A teacher who forged her qualifications may have over marked GCSE course work at a Devon school, Exeter Crown Court has heard.
Julia Rawlinson faked documents to work as an Edexcel examiner in 2007 and a biology teacher at Westland School, Torquay in 2011, the court heard.
Staff at the school became suspicious and called the police.
Sentencing was adjourned on Rawlinson, 44, of Brixham, who admitted false representation and forgery.
Prosecutor Howard Phillips told the court Rawlinson had been marking course work and that as a consequence “the grades of children are likely to be affected”.
He added: “They went into their exams thinking they had good results banked. They went forward believing they had more in their course work than was the case and expecting to do better than they did.”
Her forged documents included a masters degree in science psycology and a doctorate of science psychology from the Glasgow Caledonian University and a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Jolyon Tuck, defending Rawlinson, said she had not marked the course work, saying: “The teacher at the school doesn’t mark the coursework. It gets passed to an external marker.”
He also said there were “sincere” concerns about her mental health.
Judge Phillip Wassall adjourned sentencing to allow new medical reports to be prepared. The issue of whether Rawlinson marked the coursework at the school needed to be clarified, he said.
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