It over-recruited by an even larger percentage and will have to pay back £452,000.The university said it had been a victim of its own success in recruiting students from families with no history of a university education.Two other Scottish institutions were fined for failing to recruit enough students. Edinburgh University must pay back £85,000 and Glasgow University £56,000. Spokesmen for each insisted that the penalty was a “one off”.. An American teacher who left her job at a British school said the students’ violent and disruptive behaviour had driven her and two US colleagues to return home in disgust.

They and their colleague, Glenn Duquenoy, 47, a science teacher, found the students were uncontrollable from the start.”From the very first class, I was just shocked,” Miss Lauletta said “They were an undisciplined rabble. There are no procedures for controlling them, and they know that.”In a typical class there would be kids running across the tabletops, jumping on chairs They would be yelling, fighting, and throwing rubbish… They were swearing all the time and the girls were as bad as the boys.I’ve taught in tough schools, but nothing like this.”Miss Lauletta said that when she complained, her own skills were questioned. “Head teachers have always written good reports about my work,” she said “That was the turning point for me.

I was being criticised for my work with these uncontrollable kids in a system that does not work and has no provision for effective discipline.”The tragedy is, there were some gems among these pupils – kids who were really bright and wanted to learn But they got dragged down by the rest.”. Teachers lured from developing countries to fill staffing shortages in Britain’s classrooms are quitting within weeks because of the poor behaviour of pupils, it was revealed yesterday. In their countries, there is automatic respect for them as teachers and good discipline.”A typical secondary school teacher in the UK has to earn respect.”Some of those who quit take non-teaching jobs in the UK such as bar work, teachers said.Colin Newcombe, a teacher from Cheshire, added: “How are people from abroad attracted to come and teach in this country? By her own admission, Estelle Morris [the Secretary of State for Education] can’t fund teacher pay bonuses or pay student teachers fairly. The transport system infrastructure is crumbling and the health service can’t meet the people’s needs. The teachers who come here think they’ve come to Great Britain or Cool Britannia. The reality is that they’ve fetched up in a Third World Britain.”The union overwhelmingly backed a motion deploring the necessity for the UK to recruit thousands of teachers from Third World countries “who can ill-afford to lose their expertise” and called for compensation be paid to those who had trained them.Delegates said developing countries such as Jamaica and South Africa were being “sucked dry” of teachers to meet the needs of British schools.Peter Smith, general secretary of the ATL, said: “To raid countries in desperate need of qualified teachers such as South Africa and the Caribbean is the worst kind of chauvinism.

It is irresponsible in terms of failing to face up to the teacher shortage problem we have in the UK.”Latest figures show there are 5,000 vacancies in British schools.Michael Catty, from Hertfordshire, said one of the five private teaching agencies recruiting from overseas had estimated that on any one day it had 1,000 supply staff teaching in London schools alone. He said many were lured by adverts on the internet which claimed there had never been a better time to teach in the UK and that a job was “only a telephone call away”.David Forbes, also from Hertfordshire, said Jamaica had lost at least 400 teachers in a year through jobs being offered abroad with the result that pupils were having to learn science through the internet because of a shortage of staff.David Britten, from Hackney in east London, said: “I started my teaching career working in Zambia and Nigeria. Now Hackney reminds me of Zambia as we have managed to reduce parts of our education service to a Third World country.”. Charlotte K? party activist: born Berlin 19 April 1903; married first Erich Wendt (marriage dissolved 1936), second 1953 Walter Ulbricht (died 1973; one adopted daughter deceased); died Berlin 27 March 2002.