Publication date: 16 July 2025

A Fitness to Practise Committee of the Education Workforce Council (EWC), sitting remotely on 7 – 10 July 2025, has found allegations of unacceptable professional conduct proved against further education teacher, Benjamin Dick.

The Fitness to Practise Committee found the following allegations proven, that whilst employed at Coleg Ceredigion Mr Dick:

• between around 2023 and February 2024, referred to learners using foul, derogatory and inappropriate language in the presence of other staff, and made comments about learners to other learners or where learners could hear, which were inappropriate and/or derogatory, namely words to the effect of:
  • “little s**t”
  • calling learners “thick”
  • using the word “f**k”
  • “they are a right c**t”
  • calling learners “d**khead” and/or “d**kheads”
  • referring to the Level 1 group as “a f**king s**t group”
  • telling the Level 2 group that the Level 1 learners were getting on your nerves
  • being irritating or annoying
  • saying that a learner was “f**king annoying”
• between September 2022 and February 2024 behaved in an inappropriate or unprofessional manner in the presence of colleagues and/or learners in that he:
  • shouted and/or swore angrily
  • threw one or more items
  • kicked a door
  • referred to his partner as a “c**t”, and/or, in a derogatory way
• on one or more occasions left learners unsupervised and/or without adequate supervision within the workshop
• in or around January and/or February 2024 allowed learners to work on a learner’s car without adequate supervision
• in or around December 2023 allowed learners to work on his car:
  • without adequate supervision
  • without checking their work before driving the car
  • allowing the car to be driven without working headlights
• between around September 2022 and around February 2024 was asleep at work, during working hour and played games on his mobile phone during workshop and/or theory lessons and/or working hours

The Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a Prohibition Order, indefinitely removing Mr Dick from the Register of Education Practitioners in the categories of further education teacher and school learning support worker. It also decided Mr Dick may not make an application for restoration to the Register of Education Practitioners before a period of 2 years has elapsed. Should Mr Dick not make a successful application for eligibility for restoration to the Register after 10 July 2027, he will remain prohibited indefinitely.

Mr Dick has the right of appeal to the High Court within 28 days.