Academic ethics

Do academics need ethical practices?

Can we assume the academic world is ethical?

What are the significant areas where ethics will have to be reinforced?



Let me try identifying a few:

Teachers 

1. Effective reading with frequent updating

2. Impartiality to students - respecting them - being strict and focused

3. Avoiding character assassination of students

4. Avoiding character assassination of colleagues

5. Avoiding going on leave without proper reasons

Management/government etc.

6. Appointing well-qualified teachers for vacancies and taking efforts to retain 'effective' teachers

7. Not over- taxing teachers by asking them to 'substitute'

8. Not allotting too much of 'clerical work' to teachers

9.  A reasonably 'good' pay

10.  Result analysis at two levels - character and marks

11. Student feed back [oral] analysis

12. Checking if there has been any academic mobility [if students have improved from 'bad' to 'good']

13. To evolve a grievance - redressal system for teachers

14. One-to - one meetings with teachers