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Code of professional ethics for teachers
Poverty affecting student chances in UK Campus Notes
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Code of professional ethics for teachers HIGHER education is important for developing the manpower which has potential to develop cutting edge technology. Our country is dominated with young people and if such a vast potential is remained untapped, it will be a sheer wastage of our human resources. Recently, a four-member committee of the National Council of Teacher Education (NCET) suggested that every newly recruited teacher should be administered a 23-point code of professional ethics to enhance the dignity of teaching profession. Teaching has been accepted as profession and is treated as such, though it will be unfair to confine the teacher within the limited scope of the definition of a professional. The term “professional” is loosely used and generally understood to mean one who is very good at a particular thing and is paid for exercising that particular talent. Somerset Maugham wrote, “One of the great differences between amateur and the professional is that the later has the capacity to progress.” Since we have the third largest professional workforce in the world, and going by what Somerset Maugham said, we should be amply blessed with capacity to progress. However, it is well known that the quality of teachers at different levels and hence the quality of pass-outs from schools, colleges and professional institutions leaves much to be desired and is a major impediment to our progress. Teachers are expected to imbibe a value system because value-based education is not possible without value-based teachers. The major difference between the past masters and the teachers of today is their ability to realise their own potential and use the same for “man-making” of the student. The teacher is expected by society to respect the noble profession he has voluntarily taken up and conduct in a manner befitting the role of an ideal teacher. Since a student, on an average, spends more than 30,000 hours in school up to Class XII, it is amply clear that the teacher shapes the future of young minds to a large extent. All professionals and professional bodies are guided by a code of professional ethics. Doctors, engineers, lawyers, managers, etc., have their specific code of conduct and charter of duties and responsibilities. That there is a need for a similar code of professional ethics for a teacher does not need any debate. Any such code for the teacher should be based on the principles of service to society, responsiveness to the needs of society, accountability, fairness and integrity and effectiveness. A suggested code of ethics for teachers is as follows: General responsibilities
and obligations (a) I recognise that the special responsibilities placed on me for the advancement of knowledge of my students is a contribution towards nation-building. (b) I shall take all possible initiatives to enlarge the understanding of my field by keeping abreast with the latest in my field and other closely allied areas. I will subscribe to at least one professional journal. (c) I shall enrol myself as member of some professional body of good standing, connected with my field and contribute articles and research papers to such body. (d) I shall adopt all possible means which help me in developing the “spirit of enquiry” in my students. (e) I shall use only ethical methods of protest to get my demands fulfilled. (f) I shall develop my self and make all efforts to realise my full potential. Responsibilities
towards students (a) My basic instructional and teaching duties will take priority over all other type of work undertaken by me or assigned to me. (b) I shall not take extra coaching or tuitions outside the classroom for any consideration what so ever. I will discourage students to take such coaching/ tuitions. (c) I will strive to be fair and just in evaluation of students’ work and give the right to the student to have it reassessed in case the student is not satisfied. (d) I shall never take any advantage of my privileged position and allow “professional democracy” to my students, peers and juniors. I will not accept personal benefit in any form from the students, parents, etc. (e) I shall do my best to encourage responsible behaviour among my students and help them become good citizens. (f) I will counsel students without any fee or any other form of consideration when they need my help. (g) I shall act with probity in my daily work activities and decision-making. (h) I shall protect my students from any form of harm. Responsibilities towards institution (a) I will willingly take on assigned administrative work of my department / institution. (b) I shall abide by the policies, rules, regulation and procedures adopted by the institution I serve. (c) I shall maintain confidentiality of my department/ institution and share it with others only on “need-to-know” basis. It is hoped that every teacher of integrity will voluntarily subscribe to the above code of professional conduct.
