Education

Fiona regularly resolves disputes within Schools and Universities involving teaching /academic staff, trustees, parents and internal management staff . Fiona has also trained a number of senior individuals from Universities, educational trusts and schools as mediators and   teachers and school prefects in mediation skills. Fiona has been a School governor of a special educational needs School in London since 2005.

• Interpersonal dispute between senior Finance officers in a well-known UK educational Trust.
• Dispute mediated over months on the re-integration of Teacher after suspension and dismissal for alleged ‘over assistance’ in exams at a well-known independent School.
• Dispute between an independent school and parents of a child with Asperger’s Syndrome, concerning disability discrimination, unfair exclusion and provision of support.
• Mediation with a University and a Professor on performance issues and breakdown in relationship with a Dean, resulting in redeployment within University.
• Mediated dispute between a former headmaster and a leading international organisation of independent schools over his dismissal.
• Mediation of an emotional complaint from parents of a vulnerable young adult, regarding a College’s conduct in referring a very sensitive behavioural matter to Social Services.
• Mediation over several days of intensely emotional, challenging and protracted discrimination case involving a dismissed senior University Professor.
• Mediated dispute over teaching schedules, re-integration after longstanding absence and capability issues of a senior lecturer in a University.
• Facilitation regarding changes in School strategy at an away day, including curriculum changes and the introduction of Baccalaureate with senior teaching staff, and subsequent design of consultation process with parents in an independent school.
• A complex Independent assessment and report with recommendations on a race and sex discrimination complaint against the University Dean and other senior academics by a senior member of management.
• Independent review of the actions of teachers in a school on child protection issues following a case in the public domain.
• Independent review and recommendations into the behaviours of a state school Head Teacher following complaints.

 See also Employment and Neutral Interventions