
The DoE panel said the emails were "over-familiar in nature".Ĭommenting on the content of his emails, the panel's report stated: "This included the phrase 'Stay awesome', 'Hahahahahahhaa!!!', the use of emojis, sharing information regarding trips he had taken and a book that he was reading.

He had worked at the university but only for six months as a part-time lecturer.īut while at Lymm High School, Sharkey initiated an email conversation with a "vulnerable" female pupil during the summer holidays.

Instead, he claimed he had been Lecturer of Moral and Political Philosophy and Political Economics between September 2012 and December 2016 at a university. When he applied for the job at Lymm High School, he omitted that he had worked and been fired from Bryanston School. Sharkey worked at the school for five months before he was dismissed in February 2016 for allowing a female pupil to enter his home alone with him.
