A teacher who made inappropriate comments to a colleague and asked her for "just one kiss" has been reprimanded by a regulator.

Nabil Ramzy told his fellow teacher he was jealous of her partner then shut her in a room in their school and began to "stroke her hair".

A misconduct hearing also found the English teacher approached her in a cupboard and hugged her.

The 45-year-old was employed as an English as an additional language (EAL) teacher by Fife Council between November 2008 and January 2010 when he "acted in an inappropriate manner towards (his) colleague".

Mr Ramzy's case was heard by the fitness to practise panel of the General Teaching Council for Scotland last month and a number of the charges against him were proven.

In one incident in Cardenden, Fife, Mr Ramzy allegedly shut the woman in a room and asked her for "just one kiss".

The teaching watchdog also found a charge he shut her in a room and began to "stroke her hair" proven.

Mr Ramzy was accused of approaching the woman in a cupboard and giving her a hug between May 2009 and January 2010.

The disciplinary panel ruled he should be reprimanded and the charges marked on his record for the maximum period possible but decided that his actions were not serious enough to warrant him being struck off.

They said: "The panel took the public interest into account and considered that a reprimand would indicate the seriousness of the conduct and maintain public confidence in teaching as a profession and GTCS as a regulator.

"As has already been expressed, whilst the conduct was clearly inappropriate, it was at the lower end of the scale of sexually inappropriate conduct.

"The panel considered that a reprimand should be recorded in the Register against the Respondent's name for the maximum period envisaged by the GTCS Indicative Outcomes Guidance of 2 years.

"In the panel's view, this was necessary in order to protect the public interest and in particular, to underline the seriousness of the conduct in order to declare and uphold proper standards."