Last year, Mrs Wilkin-Shaw went to the High Court, claiming the private school's language teacher Christopher Fuller had failed to properly supervise the teenagers during their training.

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Which is why Katherine Ye Zi, an English-language teacher, selected the class of Internet trailblazers from the different ethnic groups.

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Archbishop Lanfranc school says the teacher had responsibility for organising some language exams taken by external candidates, so had limited access to exam papers kept locked in a secure place.

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For many years after he moved to the Continent, he scraped a living as a language teacher in Berlitz schools, a job he disliked.

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Archbishop Lanfranc school said that the teacher had had responsibility for organising some language exams and had limited access to exam papers kept locked in a secure place.

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"If we pull all the levers, change teacher training... get schools that have language potential to take over under-performing schools, and we move the curriculum review in the right direction, then we can move towards the goal, " he said.

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Qassim Saad, an Arabic language teacher in an elementary school nearby, said his pupils began screaming as the explosion shattered windows and sparked panic.

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"We know the situation in Japan is terrible right now, so we hope that our activities can help the Japanese victims, " said Chinese organizer Jing Yao, a junior aspiring to be Mandarin language teacher.

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