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Introduction
Each profession is known to have its ethics, charters, and principles that determine the professional and moral behavioral criteria that are to be adapted and respected by those who are practicing such professions, noting that the mentioned persons should bear their full occupational responsibility. Indeed, the ethical responsibility is totally different from the legal liability in that the latter focuses on defining certain legislations that are being applied by the force of law on the contrary to the ethical responsibility which is broader and inclusive due to its concentration on the relationship between human beings and their Creator, themselves, and others that's why it is considered a personal and binding responsibility towards Allah, and their consciousness as well.
Ethics of
the Teaching/Educational Profession
They are virtuous morals that those who are practicing the
profession should have in the field of education /teaching on both the
behavioral and intellectual levels that bring upon them in several ethical
duties entailing integrity and credibility.
It is
worth noting that the entire Educational Institutions seek to promote a group
of ethical charters with a view to controlling the employees in a way that ascertains
the existence of an ethical reference which fulfills the efficiency and
transparency measures of these institutions. These ethical charters also should
contribute to the implementation of the process of rationing the traditions and
norms that are included in the charter of ethics so as all the employees
including the teaching staff, their assistants, employees, and students to
adhere to them in order to sublime the value and dignity of humans in addition
to creating a positive public opinion. Also, aiming at the development of the
educational/ academic process in the Faculty. Hence, the Faculty has prepared
and developed the Ethical Charter Guide for the purpose of protecting the
freedom of education and insuring the academic equity in addition to being a
remedy to the breaches that are committed by the parties who adhere to the
charter.
Guide of General Principles
1)
Integrity: Honesty begins by the individuals themselves then extends to others,
thus it should reflect the application of ethics as
ideal practices.
2)
Responsibility &
Efficiency:- Responsibility and
efficiency develop thanks to the democratic and ethical management that ensures
the fulfillment of a very precise and tight balance between the need for
effective management and the need for encouraging the entire contributions of
the Faculty staff through allowing the professors, researchers, students, and
administrative officials in the decision making process.
3)
Mutual Respect:- The Faculty Staff should be treated with great respect and fairness
while committing to deal in the same way no matter what their ranks are in the
career hierarchy.
4)
Verification of Truth
and Positive Criticism:- Truth and positive
criticism are two basic principles for searching for and reviewing the teaching
methodology that is adopted by the Faculty since the verification of the truth
requires the availability of great efficiency and critical observation of the
facts and experiments; while comparing the different points of view, the
accuracy of resources and the cognitive precision. Besides, the scientific
research that has been conducted should be based on academic integrity and
social influence.
5)
Academic Freedom:- This principle is considered as the basis element of University activity
because it is a method for guaranteeing the process of expressing the entire
critical opinions without any oppression or omission in the light of respecting
the rights of others.
6)
Fairness: Impartiality and objectivity are two fundamental prerequisites for
ensuring the application of fairness during the exams, recruitment, assessment,
and promotion processes.
7)
Efficiency:- Each member of the Staff
should perform his/her assigned duties efficiently as such member will
bear full responsibility for his/her decisions and acts. Moreover, the members
of the Faculty Staff are also responsible for the right and accurate
utilization of the resources and information that are in his/her possession.
8)
Non- Bias: Each member of the Staff should be impartial and objective in the process
of decision making within the framework of respecting the applicable rules and guaranteeing
the fair treatment of all other colleagues and performance of all the tasks
vested to his/her; while avoiding any kind of bias for a person/party more than
the other.
2) The Faculty Staff, Assistants, and Students:-
The
Faculty has developed this ethical charter with a view to enhancing the association
of each member of the his message and vision alongside with his contribution in
the development of the society.
This Guide
includes the following points:-
1.
The Ethical Guide to the
Relationship with Colleagues.
2.
The Ethical Guide to Teaching
Methodologies.
3.
The Ethical Guide to Research,
Authorship, and Supervision on MAs and PhDs.
4.
The Ethical Guide to Students'
Assessment and Organization of the Exams.
5.
The Ethical Guide to the
Relationship with Students.
6.
The Ethical Guide to the
Relationship between the Students and the Faculty Staff.
7.
The Ethical Guide to Community
Service.
8.
Procedures adopted for
preserving the Copyrights and Authorship Rights.
9.
Professional Ethics that
are to be followed when accepting any presents or donations.
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The Ethical Guide to
the Relationship with Colleagues:-
The Faculty staff and their assistants should comply with the
following:-
1)
Respect the rights of the
other colleagues and accept the mutual advices and recommendations.
