Code of Conduct

Code of Conduct for Teachers

No employee shall take part or subscribe to or assist in any way, any movement which tends to promote feelings of hatred or enmity between different classes of citizens of the Indian Union, or to disturb public peace.
A teacher offering himself for election to Parliament/ State Legislature shall have to resign from service; provided that on the date, the nomination of the teacher for election of the Parliament/ State Legislature is accepted, he would be deemed to have automatically vacated his office, even if he had not resigned or his resignation has not been accepted. No employee shall, except with previous permission of the governing body, own wholly or in part or conduct or participate in editing or managing of any newspaper or any periodical, or act as correspondent of a newspaper.
No employee shall in any manner criticise adversely in public any administrative action of the Governing Body of the college.
No employee shall, except in accordance with any special or general order of the governing body or in the performance in good faith of the duties assigned to him, communicate, directly or indirectly any official document or information to any employee or to any other person to whom he is not authorised to communicate such document or information.
No employee shall, except with the previous sanction of the Governing Body, engage directly or indirectly in any trade, occupation or business or undertake any employment. The permission of the Principal for undertaking private tuition work, which will not be more than one hour a day, will be necessary. No employee shall appear in any examination without obtaining prior permission of the Governing Body/ Principal; provided that a teacher may without such sanction, undertake honorary work of a purely social or charitable nature or occasional work of a Literary, artistic or scientific character, subject to condition that his official duties do not thereby suffer, but he shall not undertake or shall discontinue such work, if so directed by the Principal of his college, and in case of the Principal if so directed by the Governing Body. Provided further that no permission shall be necessary for examination work of this University or any other Indian University when the total emoluments accruing from such work do not exceed Rs. 3,000/- per annum. In case the total emoluments for all examination work exceeds Rs. 3,000/- the previous permission of the Governing Body shall be necessary. ii) No employee in an affiliated college shall write a guide or a help book or cheap notes. He shall follow the procedure laid down by the University in case he intends to publish any work.
An employee shall avoid habitual indebtedness or insolvency, an employee who becomes the subject of legal proceedings of his insolvency shall forthwith report the full facts to the Principal of his College.
No employee shall bring or attempt to bring any outside influence to bear upon the authorities of his college to further his interest in respect of matters pertaining to his service in the college.
No employee shall be a member representative or office-bearer of any association, representing or purporting to represent teachers unless such association satisfies the following conditions: (a) Its membership is confined to teachers. (b) Meetings of such an association may be held in the premises of the college after college hours or on a nonteaching day with prior permission of the principal which would normally be granted. (c) The decision taken at such meeting pertaining to the college administration shall be communicated, in writing, to the Principal within ten days.

General code of conduct

Every employee shall at all-time serve efficiently, act in a disciplined manner and maintain absolute integrity and devotion to duty.
Unless in any case it be expressly provided for, the whole time of an employee shall be at the disposal of College in such capacity and at such places as may from time to time, be directed by the Principal/Governing Body of his College, subject to such conditions as may be laid down by the University.
No employee in a college shall apply for any other job, post or scholarship without the previous sanction of the Principal of his college or, in case of the Principal, without the previous sanction of the Governing Body. Provided that persons appointed on contract basis may apply for a job or a post if the post or the job for which they are applying is to commence from a date after the expiry of the period of contract.
Save in exceptional circumstances, no employee shall absent himself from his duties without having first obtained the permission of the authority provided in the leave rules.
No employee shall take part in any activity which in the judgement of the Principal is calculated to lead to indiscipline in the college.

Code of Conduct for Students

General code of conduct has been structured in a manner that it maintains the highest standards of ‘Teacher Taught’ relationship.
All participants must ensure that the campus of the institute and its facilities are maintained in a neat and clean way.
Smoking and consumption of any alcoholic beverage or intoxicants strictly prohibited within the campus.
All the participants must strictly abide by the instructions, issued from time to time and conveyed through the notice board of the Institute.
Punjab College of Education is very serious and sensitive regarding attendance. The academic regulations require a participant to attend 75% of lectures to be eligible to take the examination. However, it is desirable that all participants attend all classes regularly. Participants attending classes over and above 75% will be suitably rewarded.
Wearing of college uniform is compulsory for the students on every Monday as well as on college functions.
Academic Discipline: Punjab College of Education attaches utmost importance to strict integrity and honesty in academic work by the participants. The participants must maintain strict discipline in class rooms, examinations, tests, quizzes, own time assignments and all other segments of academic work. Resorting to copying of helping to copy in any from in the examination, and/or reproducing passages from written work of others without necessary acknowledgement, and/or passing/receiving papers in connection with any academic work to be evaluated and/or canvassing for grade is strictly prohibited.

The following do’s and don’ts are applicable as far as the academic discipline is concerned:

Conduct of the participants in their classes as well as in the premises of the institute shall be such as will cause no disturbance to fellow participants or to other classes.
Participants must not sit in library; canteen or any other place in the institute premises while the classes are in progress

Participants shall do nothing either inside or outside the institute that will in any way interfere with its orderly administration and discipline.

All participants are expected to attend various functions organized by the college.
Participants must not engage themselves in any kind of political work in the institute’s premises
All information/hand-outs/notes etc. marked as “restricted circulation” must be retained for their own use by the participants and not passed on or communicated to any unauthorized person or organization without prior permission of the Director.

Correct information should always be given while making declarations at any points of time.

The process of mutual discussion enhances the intellectual capability of all participants. While free discussions are encouraged any uncivil, malicious, derogatory or defamatory language is avoided.

Participants must observe the timings notified and fixed for all activities such as class work, library, computer laboratory, etc.
The management of the institute reserves the right to expel a participant or make him leave the campus at any time for any academic misconduct.
For any academic problem, participants are free to seek the advice/guidance of concerned faculty member.

The participants are advised to contact Director in case they have any administrative or even personal problems which are likely to affect their academic pursuit adversely. The participants are also free to contact the Director at any time in the event of an emergency.