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Poverty affecting student chances in UK GROWING numbers of pupils are coming to school tired and hungry as a result of increased poverty, a teachers’ survey has revealed. In one case, a child had not eaten for three days because their mother could not afford to buy any more food until pay day. Staff report that pupils have to be helped from the classroom by first aiders because they feel weak from undernourishment. In addition, fewer parents are finding that they are able to afford the extras to send their children on school trips. The survey, carried out by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, UK, revealed that four out of five staff said they had students who were suffering from the effectys of living in poverty. One in four felt the numbers had increased as a result of the recession. Mary Bousted, general secretary of the ATL, said: “It is appalling that in 2011 so many children in the UK are severely disadvantaged by their circumstances and fail to achieve their potential.” The survey of more than 500 teachers uncovered harrowing tales of the impact of poverty on children. “We have children who miss classes because they cannot afford the bus fare or cost of other transport to get to college,” said Anne Pegum, a further education college teacher from Hertfordshire. “We have students who miss out on meals because they do not have money to pay for them and in some cases then feel unwell and have to be helped by our first aiders.” A teacher working with sixth-formers in Nottingham added she had a student who had not eaten for three days “as their mother had no money until pay day”. The survey showed that the most obvious effects of poverty were children coming to school tired (cited by 80.2 per cent of respondents) and arriving hungry (73.1 per cent). In addition, 67 per cent were arriving without the proper uniform or wearing worn-out clothes. Craig Macartney, a secondary school teacher from Suffolk, added: “More children from middle to lower income families are not going on school trips and these families find it difficult to meet the basic cost of living.” The growing levels of poverty coincide with the government’s decision to scrap education maintenance allowances of up to £30 a week to encourage youngsters to stay on at school or college after the age of 16. — The Independent
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Campus Notes SCOT SLESSOR, Consul General, Consulate General of Canada at Chandigarh recently visited the university and interacted with its faculty and higher officials to explore the possibilities of collaboration in research and other academic programmes between India and Canada. Prof. Rajinderjit Kaur Pawar, Dean, Academic Affairs, apprised the visiting dignitary of the academic, sports, cultural and other activities and achievements of the university. Impressed with the progress made by the university, Scot Slessor assured the university official of high-quality research collaborations in different thrust areas of science and technology, including material sciences, environmental and life sciences, with GND University. Fellowships, exchange programmes of students and faculty and training progammes were also discussed during the interaction.
Workshop on panel data analysis
To equip the teachers and researchers of the country to respond to the challenges of researching environment, a national workshop on "Panel Data Analysis" was organised recently at Maharaja Ranjit Singh Bhawan of the university under the auspices of its Department of Commerce and Business Management. A large number of teachers, academicians and researchers from different institutions across the country participated in the workshop. According to Dr B. S. Hundal, director of the workshop, the workshop was organised after realising the need to sharpen and enhance the researching acumen of the committed researchers. Dr. Gurpreet Randhawa, Organising Secretary of the Workshop said that the workshop was spread in four-sessions with the intent to take the participants from the basics of regression into the specialized domain of panel data analysis. Moreover, it intends to train them in the finer nuances of panel data which tend to haunt the researchers as a hobgoblin, she added.
Environmental awareness campaign
Recently, the university organised a number of events like slogan-writing competition, plantation drive, shramdan camp and cleaning drive as part of the National Environmental Awareness Campaign (NEAC)-2011 here under the aegis of its Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences. The programme was sponsored by the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (PSCST), Chandigarh, and was founded by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. Prof A.S. Ahluwalia, Dean, Faculty of Sciences, and Chairman, Department of Environmental Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, was the chief guest on the occasion. Dr Ahluwalia and Dr Sushma Kaul gave away prizes to the winners. Dr Saroj Arora, Head of the Department, said in the slogan writing competition Rakesh Kumar, Ph.D scholar, won the first prize, while Harpreet Kaur of M.Sc (Hons School) Botany stood second and the third prize went to Sartaj Ahmed Bhat, an M.Phil (Environment Sciences) student of the host department. The plantation drive was launched in the Botanical Garden of the department by planting saplings individually by Prof. A.S. Ahluwalia and Dr. Sushma Kaul. Prof. A.K. Thukral, Prof. G.S. Virk, Prof. Avinash Nagpal, Prof. Renu Bhardwaj, Dr A.S. Soodan, Rajinder Kaur, Er M.S. Bhatti, Er Bhupinder Pal Singh, Dr Rajbir Singh, research scholars, students, non-teaching and gardening staff of the department also participated in the plantation drive.
Decision hailed
While hailing the decision of the Punjab Cabinet, recommending the six sick sugar mills and three distilleries to run on the built own, operate and transfer (BOOT) basis, Dr R.S.S. Kaler, Head of the Department of Food Science and Technology, urged the Centre and states to formulate a new alcohol policy as it was the sugar industry that provided pollution-free ethanol blended fuel and, therefore, reducing the effect of global warming. "The sugar industry is the only agro-based industry in the world which generates its own power from biomass and supplies to the state grid that could run the transport sector by supplying ethanol for blending in petrol and diesel and save millions of dollars," he said.
New courses
The admission to new B.Tech (Electronics Technology) and B.Tech (Computer Science) courses for the session 2011-12 will be done at Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Government College, Sathiala. This college has recently been taken over by the university as per the decision of the Punjab government for giving boost to higher education in the region. Dr Inderjit Singh, Registrar of the university, said the courses which were already running at the college would continue. He said admission to these courses would also be done in this academic session along with other vocational courses. The university would also start more job-oriented courses keeping in view the demand of the region, he said. — Contributed by G.S. Paul
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Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
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HIGHER education is important for developing the manpower which has potential to develop cutting edge technology. Our country is dominated with young people and if such a vast potential is remained untapped, it will be a sheer wastage of our human resources.
Recently, a four-member committee of the National Council of Teacher Education
(NCET) suggested that every newly recruited teacher should be administered a 23-point code of professional ethics to enhance the dignity of teaching profession.