2)
Beware/watch your language
and words with colleagues, administrative officials, and students.
3)
Beware of your language
attitude and choice of words with colleagues, administrative officials, and
students.
4)
Keenness on Scientific Mutual
Exchange and Co-operation.
5)
Flexibility in the
relationship with the colleagues without any bias towards any of the faculty
staff more than the others because of their gender, age, or religion.
6)
Future Planning.
7)
Effective support on both
the professional and personal levels in order to solve the various problems.
8)
Maximizing the positive
values and minimizing negative values.
9)
Adherence to integrity with
colleagues and preservation of confidential data and Information.
10) Keenness on the interest of the colleagues.
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The Ethical Guide to Teaching
Methodologies:-
1)
– To excuse oneself to
teach any courses or supervise or judge or discuss any MAs or PhDs that are
pertaining to any of the staff relatives till the fourth degree.
2)
Self- Confidence and preservation of the
physical appearance as appropriate to the professional position.
3)
Selecting appropriate and
precise words.
4)
Complying with the
religious aspect, customs, and traditions.
5)
Controlling personal
emotions and reactions.
6)
Co-operating with all
colleagues and students.
7)
Awareness of the entire
community problems.
8)
Integrity and devotion at
work.
9)
Reviewing courses'
description that the teaching staff and their assistants will teach, sign, and
proposals, amendments or additions so as to be presented to the council of the
competent department or to the Students' Affairs Committee in case such course
is a general one.
10)
Good and accurate
preparation of the scientific courses so as to be aware of its latest developments
in order to excel its developments which qualify such member to efficiently
teach the course.
11)
Careful and regular
preparation of both (exercises and laboratory sessions) before delivering the
lecture and within a sufficient time so as to cover the entire new elements of
the course.
12)
The member of the teaching
staff should explain the objective of the course to the students and its
relation to the labor market so as to be familiar with the entire details of
the syllabus, their assignments, and quizzes.
13)
The load of the course work
should be included in the entire utilized materials so as to measure the level
of students' benefits.
14)
Members of the teaching
staff and their assistants should specify and announce certain office hours for
helping the students and answering their inquiries; noting that such hours
should not overlap with the dates and times of their lectures and laboratory
sessions.
15)
Good exploitation of the
lectures for achieving interests of not only the students but also of the
University and the whole society.
16)
Developing the students' cognitive skills and
urging them to think independently respecting their opinions.]
17)
Urging the students to the
effective participation through following the common conversation norms and
principles and as per the etiquette of conversation so as to create better
educational opportunities.
18)
Excelling in the teaching
skills and methodologies in addition to utilizing the latest tools and software
that are to help him/her to deliver an interesting lecture.
19)
Deliver the lectures and
all the practical sessions with great integrity and devotion for developing the
cognitive and moral growth in addition to following up the students'
performance as much as possible.
20)
Present a good example of
the democratic values that are related to the freedom of thought, expression,
and equity. He/she should work on developing the value in the students.
21)
Adherence to the right
guidance of the students regarding the entire sources of knowledge and
references that may help them fulfill the necessary academic achievement.
22)
Awareness of the scholarships offered in the
field of specialization and urging the students to benefit from these
opportunities.
23)
Refraining from giving any
private tutoring under any
circumstances either paid or unpaid.
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The Ethical Guide to Research,
Authorship and Supervision of Scientific Dissertations:-
1)
The researcher should
improve his/her capabilities and enrich his/her information through constant
reviewing of all of the latest parts that are published in scientific journals
and periodicals.
2)
Conducting Researches that are to serve the community
and humanity as a main ethical commitment of their profession and Keenness on
publishing his/her researches in international conferences or scientific
journals for upgrading the academic level of the Faculty and the University.
3)
Integrity in implementing
his/her researches, thus he/she should not plagiarize and attribute his/her ideas
and work. Using others' works should be known and limited.
4)
Attributing the entire books and publications to their
real authors and writers. It is not ethically appropriate to replace the names
of the references for the purpose of having any financial gains or elevated
scientific status.
5)
The number of quotes
written from source literary work should be clear and comprehensible without
any ambiguity or relapse. References should be clearly mentioned without omitting
any parts of the conveyed texts
6)
Roles of the individuals who
are participating in the research should be accurately explained while
refraining from including any names as a compliment.
7)
The data mentioned in the
curriculum studied by the students should be updated for avoidance of the
presentation of any wrongful or inaccurate information to those students.
