The Public Interest Safeguard

The interests of your clients provided that they do not conflict with the duties and loyalties owed to the community, its laws and social and political institutions. In performing work for a client your priority should be to satisfy that client's needs and to meet the specifications to which you are committed. If, however, in meeting these requirements you are forced to breach law or inflict damage upon a third party, then you are professionally responsible to make the client aware of these consequences and agree on an alternative course of action.

Integrity

Do not breach public trust in the profession or the specific trust of your clients and employers. Observance of utmost honesty and integrity must underlie all your professional decisions and actions. Circumstances will undoubtedly arise during the course of your professional career where it may appear to be beneficial for you to deceive your client in some way. The resultant short term gains from this type of behaviour is not acceptable professional practice, nor is it worth eroding the confidence and trust that is built up over the longer term.

Confidentiality

You must not disclose information acquired in the course of your professional work except where consent has been obtained from the rightful legal owner or where there is a legal or professional duty to disclose. This is applicable to most professions, but it is particularly applicable to you as an Professional as you are likely to have access to clients' information due to the nature of your work. You should be aware that information is the property of the client, and must not be distributed freely or used for your personal advantage or that of a third party without the client's consent.

Objectivity and Independence

Be objective, impartial and free of conflicts of interest in the performance of your professional duties.

In each professional assignment undertaken, you must be seen to be free of any interest which is incompatible with objectivity. Always make sure you are aware of your client's objectives and the benefits he/she is looking for, and be careful not to lose objectivity created by the latest development technology or by the desire to promote your own product.

In the situation where a conflict exists between two or more clients, a full and frank explanation and disclosure of the conflict should be made to the clients.

Competence

Accept only such work as you believe you are competent to perform and do not hesitate to obtain additional expertise from appropriately qualified individuals where advisable.

You should always be aware of your own limitations and not knowingly imply that you have competence you do not possess. This, of course, is distinct from accepting a task of which the successful completion requires expertise additional to your own. You cannot possibly be knowledgeable on all facets of Information Technology but you should be able to recognise when you need additional expertise and information.

Keeping Up-To-Date

Keep yourself, and subordinates, informed of such new programmes, practices and standards as are relevant to your duties.

Others will expect you to provide professional special skills and advice; and in order to do so, you must keep your knowledge up-to-date. This is true for members of all professions, but particularly so in all areas which is developing and changing rapidly. You must also encourage your staff and colleagues to do the same, for it is impossible to retain one's professional standing by relying only on the state of one's knowledge and competence at the time professional status is achieved.

Subordinates

Ensure subordinates are trained in order to be effective in their duties and to qualify for increased responsibilities.

Take action to ensure that your hard gained knowledge and experience are passed on in such a way that those who receive it not only improve their own effectiveness in their present positions but also become keen to advance their careers and take on additional responsibilities.

Responsibility to Your Members

Actively seek opportunities for increasing efficiency and effectiveness to the benefit of the members.

Whatever the precise terms of your brief, you should always be aware of the environment surrounding it and not work solely towards completion of the defined task. You must regard it as part of your duty to make your members aware of other needs that emerge, unsatisfactory procedures that need modification and benefits that might be achieved. You, as an professional association, should take into account the relevance of new methods and should always be looking for the possibility of additional benefits not foreseen when the project was planned.

Code of Academic Integrity

Principle

Absolute integrity is expected of every UKAP student in all academic undertakings. Integrity entails a firm adherence to a set of values, and the values most essential to an academic community are grounded on the concept of honesty with respect to the intellectual efforts of oneself and others. Academic integrity is expected not only in formal coursework situations, but in all Global partners’ relationships and interactions connected to the educational process, including the use of Global partners’ resources. While a UKAP student's submission of work for academic credit indicates that the work is the student's own. All outside assistance should be acknowledged, and the student's academic position truthfully reported at all times. In addition, UKAP students have a right to expect academic integrity from each of their peers.

Examples of Violations

A student shall not in any other manner violate the principle of academic integrity. Integrity and subject their actors to proceedings under the Code.

This is not a definitive list.

