A long-serving principal has been struck off the teachers' register for what the Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal has described as "the worst kind of misconduct".
Jenny Eugenia Brenda Leach, who was principal of Ferguson Intermediate School in Otara for 22 years, admitted forging her own teacher's appraisal in November 2014.
She signed the appraisal in the name of her husband Mike Leach, who was then headmaster of King's College but resigned suddenly in November 2015 after only a year in the job.
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The Disciplinary Tribunal found that Mike Leach "did not carry out an appraisal of the respondent [Jenny Leach] in 2014 and he did not sign the appraisal".