A PRINCIPAL who faces jail for handing out bogus NVQs “like confetti” continued to run her Wealdstone college years after being charged.

Dr Roselle Antoine MBE, 54, was found guilty on Thursday of a string of fraud offences after dishing out worthless qualifications to foreign students who had paid up to £1,350 in fees.

Antoine, head of TCS Tutorial College, in Palmerston Road, was first charged in 2008 and initially admitted the offences before frustrating the legal process by changing her plea.

She continued to run the school, for pupils with behavioural problems, and the Harrow Times was even invited to attend an anti-knife crime play put on for students in December.

Antoine was once hailed a “wonder woman” on ITV's This Morning show, and was awarded her MBE for services to education.

She has written a variety of different books, which are sold on the college's website, including one titled “Managing Challenging Behaviour - A British Caribbean Perspective”.

Councillor Susan Hall, responsible for environment services at Harrow Council, has called for Ofsted to urgently inspect the school.

She said: “She threw NVQs around like confetti at a wedding. Isn't it ironic that a woman who wrote a book about behavioural problems probably behaved worse than any of her students.”

Antoine's own personal website states: “This website came about because of the absolute insistence by members of the community, that her role-model must be seen, heard, understood and experienced by all, so that they may find courage, confidence and inspiration in the yes you can possibilities, that her life’s work to date, presents.”

Antoine, who has a house in Greenford as well as Blairhead Drive, Watford, was found guilty of eight counts of providing immigration services when not qualified between September, 2001, and March, 2004.

She was also convicted of four counts of knowingly making a false statement between September, 2001, and January, 2007.

She is due to be sentenced on April 30.