Examples of Violations

The following actions are examples of activities that violate the Code of Academic

1. Knowingly representing the work of others as one's own.

2. Using, obtaining, or providing unauthorized assistance on examinations, papers, or any other academic work.

3. Fabricating data in support of laboratory or field work.

4. Forging a signature to certify completion of a course assignment or a recommendation to graduate school.

5. Unfairly advancing one's academic position by hoarding or damaging library materials.

6. Misrepresenting one's academic accomplishments.

Specific Guidelines for Courses Examinations

During in-class examinations student may not use, give, or receive any assistance or information not given in the examination or by the examiner. Student may not take an examination for another student. Between the time a take-home examination is distributed and the time it is submitted by the student for grading, the student may not consult with any persons other than the course professor and teaching assistants regarding the examination. The student is responsible for understanding the conditions under which the examination will be taken.

Guidelines for Students

General Responsibilities

1. A student shall in no way misrepresent his or her work.

2. A student shall in no way fraudulently or unfairly advance his or her academic position.

3. A student shall refuse to be a party to another student's failure to maintain academic integrity.

Course Assignments

Students are encouraged to discuss the content of a course among themselves and to help each other to master it, but no student should receive help in doing a course assignment that is meant to test what he or she can do without help from others. Representing another's work as one's own is plagiarism and a violation of this Code. If materials are taken from published sources the student must clearly and completely cite the source of such materials. Work submitted by a student and used by a global partner member in the determination of a grade in a course may not be submitted by that student in a second course, unless such submission is approved in advance by the faculty member in the second course. If a student is submitting all or part of the same work simultaneously for the determination of a grade in two or more different courses, all academic teacher members in the courses involved must approve such submissions.

Academic Misconduct

An Examiner may impose a grade penalty for any misconduct. Students are not authorized to replicate, reproduce, copy, or transmit lectures and course materials presented, or "derivative" materials including class notes, for sale or general distribution to others without the written consent of the faculty or academic staff member or class participant who is the original source of such materials. Other examples of academic misconduct include, but are not limited to, talking during an examination, bringing unauthorized materials into the examination room, and disruptive behavior in the classroom. a. The faculty member must promptly notify the student of the reason for the imposition of a penalty for academic misconduct and the degree to which his or her grade will be affected. b. Academic misconduct is not a violation of academic integrity. The student may, however, seek review by the Academic Integrity Hearing Board on the basis either that the finding of guilt is arbitrary and capricious or that the penalty for academic misconduct is excessive or inappropriate to the circumstances involved. ("Arbitrary and capricious" describes actions which have no sound basis in law, fact, or reason or are grounded solely in bad faith or personal desires. A determination is arbitrary and capricious only if it is one no reasonable mind could reach.)

Principles for Computer Use and Network Systems

The use of computers and network systems in no way exempts students from the normal requirements of ethical behavior in the UKAP Global Partners community. Use of a computer and network system that is shared by many users imposes certain additional obligations. In particular, data, software and computer capacity have value and must be treated accordingly. Although some rules are built into computer and network systems, such restrictions cannot limit completely what students can do. In any event students are responsible for their actions whether or not rules are built in, and whether or not they can circumvent them.

Standards of behavior include:

1. Respect for the privacy of other users' information, even when that information is not securely protected.

2. Respect for the ownership of proprietary software. For example, unauthorized copies of such software for one's own use, even when that software is not protected against copying is inappropriate.

3. Respect for the finite capacity of the system and limitation of use so as not to interfere unreasonably with the activity of other users.

4. Respect for the procedures established to manage the use of the system.

Variances

A faculty member is responsible for informing his or her students and teaching assistants of variances from this Code that apply to work in his or her course. These variances should be clearly stated in writing at the beginning of the course or activity to which they apply.

Jurisdiction and Penalties

The authority to determine whether a specific action shall be treated as a violation of the Code of Academic Integrity lies with the Academic Integrity Hearing Board. Those who violate the Code of Academic Integrity will be subject to penalties under this Code and may also be subject to penalties under state and federal laws.