Teacher gets swearing compensation

A teacher who was accused of swearing at a student at a college during a cookery class and was subsequently dismissed for gross misconduct, was awarded £54,000 in compensation. The teacher told an employment tribunal he was the victim of a conspiracy to remove him from the college where he had worked for 13 years. A number of students who were interviewed about the incident were apparently not in the college at the time. The college said a teacher in a nearby room had heard the swearing.