Christopher Williams Davies was banned indefinitely following a professional conduct hearing
A college lecturer has been removed from the teaching register after sending a student a series of messages in which he called them “sweet cheeks” and “good girl”.
Christopher Williams Davies was banned indefinitely following a professional conduct hearing, which found his messages to two students at Coleg y Cymoedd, which has campuses in Aberdare, Nantgarw, Rhondda and Ystrad Mynach, were inappropriate, “sexual in nature” and amounted to serious misconduct, WalesOnline reports.
In one exchange, Davies told a student, or someone he believed to be a student: “Nobody sees your phone though, right? Can’t even begin to say the trouble I’d be in if anyone else saw these messages,” the panel heard.
The panel heard other messages sent by the former teacher to the student, which included a picture of a chocolate bar on his lap, with comments such as:
‘What’s it worth?’, ‘Persuade me’, ‘So what do I get?’, ‘You’re not trying very hard. You can’t want this Freddo that much…’, ‘Interesting… What else do I get?’, ‘What else you got?’, ‘What could you give that you don’t have to buy?’, ‘You didn’t show me the photos like you promised’, ‘Why can’t I see them now?’, ‘Good girl’ and ‘Sweet cheeks’.
The exchange occurred between October 11, 2023, and November 22, 2023, and also involved the student, identified only as Learner A to protect their identity, receiving a chocolate bar, the panel found.
In another set of messages, the teacher told a second student: “Could look at you all day ngl (not going to lie)” and said “You’re making me very hot under the collar here”. Davies also told the student, referred to only as Learner B in the hearing: “Wow you really are incredible” and “these pics are getting addictive”.
The now-banned teacher then seemed to become worried, messaging Learner B: “Nobody sees your phone though, right? Can’t even begin to say the trouble I’d be in if anyone else saw these messages”, and: “Just realised this convo took place on a works platform”.
In another message sent to Learner B between around September 26, 2023, and November 29, 2023, Davies said: “You’re giving me very unprofessional thoughts again… You’re getting very good at doing that xx”.
A committee, sitting remotely between January 2 and 22, 2026, found that the messages were sexual in nature and that they, along with giving Learner A a chocolate bar, did not maintain professional boundaries.
Publishing the findings online, the EWC said the committee imposed a Prohibition Order, indefinitely removing Mr Davies from the Register of Education Practitioners in the category of further education teacher.
It also decided Mr Davies might not make an application for restoration to the Register of Education Practitioners for two years from the hearing’s decision.
If Davies does not make a successful application for eligibility for restoration to the Register after January 22, 2028, he will remain prohibited indefinitely. He had the right of appeal to the High Court within 28 days of the hearing.