Former Kiwi deputy principal James Haggett has been banned from teaching in England for three years for not revealing he had staged fake exams in New Zealand.

A former deputy principal who staged fake exams at an Auckland college has been banned from teaching in England for at least three years after not revealing his previous deception to a British school.

James Haggett taught at St Peter's College, a Catholic boys' school in the upmarket Auckland suburb of Epsom, from 2007 to 2014.

He staged the bogus exams then hid students' answer papers and lied about their whereabouts – the fraud has now caught up with him at the Blessed Robert Catholic Sports College in the county of Staffordshire in the English Midlands.

Last week, the UK's Teaching Regulation Agency released its findings for Haggett's prohibition order.

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The agency panel found Haggett's deceit was unacceptable professional conduct – lacking in integrity – that could bring the profession into disrepute.

"The findings of misconduct are particularly serious as they include a finding of dishonesty," the panel found.

PETER MEECHAM/STUFF James Haggett accused St Peter's College of not providing him with enough support to carry out his role.

The decision noted Haggett had described "difficult personal issues which existed at the material time and also the consequences of his conduct, and the ensuing proceedings, on both him and members of his family".

However, his lack of remorse or insight and his "pragmatic" lateness in confessing the duplicity ultimately weighed against him, and meant there was some risk he would repeat the behaviour.

Haggett moved back to the United Kingdom, where he was a resident, in 2015, after the New Zealand Education Council's Complaints Assessment Committee launched an investigation into his behaviour.

In a judgment released last year, the council found him guilty of serious misconduct and ordered him to be deregistered as a teacher.

He was also censured and ordered to pay costs to the council incurred by the investigation.

The judgment said Haggett had misled the St Peter's College and its board of trustees to believe that religious education students were able to sit Cambridge exams in November 2013.

He staged the fake exams and supervised them himself, although the practice was to use external supervisors.

Following a lengthy delay in the school receiving the students' Cambridge results, Haggett told the principal and board that the qualification provider, Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), had lost the papers.

However, another deputy principal contacted the company and found that no such exams had been presented for grading.

When confronted, Haggett admitted he "constructed" a paper after discovering earlier in 2013 that students could not sit the religious exams.

He claimed he "didn't know what had happened to the exam answers" and also admitted he had done nothing to stop staff and students devoting time towards preparing for the next batch of Cambridge exams in 2014.

Haggett's then-partner found the exam papers hidden in the bottom of a cupboard in their house, and brought them to the deputy principal.

Haggett resigned from the college in 2014, but remained on pay until early 2015.

He was later employed as the principal of the new charter school Middle School West Auckland, but was forced to resign when news of the investigation broke.

A spokesperson for the Teaching Council said "the public and the teaching profession expect teachers to behave with a high level of integrity, and Mr Haggett's conduct in New Zealand fell well below those expectations".

"That is why the New Zealand Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal cancelled his New Zealand teacher registration.

"In the United Kingdom there are also statutory requirements and Codes of Conduct that set out the high standards required of teachers. Therefore, it is not surprising that the authorities in England have found Mr Haggett's conduct wanting when he failed to notify his then employer that he was subject to disciplinary proceedings in New Zealand," the spokesperson said.

Haggett has the right to appeal the English prohibition – but not until October 2021.