Anguel Tchourkin
Introduction
Anguel Tchourkin worked as a supply teacher in England, including through Engage Education, the Watford-based agency recorded as his former employer. In July 2025, a professional conduct panel of the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) found that, on two CVs sent to agencies, he had inflated his periods of service at several employers and omitted other jobs entirely, in part to conceal safeguarding complaints that had been made about him. The panel found him guilty of unacceptable professional conduct and of conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute. On 4 August 2025, Sarah Buxcey, deciding on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education, prohibited him from teaching indefinitely.
Background Information
The TRA received a complaint about Mr Tchourkin on 12 May 2020, and investigations established that on at least two occasions he had given potential employers CVs alleged to contain false or misleading information. On 5 August 2020 he was made subject to an Interim Prohibition Order (IPO). A formal TRA referral notice is dated 14 February 2024, and the notice of proceedings of 10 March 2025 set out five allegations covering his applications to Engage Education and, later, Omnia People. The panel convened at Coventry on 29 July 2025 and continued on 30 and 31 July by virtual hearing. Mr Tchourkin denied the allegations in their entirety; he did not attend the hearing and was not represented.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
False CVs, and safeguarding complaints left off the record.
The first CV was attached to emails of 12 March and 23 April 2020 concerning an application to Engage Education. It stated that Mr Tchourkin had worked for Tradewind Recruitment between February 2018 and May 2019; the panel found he had registered in June 2018 but only worked between January and April 2019. It stated he had worked at FreshSteps Independent School from September 2017 to January 2018; a letter from the school confirmed he had worked there for two weeks in October 2017. It stated he had worked for Prospero Teaching from March to September 2016; the agency’s records showed five days at The Crest Academy, from 23 to 27 May 2016. The panel found allegations 1(a), 1(b) and 1(c) proven.
The second CV was emailed to Omnia People on 2 September 2021, when he was already subject to the IPO. It made no reference to his Engage Education placement of 14 February 2020, and no reference at all to Tradewind. It stated he had worked for Remedy Recruitment from May 2019 to February 2020; a letter from the agency showed 10 to 30 June 2019. For both Remedy and Athona Recruitment work, the CV said that “Work is on hold due to the COVID-19”. The panel found allegations 3(a), 3(b) and 3(c) proven, and 3(d) and 3(e) not proven.
The panel found it proven that the first CV was inflated to improve his prospects of securing or retaining a teaching post (2(a)); the claim that the Tradewind dates specifically concealed the Copthall complaint (2(b)) was not proven. Allegations 4(a) and 4(b) were found proven: the panel was satisfied that omitting Engage Education and Tradewind from the second CV was intended, on the balance of probabilities, to conceal that complaints had been made about him — one on or about 14 February 2020 at Bentley Wood High School and one on or about 29 April 2019 at Copthall School. The panel did not examine the incidents themselves, which were not part of the allegations before it; it noted only that complaints had been made. Allegation 4(c), that an omission concealed the IPO, was not proven. The panel also found allegation 5 proven, that the behaviour was dishonest and lacking in integrity, describing it as “a deliberate attempt to circumvent recruitment and safeguarding processes dishonestly, and in a manner which lacked integrity”, and found the offence of “fraud or serious dishonesty” relevant. It concluded that the conduct amounted to “misconduct of a very serious nature which fell significantly short of the standards expected of the profession”.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The decision is a regulatory record: it records no press coverage and no criminal proceedings. The panel recommended that a prohibition order be imposed with immediate effect, with a four-year review period. It found that “public confidence in the profession could be seriously weakened if conduct such as that found against Mr Tchourkin were not treated with the utmost seriousness when regulating the conduct of the profession”, against findings involving deliberately misleading staffing agencies, and therefore schools, as to his career history. On mitigation, it recorded: “The panel had no evidence in front of it of any mitigation or mitigating circumstances and the panel had seen no evidence that Mr Tchourkin had demonstrated any insight into his actions nor any remorse for his actions. The panel noted that the allegations as found proven appeared to demonstrate a pattern of behaviour.” The decision maker, Sarah Buxcey, imposed the prohibition order on behalf of the Secretary of State on 4 August 2025.
Current Status
Mr Tchourkin is prohibited from teaching indefinitely and cannot teach in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children’s home in England. He may apply for the prohibition order to be set aside, but not until 7 August 2029 at the earliest, four years from the date of the order. “This is not an automatic right to have the prohibition order removed.” If he applies, a fresh panel will decide whether the order should be set aside. The order takes effect from the date it is served on him, and he has a right of appeal to the High Court within 28 days from the date he is given notice of the order.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The prohibition order ends his teaching career in England. He had already been unable to work providing teaching services since the interim order of 5 August 2020, and the final order makes that position indefinite unless a future panel sets it aside after August 2029. The decision maker placed considerable weight on the findings of serious dishonesty and on the absence of insight or remorse, and gave less weight to his contribution to the profession. The findings stand on the public record, visible to any employer running the checks required before employing someone to work with children.