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Good evening, I'm Asad Ahmad. for the news where you are. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Teachers at one of London's top academies have told BBC London | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
they worked in a "climate of intimidation and fear" | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
and witnessed coursework being "falsely marked." | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Last month, we reported that the head teacher | :00:28. | :00:28. | |
at Green Spring Academy, in Shoreditch, was among several | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
The Trust investigated and says "appropriate action | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
is now being taken", although they say they can't | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
Here's our education correspondent, Marc Ashdown. | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
It's the question at the heart of this investigation - | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
within a couple of years, how could a failing school become | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
outstanding so quickly and GCSE results go through the roof? | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
They were in difficulties and feeling the pressure... | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
John is now retired, but worked at the school for many years. | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
It started, he says, with a clear out of very experienced staff. | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
You know, they would come into work one morning and, presumably, | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
they were asked to leave, or they were asked to hand | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
their keys in and they were escorted from the premises. | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
And this happened to a large number of people, at least ten | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
I mean, obviously, it gave a climate of intimidation and fear, | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
He claims behind it all was a relentless drive | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
to improve results by any means, even cheating. | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
Everything was geared towards exams and it really didn't matter | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
Whether by genuinely taking the exams or, on a few occasions, | :01:48. | :02:03. | |
A teacher awarding a pass mark to a student who hasn't | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
We've been contacted by about half a dozen people who've taught | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
They all paint a very similar picture. | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
They claim often very experienced teachers have | :02:14. | :02:14. | |
either been forced out or, because of their treatment, | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
have been left with no choice but to leave. | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
Meanwhile, GCSE results went from being among the worst | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
The Academy hit the headlines in 2015 when three pupils fled | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
to Syria to join so-called Islamic State. | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
And our thoughts are with the families of the missing | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
The executive head teacher, Mark Keary, was praised | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
The school kept its outstanding Ofsted rating. | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
But last month he was suspended, along with three senior | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
members of staff, as part of an investigation | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
The Department for Education told us "there is no place for cheating | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
in schools and exam malpractice is extremely rare. | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Following this investigation, exam malpractice has been | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
identified," they say, "resulting in disciplinary action." | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
Green Spring Education Trust said the independent | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
Appropriate action is being taken, which cannot be discussed | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
They believe they've acted robustly and with integrity. | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
We did approach Mark Keary for a comment, | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
A man has been jailed for three years after unintentionally | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
killing his friend with a single punch after his shoe was thrown | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
Alexander Thomson, from Clapham, hit Tom Hume in a drunken row | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
in August as they travelled in a mini-cab on Farringdon | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
Mr Hume died the next day of a brain haemorrhage. | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
The number of fires in prisons in London has reached record levels. | :03:35. | :03:45. | |
Figures show Thameside Prison recorded the most fires of any jail | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
in the country last year, with over 100. | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
The Ministry of Justice says most were "relatively minor." | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
Critics say the figures highlight how "unstable prisons have become." | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
A female victim of a sexual assault on the Tube has waived her right | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
to anonymity to raise awareness of a crime which most | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
Last year, Jessica Brady was travelling on the Northern Line | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
and didn't realise that what had just happened to her | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
She's been speaking to Sarah Harris. | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
Using the Tube was all part of the excitement of moving | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
to London for Jess, her jigsaw puzzle shows all the lines | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
But it ended in turmoil on a late-night journey home | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
on the Northern Line, when a man groped her several times, | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
It caught me off guard, I think, and it frightened me and I went | :04:34. | :04:45. | |
into shock because the only way I can describe it is thinking, | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
And it was the flight mode, probably. | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
I didn't want to bring attention to the scene. | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
I just thought, if he has a knife, he could attack me further, | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
And I just needed to get out of there. | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
I'd like to report being sexually harassed on the Tube. | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
This film is part of a new campaign by TfL and the police, | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
showing how seriously the offence is being taken. | :05:07. | :05:07. | |
What this film shows is every piece of information that comes | :05:08. | :05:16. | |
into the police is taken seriously, it aids an investigation | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
and it helps build up a picture of offenders, | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
We really want to encourage people to come forward and report this kind | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
of offensive behaviour and criminality to us. | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
The message we're trying to get out today is that every single report | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
we receive builds a picture and with those initial reports | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
we can start an investigation, people will be taken seriously. | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
It gives us the best opportunity to catch offenders. | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
Because of CCTV there's been a significant increase in arrests | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
for sexual harrassment on the Tube since 2014. | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
But the rise in reported instances has been even higher. | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
Officers say they're still relying on women like Jess, | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
It wasn't about getting justice for me, it was about making sure | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
that he couldn't do that to somebody else or potentially worse and, | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
if anything, I encourage people to try and think of it like that. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Jess prefers to walk these days, but after identifying her attacker | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
she watched in court as he was given a six-month jail sentence. | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
That's it for now from me, but let's find out what | :06:19. | :06:30. | |
Mild today? Set to stay so for the weekend and into next week. | :06:31. | :06:44. | |
Overnight will be cloudy. That will blanket in temperatures, | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
temperatures not falling below nine or ten degrees. To will start off | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
grey and stay mild. There will be good spells of sunshine as we head | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
throughlet course of the afternoon. That grey start, light winds from | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
the south. Dryer air moving off the near continent. The clouds will | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
break up. When we see the sunshine temperatures will push up to 16 or | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
17 Celsius. Very pleasant indeed. Saturday evening will also be dry | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
and fine. Sunday weather fronts come streaming in from the west. Sunday | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
is looking pretty wet to start with. Heavy rain around. That should clear | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
but I think it will never really clear the region throughout the | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
afternoon. Temperatures cool because of the cloud and rain. Saturday the | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
better day of the two. Next week it will be mild with sunshine as well. | :07:31. | :07:33. |