8)
Respecting Intellectual Property Rights of
others through following the entire legal procedures for reserving the property
rights of the books and publications of the teaching staff and their
assistants.
9)
Integrity and objectivity
when selecting the topic of the thesis and the research.
10) Insuring the ability of the researcher to implement his/her research
under the supervision of the competent professor.
11) Encouraging the researcher to the creative thinking in the field of
specialization and to provide the necessary scientific assistance and support
that should not exceed the rates so that the students will bear his/her
responsibility or less than the acceptable rates which may deprive the students
from benefiting from their supervising professors.
12)
Qualifying the students to
bear the responsibility of their researches, analyses, and conclusions, while
developing their readiness to defend them.
13)
Continuous emphasis on
integrity and confidentiality.
14)
Training students on the independent assessment and
free selection when implementing their research. Students should bear
responsibility for their decisions.
15)
The precise and fair
judgment of the researches either those researches the professor is supervising
or is intending to participate in its judgment.
16)
Refraining from competing
with other colleagues for supervising theses of postgraduate students and
committing to the rules that regulate such procedures adopted by the competent
department or the Council of the Faculty.
17) Refraining from dealing in any humiliating or inappropriate behavior
when in contact with the students or discrediting their abilities either when
conducting the research or at public viva of
dissertations' discussions. This may lead the professor to violate the
ethical responsibility that is related to the ethical, righteous, and
educational growth of the students.
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Ethical Guide to
Students' Assessment and Preparation of the Exams:-
1)
Announcing the dates of any
exams within a sufficient period of time prior to their preparation while
committing to set exams that are suitable for determining the level of
students' understanding of the courses that have been taught adding to
measuring applied abilities of the Students'. These exams should be set in a
way that contributes to revealing the differences between the educational
achievements of each student.
2)
Adhering to the exams
schedule as announced by the Faculty's administration.
3)
Abiding by fairness and
quality procedures when designing the exams so that the exams be set in
consistence with what is being taught or attained in order to differentiate
between the various levels of students.
4)
The questions of the exams
should not be disclosed or revealed as this contradicts the fulfillment of
fairness and efficiency requirements in the process of students' education.
5)
Regulating the exams in a
way that ensures the application of firmness and fairness.
6)
Abiding by accuracy,
fairness, and discipline at the examination rooms.
7)
The member of the teaching
staff should be in attendance during the exams of any courses that he/she has
taught so as to answer the questions and inquiries of all of the students
clearly.
8)
Cheating should be –
completely prevented, and in case of asserting that any of the students has
cheated, such student should be punished.
9)
Members of the Faculty
Staff should not set or control any exams that are sat for by their relatives.
10) Model answers of each exam should be provided so as to be graded based
on them.
11) Accuracy in grading the answer sheets, preparing, and organizing the results
with great confidentiality and preciseness.
12) Results should be presented to the examiners' committee without
disclosing any names for the purpose of taking the necessary decision and so as
to ensure the fulfillment of fairness and equity.
13) Results grading process should be performed accurately and with great
confidentiality.
14) The final results should be audited in the event of presenting any
grievances that is to be seriously considered.
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Ethical Guide of Dealing
with Students:-
1)
Students are of various types,
thus each of them should be treated with the appropriate methods.
2)
Education is known to be
the right of each student, therefore; such right should not be denied through
refraining from withholding any information students may need; noting that you
should answer all the inquiries of the students and clarify any ambiguous
points.
3)
The lecturer should not
leave the lecture room except after confirming that the students have
comprehended the points that were tackled and covered at the lecture.
4)
Students should be treated according
to a humanitarian concept without exploiting the authority that is granted to
the members of the teaching staff. Good treatment of the students fulfills the
intended objectives and creates a friendly relationship between the students
and the faculty staff.
5)
Penalties and sanctions should be applied on
any non-committed or violating student as agreed and announced by the
administration of the faculty.
6)
Students' personal freedom
should be respected.
7)
Students should be
encouraged to discuss and manage any dialogue or conversation with the members
of the teaching staff and the assistants for determining their talents and be encouraged
to innovation and creation in the entire fields of life.
8)
Teaching methodologies
should be updated as per the most recent international academic fields so as to
cope with the current developments.
9)
Students should be provided
with the knowledge and experience of the members of the teaching staff when
preparing projects, researches, and studies.
10) Compliance with objectivity when assessing the students without any
compliments under any circumstances.
