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CODE OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

Professionally accepted standards of personal and business behaviour, values and guiding principles. Codes
of professional ethics are often established by professional organizations to help to guide members in
performing their job functions according to sound and consistent ethical principles Professional ethics may
be understood as professionally acknowledged measures of individual and business conduct, values, and
guiding principles. Professional ethics is nothing but a code of conduct applicable to different professions
and is set up by the expert members of such profession or professional organizations. The underlying
philosophy of having professional ethics is to make the persons performing in such jobs to follow the sound,
uniform ethical conduct. Hippocratic Oath undertaken by medical students is one such example of
professional ethics that is adhered by even today. Some of the important components of professional ethics
that professional organizations necessarily include in their code of conduct are integrity, honesty,
transparency, respectfulness towards the job, confidentiality, objectivity etc.

Need for Professional Ethics

Professional ethics are accepted standards of personal and business behaviour, values and guiding
principles. Codes of professional ethics are established by professional organizations to help to guide
members in performing their job functions according to sound and consistent ethical principles. Professional
ethics is set up by the expert members of such profession or professional organizations. The underlying
philosophy of having professional ethics is to make the persons performing in such jobs to follow the sound,
uniform ethical conduct. Professional organizations necessarily include components like integrity, honesty,
transparency, respectfulness towards the job, confidentiality, objectivity etc. in their code of conduct.

I TEACHERS AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES

Whoever adopts teaching as a profession assumes the obligation to conduct himself / herself in accordance
with the ideal of the profession. A teacher is constantly under the scrutiny of his / her students and the
society at large. Therefore, every teacher should see that there is no incompatibility between his precepts
and practice. The national ideals of education which have already been set forth and which he/she should
seek to inculcate among students must be his/her own ideals. The profession further requires that the
teachers should be calm, patient and communicative by temperament and amiable in disposition.

Teachers should:
1. Adhere to a responsible pattern of conduct and demeanour expected of them by the community.
2. Manage their private affairs in a manner consistent with the dignity of the profession.
3. Seek to make professional growth continuous through study and research.
4. Express free and frank opinion by participation at professional meetings, seminars, conferences etc.
towards the contribution of knowledge,
5. Maintain active membership of professional organisations and strive to improve education and
profession through them.
6. Perform their duties in the form of teaching, tutorial, practical, seminar and research work
conscientiously and with dedication.
7. Co-operate and assist in carrying out functions relating to the educational responsibilities of the
college and the university such as assisting in appraising applications for admission, advising and
counselling students as well as assisting the conduct of university and college examinations,
including supervision, invigilation and evaluation, and
8. Participate in extension, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities including community service

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