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 17 and 18 June 2021 Sharon Sinclair Full Hearing Decision - Full Hearing Decision - Panel Meeting 22/07/2021 11, 12 May and 2 June 2021 Tunde Szombathy Full Hearing Decision - Full Hearing Decision - Panel Meeting 07/07/2021 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: Archive Archive Hearing Date Teacher Type of Hearing Outcome Published 4, 5 and 6 May 2021 Bing Wang Full Hearing Decision - Full Hearing Decision - Procedural Hearing 08/06/21 20, 21 and 22 April 2021 Teacher A Full Hearing Decision - Full Hearing Decision - Procedural Hearing Decision - Panel 21/05/21 Upcoming Hearings Hearing notices will be added here up to 7 days in advance. 23 July 2021 Subsequent Registration Application Hearing Date of hearing: 23 July 2021 Location: Remotely (via Microsoft Teams) Type of hearing: Subsequent Registration Application Hearing Allegation A Subsequent Registration Application Hearing is to be held under Part 4 of the Fitness to Teach Rules 2017 (‘the Rules’) on 23 July 2021 at 10:00am to consider an application for registration in Secondary – Biology with Science subsequent to a decision of a Fitness to Teach Panel that the Applicant be removed from the GTCS Register. In light of the Covid-19 pandemic and Scottish Government guidance on social distancing, this hearing will take place virtually, by way of Microsoft Teams. Should any members of the public or press wish to attend the hearing (virtually), they must contact GTCS no less than 48 (working) hours prior to the start time of the hearing (i.e. by 10.00 am on 21 July 2021) in order to request the link to the public hearing. Any requests to attend the hearing beyond this time cannot be facilitated. Attendees will require to have the Microsoft Teams application downloaded to their device. You can download Microsoft Teams from the Microsoft website, or from the Apple Store on Apple devices, or the Google Play Store on Android devices. When requesting a link to the public hearing, the following information will require to be provided: Your full name Date of hearing Email address to which we can send the Microsoft Teams link Contact number we can reach you on if there are any technical issues during the hearing Reason for wishing to observe (for example: press) As with hearings held in our office, members of the public and press in attendance are reminded not to interrupt proceedings and it is strictly prohibited for an observer to audio or video record, screen shot, photograph, copy or share our hearing proceedings. Under Rule 1.7.10, a Panel may decide to exclude any person where the Panel is of the opinion that his/her presence is disruptive or otherwise detrimental to proceedings being conducted in line with the general objectives. Furthermore, members of the public and press will not be permitted access to the private discussions of the Panel. Read the 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