11) Spreading the spirit of cooperation among the students and urging them
to teamwork and refraining from individualism.
12) Committing to the dates of the lectures and office hours in addition to
supervising the performance of the students in the different activities of the
Faculty and to promoting the righteous values and morals of the students.
13) Participating in the students' activities, encouraging their talents in
an innovative way that contributes to the righteous ethical building of the
students' consciousness.
14) Promoting the ethical and behavioral values in the students so as to be a
role model for the whole Faculty - as an academic institution that is concerned
with research and community service- when enrolling into the labor market.
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Ethical Guide to
University Service:-
1.
Performing the entire required
tasks accurately and with devotion to the purpose of upgrading the entire
affairs of the Faculty in particular and the University in general, alongside
with overcoming the impediments standing against the implementation of such
affairs.
2.
Exerting all the necessary
efforts for assisting and developing the skills of the teaching staff members
including all of the assistant lecturers, demonstrators, or any member of the
teaching staff who is of lower career hierarchy or who has less experience when
required.
3.
Loyalty to the Faculty and
refraining from seeking any personal benefits or gains.
4.
The teaching staff members
and their assistants should be aware of the strategy adopted by the University
and the Faculty in addition to the awareness of the Faculty's vision and
mission.
5.
Preserving the public funds
using all the necessary methods either through the materials such member is
utilizing or through expressing his/her opinion and participation in the
competent committees.
6.
Complying with the entire
applicable regulations, laws, and systems that organize the academic process in
the Faculty.
7.
Honorable representation of
the Faculty which the member of the teaching staff is representing.
8.
Refraining from exploiting
the equipment and capabilities except for teaching purposes and for conducting
the necessary scientific researches.
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Ethical Guide to Community
Service:-
Members of teaching staff and their assistants are of the most
influential members in the whole society, thus they should possess the entire
positive ethics that contribute to community service of which are:-
1)
Performance of his/her work
professionally and with devotion.
2)
Contribution
to the development of the whole community through his/her skills, and cultures
for improving the whole society.
3)
Capability of adapting to
different cultures and categories of the society on all of the personal,
academic, and practical levels.
4)
Participating in the
various seminars and conferences that serve and develop the society.
5)
To be a role model and good
example for the whole society members through the enhancement of the ethical,
religious, and cultural values of the society.
6)
Keenness on developing the applied
research process while linking it to the real labor market.
7)
Keenness on preparing the
human potentials that are needed by the society and providing them with the
most recent experiences and academic knowledge.
8)
Teaching staff members
should participate in all of the seminars that aim at the development of the
community in the field of specialization.
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Procedures adopted for
preserving the Copyrights and Authorship Rights:-
1)
Preventing the utilization
of the entire ready unlicensed software in the Faculty.
2)
Preventing the employees of
the Faculty from copying any literary works as this will represent a violation
to the rights of the author so as to protect both the technical and literary
papers.
3)
Setting the necessary
guidelines for the visitors of the library and the labs in order to guarantee
the compliance with the rules listed in the intellectual property law.
4)
Holding open seminars and meetings
for discussing the intellectual property rights, their importance, and the
necessity to comply with these rights.
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Professional Ethics
that are to be followed when accepting any gifts or donations:-
1)
It is not permitted to
accept any donations or gifts from any authority except upon obtaining the
consent of the University Council; noting that such donations should be
presented to the Faculty.
2)
In case the Faculty has
already obtained any kind of presents or donations or endowments from any local
or foreign authority, such gifts or donations should be received after
confirming the consent of the Faculty and the University Councils so as for the
attitude of the Faculty to be transparent and away from any suspects.
3)
The acceptance of any gifts
or donations by the Faculty, should not –by any means – affect the decisions or
the policies of the University.
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Ethical Guide to the
Faculty Dean:-
1.
The Faculty Dean is the
only person who is concerned with determining the management methodology of the
Faculty; this methodology will directly impact the general atmosphere of the
whole Faculty and the organizational environment. It would be illogical if the
Dean insists on managing the Faculty with an oppressive way that focuses on shutting
up the opponents and encouraging the supporters.
2.
The development of the
Faculty Staff's and Students' democratic values always requires a suitable atmosphere
and actual practice so that all of the competent parties comprehend the
importance of expressing their opinions through the entire legal channels.
3.
