Evangelina Tsadiosou

Introduction

Evangelina Tsadiosou is a former teacher at John Hampden Grammar School in High Wycombe who has been prohibited from teaching indefinitely after a Teaching Regulation Agency panel found she lied about her employment history and salary scales on a 2019 job application, and that she let pupils follow her on Instagram . She disputed all of the allegations and did not appear at her hearing in October 2026; the panel found the dishonesty proved and the Secretary of State imposed a ban with a five-year minimum before any application to set it aside can be made .

Background Information

Tsadiosou applied for a post at John Hampden School on or around 18 August 2019 . The school held a probation review meeting in her absence on 23 September 2019 and terminated her employment; on 27 September 2019 it sent her a letter asking her to attend a meeting, and the matter was referred to the TRA on 2 October 2019 . The allegations sat unresolved for years before a notice of proceedings issued on 5 August 2026 and a virtual hearing was convened from 19 to 21 October 2026 — a hearing Tsadiosou did not attend and at which she was not represented .

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Found dishonest on a job application; banned from teaching indefinitely.

The panel heard that in her application form Tsadiosou stated she had been employed at Ashmole Academy from September 2002 until July 2003 when her employment had in fact ceased in April 2003, and that her salary scale there was M4 when she had been paid at unqualified-teacher point 10 . She likewise stated she had worked at Alfriston School from September 2014 until December 2014 when the employment ran from October 2014 to December 2014, and gave her scale at Icknield School as M6 when it was M5 . A second cluster of allegations concerned social media: that between September and December 2019 she allowed one or more pupils from the school to follow her Instagram account and liked a photograph of a pupil on the pupil’s own account, conduct the notice alleged she knew or ought to have known was inappropriate .

Tsadiosou provided no admissions, and the panel weighed hearsay evidence from two witnesses whose statements it decided to admit . It found the allegations proved, characterised the application-form claims as dishonest, and moved to the prohibition stage, where it found all of the public-interest limbs engaged — the safeguarding and wellbeing of pupils, the maintenance of public confidence in the profession, and the declaring and upholding of proper standards of conduct .

Public Reaction and Consequences

The panel recommended a prohibition order, concluding that a ban was an appropriate and proportionate response to conduct that brought the profession into disrepute, and the decision taken on behalf of the Secretary of State made the order with immediate effect . The decision-maker accepted the panel’s assessment that the dishonesty, the absence of any evidence of insight or remorse, and the risk of repetition meant Tsadiosou should be prohibited from teaching indefinitely; she may apply for the order to be set aside, but not before 23 October 2031 — five years from the date of the order — and even then there is no automatic right to have it removed .

Current Status

Tsadiosou is prohibited from teaching indefinitely and cannot teach in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children’s home in England . Her employment at John Hampden Grammar School had already been terminated in September 2019, days after the probation review meeting held without her; the 2026 determination converts that dismissal into a permanent, national bar with a five-year review gate .

Impact on Their Career/Life

The findings foreclose school teaching in England for at least the review period, and the dishonesty finding — the panel’s stated reason for refusing a shorter review — follows her into any future application requiring a verified employment history . The published decision records that she was not present and not represented, that the hearing proceeded on her disputed-all-allegations position, and that the panel nonetheless found the false claims proved on the documentary evidence .

Sources

• “Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Ms Evangelina Tsadiosou” — Department for Education / GOV.UK, published 13 November 2026: source