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A. Christian and Professional Code of Ethics
- Good Professional Governance
- Accountability
- Transparency
- Responsibility
- Responsibility
- Honesty
B. Christian and Professional Code of Ethics
- Calling
- Service
- Faithfulness
C. Faculty
- All faculty members are requested to provide proper and appropriate academic supervision of student's work both on and off the campus
- Record keeping is more than just being a useful ordering of things. It is required of all faculties as proper academic and professional information policy matter which the administration may from to time require access and other uses.
- All private/ personal meeting between faculty and students of opposite sex must be held in official places with easy public access.
- Teaching staff credentialing: Our Accreditation registry requires Master's degree for teaching in Diploma and Bachelor degree programs. Therefore, it is advised that no lower level of expertise than the aforementioned level could be accommodated in the Diploma and the degree level of teaching.
- All courses intended to be offered in Sia'atoutai Theological College need the approval of the Academic Administration.
D. Policy for Cross-Crediting of Courses
The Board of studies may, on the recommendation of the Faculty Meeting, permit a transcript from another institution to be cross-credited with appropriate grade in relation to a similar course offered at Sia'atoutai Theological College. The Cross-Credits will be considered according to these regulations:
- The previous course of studies must have been completed not more than ten years before entry to Sia'atoutai Theological College and has been undertaken at an institution that carries the accreditation offered by SPATS, MATS, ANZATS or equivalent bodies.
- Students must provide a substantial portion of the syllabus of the course in question in order to prove its compatibility with the same course offered at Sia'atoutai Theological College.
- Cross-crediting of Diploma in Theology and Bachelor of Divinity courses must be able to prove that courses in question were taught and examined in English.
- Cross-crediting to the Certificate programme shall be at the discretion of the Board of Studies, on the recommendation of the Faculty Meeting.
- Where a claim for cross-crediting for a course could not be proved, the Sia'atoutai Theological College could use a medium of examination as a way of settling doubt as to the credibility of the claim. The examination shall be carried out by the appropriate department and shall cover the important principles of that course. The result should be accepted as decisive on this mater.
E. Student's Right of Appeal
A Candidate shall have a right to appeal to the Board of Studies if the student claims that an injustice has been done on any matter related to the life at the College. However, that claim must be lodged with the Principal, Deputy Principal, Head Tutor and the Academic Dean who must try to settle the matter at hand, and it is upon their discernment that the matter be carried to the Board of Studies. However, the degree of seriousness of such complaint should determine that a Board of Studies meeting be convened.
F. Moral Standards of Behaviour and Punishment
All members of Sia'atoutai Theological College are required to adhere to standards of behaviour which are expressed in the Constitution of the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga of which are deemed appropriate to Christians living. Staff, students and other community members will be informed when their behaviour is deemed to be inappropriate.
- Persistent misbehavior will result in the termination of membership in the College. The Board of Studies has the power to remove any member of the College from the College community. The Principal has the power to suspend a student pending decision from the Board of Studies.
- Physical violence of any kind is not accepted.
- Corporal punishment is a form of physical violence and should not be practiced. Degrading treatment is regarded as a form of emotional violence, thus, it should not be tolerated. All members of Sia'atoutai Theological College are requested to resist the use of corporal punishment and other forms of violence in the running of their own homes.
- Using of foul language is not tolerated at the College
- Dishonesty of any kind undermines the integrity and the well being of the community and is therefore unacceptable.
- Defamation of any kind that could taint the good reputation of other members of the community is unacceptable.
- Academic dishonesty during examination will result in the disqualification of the course in which the dishonesty occurred.
- The use of other people's works as if they were your own is a grave academic sin. Failure to acknowledged use of materials from published sources and unpublished materials is known as "plagiarism", and it is to be avoided at all costs. Plagiarism is commonly occurred in written assignments where students copy sections of published and unpublished materials and fail to acknowledge them in footnotes form or other appropriate references. It is also classified as plagiarism to use others' ideas without acknowledgement. Doing translation of a published and unpublished material into Tongan without acknowledgement is also a form of plagiarism.
G. Academic Performance
- Students found practicing plagiarism in assessed work shall in the first instance be given guidance as to how to correct the fault and is required to resubmit the work. In case of subsequent plagiarism, the student is liable to suffer termination of his/her course but with the consent of the Dean of Studies. All serious academic dishonesty shall be reported to the Principal.
- Doing an assessed work on behalf of another student is a serious academic offence. If it happens then both students (the writer and the owner of that particular work), will be disqualified from that course in that particular year, regardless how much work they have done in that course.
- Double credit of one academic work is not allowed in the college. If someone is found to be practicing this, all his work on the related course (s) will be disqualified.
- All students are required to participate fully in all programmes of the College. Full attendance in classes is required, except where the permission of the lecturer has been given. Penalties for non-attendance in classes shall be at the discretion of the lecturer concerned on the recommendation of the faculty meeting. Penalties imposed for non-attendance shall be reported to the staff meeting on a regular basis. Poor attendance is a serious offence, and that may lead to the termination of the enrolment of the student.
- Excessive absent from classroom can either reduce a student's grade or deny credit for the course.
- All students are required to be under the academic supervision provided by the faculty. Assignment of duties is recommended by the College Registrar and approved by the Dean of Studies/ Deputy Principal.
- All students are required to attend all the regular events of the College, including Sunday worship, akolotu, choir practices, morning assemblies, roll calls, village meetings, College extra curricular activities, and special events as announced. Students must return to College on the Saturday evenings after holiday periods. All absentees from the College require the permission of the Head Tutor. Emergency absent, where prior permission has not been given, should be reported to the Head Tutor upon the return to the College.
- All make-up and incomplete courses before 2008 should be completed before the end of semester one in 2008. Fail to comply with this rule will result in those course considered fail.
- BD Students with more than eight (8) courses failed in a year will continue in the same courses in the following year. Same policy is applied to the Certificate students but with ten (10) courses.
- All students' written works must be pre-approved by the student's supervisor - Term Paper, Written Projects, and Theses, must be approved by the students' supervisor and respective department of study. Every writing project and thesis should have the final approval of the Head of Department concerned.
- All projects and thesis must be given final approval by the Principal and academic administration before going for assessment.
- Final year students who need to complete their study by fulfilling the requirements for their failed courses during their years of study are not allowed to remain in the college for residence. They can fulfill their work but from outside.
- A final decision on any academic matter is the prerogative of the Principal, on the recommendation of the Board of Studies and Sia'atoutai Committee.
H. Calculation of Grades
- All grades ought to be translated into marks during calculations of prizes.
- All grades are to be calculated in percentage base calculation.
- Working out of the overall GPA for each academic year should be calculated according to the overall percentage of each particular semester.
- In case of two students' results find a single point difference or equal, the calculation will consider the using of the percentage of the year's raw marks.
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