The Faculty Dean should be
responsible for developing the values of discipline, commitment, and time
respect, in addition to controlling the behavior of the Faculty Staff, setting the schedules, and the attendance
timings in general, confirming the commitment of all the staff to their duties
and obligations, applying the accountability measures in the event of any
negligence, taking the necessary corrective measures, punishing the violating
parties and rewarding those who are performing their jobs with devotion.
4.
The Faculty dean should
treat the professors, employees, and students of the Faculty with fairness and equality
so as to contribute through this behavior in the development of the
aforementioned values.
5.
The Faculty Dean should
contribute to the moral and educational development of the Faculty through the
assertion on teamwork atmosphere in order for all the staff to work in teams and
within various groups, and that the success of working within these teams is
still possible and its opportunities are larger.
6.
The relationship between the
Faculty Dean and the students' guardians should reflect the keenness of the
Dean on the interests of the Students. Such keenness is considered as a main
professional commitment that deepens the mutual responsibility between the
aforementioned parties regarding the righteous ethical development of the
students and affirms the importance of the conversational values for the
purpose of solving the entire academic and non-academic problems.
7.
The Faculty Dean should
bear full responsibility for controlling both the exams and behavior of the
students with the aim of preventing any cheating, leniency, or rigidity.
8.
The aforementioned points
are also connected with the Dean's responsibility for developing fair
competition culture so as to pave the way before equal opportunities principle
and highlight any excellency, develop any talents, prove the efficiency of any
of the members for promoting the importance of excellency, the acceptance of
the others' professionalism, and the legal pursue to reach such excellency.
9.
The Faculty Dean is also responsible for
creating a very safe and satisfying academic and psychological atmosphere for
all of the Faculty Staff who are expected to be more innovative, creative, and
able to express their opinions and thoughts freely.
10.The
Faculty Dean is responsible for protecting the public orders in the Faculty.
11.The
Faculty Dean should be responsible for the efficient utilization of the
available resources and especially the public funds, and thus rationalize the
spending, and taking the precautionary measures when empowering any authorities
when purchasing, and when forming any committees such as: opening sessions'
committee, receipt committee, and decision making committees that are concerned
with reserving the public funds.
12. The
Faculty Dean should be precise and objective when forming the selection or
estimation or inspection or scientific committees, or any other committees that
may affect individuals or the University.
13.The
Faculty Dean should achieve the necessary balance between both his/her
professional and human obligations. The mentioned Dean should not take any
procedures that are related to the promotion of any of the members of the teaching
staff without ascertaining the academic and professional entitlement of the
member to such promotion and should refrain from suspending or delaying any
promotion of any of the members for personal reasons. The Dean should care for
the public interest and the interest of the member to be promoted.
14.The
Faculty Dean should bear full responsibility for the development and
availability of the opportunities before the young leaders as the qualification
of such young leaders or second or third generations of responsible and
professional leaders is considered as the main professional responsibility of
the University Leaders.
15.The
Faculty Dean is responsible for taking the entire procedures that preserve the
dignity and status of the University professors or the reputation of the University
itself.
16.The
Faculty Dean should guide and direct the teaching staff and employees of the
Faculty to community service due to be a basic part of the University
responsibility and direct the University activities to enhance such
responsibility as required.
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Ethical Guide to the
Administrative Bodies
1.
Performing the assigned
tasks accurately and with great integrity, objectivity, and impartiality
regardless of the workflow and without affecting the personal ideologies or
beliefs.
2.
Preserving the public funds
of the Faculty whether the trusteeships or the resources that are being
utilized in the same way of preserving private and personal funds without
permitting their utilization for personal benefits.
3.
Emphasizing the importance
of cooperation and teamwork for the purpose of achieving the anticipated
success.
4.
Emphasizing the importance
of friendly spirit and refraining from forming any unofficial groups or dealing
with any intolerance or prejudice.
5.
Preserving respect of
senior professors and conveying entire experiences to junior members, while
committing to conversational orders when discussing any difference of opinions.
6.
Rejecting any negative
habits such as envy, mistrust, secrets disclosure, and spreading of rumors….etc.
7.
Employees of the Faculty
should cope with the entire recent aspects in the field of Information
Technology; in addition to asserting on the democracy of the administration of
the Faculty for general good.
8. Improving social relationships between colleagues in various occasions.
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Ethics of
relationships with the scientific and administrative councils and committees:
Among the
crucial ethical principles that the Faculty's or the University's scientific and administrative councils and committees should adhere to
are:
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Confidentiality /Anonymity
Principle.
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Objectivity Principle.
-
Adherence to decisions
principle.
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Effective Participation
Principle.
