A TEACHER who posed as a senior lecturer at the University of South Wales to try and keep his job at a special needs school has been banned from the profession.

Komborero Dauramanzi, 34, created a fake email address claiming to be a professor at the university so he could keep his job at Swalcliffe Park School in Oxfordshire.

He emailed his bosses from the bogus account to cover up the fact that he had failed one of his teacher training exams.

Dauramanzi was suspended for three years at a National College for Teaching and Leadership tribunal.

NCTL panel chair Mike Carter said: 'The panel has found that the allegations against Mr Dauramanzi involve acts of breach of trust which affect the reputation of the teaching profession.

'The conduct of Mr Dauramanzi was planned, deliberate and maintained over a period of time.

'The panel has noted that Mr Dauramanzi having acted in a dishonest manner at the school, then committed further acts of dishonesty in relation to his engagement with his regulator.

'The panel considers that public confidence in the profession could be weakened if such conduct as the panel has found proved, were not treated with seriousness when regulating the conduct of the profession.

'The factual findings against Mr Dauramanzi raise important public interest considerations in declaring proper standards of conduct for the teaching profession.

'Teachers are at all times role models and are expected to act with integrity.

'In carrying out the balancing exercise the panel has decided that the public interest considerations outweigh by some margin the interests of Mr Dauramanzi.

'As acknowledged by Mr Dauramanzi in his email of 10 February 2015, 'I realise that anyone teaching children should themselves be a role model whose honesty can be trusted without question.'

Dauramanzi was hired as an unqualified general studies teacher in September last year on the basis he would re-sit his failed exam.

But instead he created a bogus email address claiming to be that of a senior lecturer at the Newport university.

He sent emails to the school from the fake account stating that he was waiting for his final marks when it had actually already been failed.

Swalcliffe Park School in Banbury is a boarding and day school for boys with autism, dyslexia, language impairment and other learning needs.

Dauramanzi was banned from the profession for three years and cannot reapply for teaching status until 2018.