Ban for teacher who cheated for pupils

A textiles teacher who helped teenage pupils make corsets before giving them wildly inflated grades has been banned from the profession. Jill Dodds, 42, doctored her GCSE students’ coursework before submitting inaccurate marks to assessors, a hearing was told. Dodds, who worked in the Technology department at Kenton School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has been banned from teaching indefinitely. She was asked by the AQA exam board to submit her students’ work for moderation on 14 May last year, the National College for…