar October M T W T F 1 2 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 28 29 30 31 November M T W T F 1 4 5 6 7 8 11 12 13 14 15 18 19 20 21 22 25 26 27 28 29 FULL HEARING Date of hearing: 22 & 24 October Location: GTCS Type of hearing/Application: Full Hearing A Professional Competence Full Hearing is to be held under Part 3 of the GTCS Fitness to Teach Rules 2017 to consider a recommendation made by an employer with respect to the Teacher’s professional competence. Members of the public and media are expected to give at least one working days’ notice to GTCS if they wish to attend a hearing in order to allow staffing arrangements to be put in place. Link to media guidelines. In relation to applications for privacy, media are entitled to make representations to the Panel if they so wish. Further information can be found in the Privacy and Anonymity Practice statement, which you can Read here. PROCEDURAL HEARING Date of hearing: 14 November Location: GTCS Type of hearing/Application: Procedural Hearing A Procedural Hearing is to be held to consider the following: An application for the Full Hearing to be held in private An application for the name of the Teacher to be anonymised in any final decision; and A legal point which has been raised by one of the parties. Members of the public and media are expected to give at least one working days’ notice to GTCS if they wish to attend a hearing in order to allow staffing arrangements to be put in place. Link to media guidelines. In relation to applications for privacy, media are entitled to make representations to the Panel if they so wish. Further information can be found in the Privacy and Anonymity Practice statement, which you can Read here. Conduct and Competence Full Hearing Date of hearing: 22 & 24 October Location: GTCS Type of hearing/Application: Full Hearing On 25 June 2016, whilst employed by Glasgow City Council as a teacher at St Roch's Primary School, you did: Speak in an inappropriate and aggressive tone to your colleague, in front of pupils; Push a door open causing it to strike a colleague And in light of the above, it is alleged that your fitness to teach is impaired and you are unfit to teach, as a result of breaching Parts 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 of the General Teaching Council for Scotland’s Code of Professionalism and Conduct In addition to the above conduct allegations, matters of professional competence are to be considered at this Full Hearing, held under Part 3 of the GTCS Fitness to Teach Rules 2017 to consider a recommendation made by an employer with respect to the Teacher's professional competence. Members of the public and media are expected to give at least one working days’ notice to GTCS if they wish to attend a hearing in order to allow staffing arrangements to be put in place. Link to media guidelines. Conduct Full Hearing Date of hearing: 25 & 26 November Location: GTCS Type of hearing/Application: Full Hearing On Monday 27 March 2017 and Wednesday 29 March 2017, while employed by Glasgow City Council at Notre Dame High School as a teacher of Administration you failed to follow SQA assessment procedures in the conduct of the National 5 Administration exam, in that you: provided access to the exam paper for pupils; discussed the contents of the exam paper with pupils; provided the assistance described at (a) and (b) above outside of the time slots which were assigned by the school for completion of the exam. Your conduct at 1 (a), (b) and (c) above, was: Dishonest; Lacked integrity. And in light of the above it is alleged that your fitness to teach is impaired and you are unfit to teach as a result of breaching Parts 1.3, 1.4, 2.5, of the General Teaching Council for Scotland’s Code of Professionalism and Conduct. In addition to the above conduct allegations, matters of professional competence are to be considered at this Full Hearing, held under Part 3 of the GTCS Fitness to Teach Rules 2017 to consider a recommendation made by an employer with respect to the Teacher's professional competence. Members of the public and media are expected to give at least one working days’ notice to GTCS if they wish to attend a hearing in order to allow staffing arrangements to be put in place. Link to media guidelines. Contacts For any media enquiries, please contact: T: +44 (0) 131 314 6077 Media guidelines Downloads Fitness to Teach Publication Policy Privacy and Anonymity Practice Statement Contacts For any media enquiries, please contact: T: +44 (0) 131 314 6077 Media guidelines Downloads Fitness to Teach Publication Policy Privacy and Anonymity Practice Statement