Ethics in the Educational System of Private Higher Education Institutions
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Ethics in the educational system serves as a crucial foundation that determines the direction and approaches for controlling, supervising, and enhancing the quality of education within institutions. This is particularly significant for private higher education institutions, given their essential role in producing graduates for society. The systemic approach mentioned in this study refers to the structured processes and mechanisms that promote, monitor, and assess ethical conduct among administrators, faculty members, staff, and students, ensuring that all sectors within the institution perform their duties with transparency, accountability, and integrity. Consequently, promoting and regulating ethics among academic and administrative personnel, as well as students, is essential to cultivating graduates endowed with moral values, ethical awareness, and social responsibility. The article “Ethics in the Educational System of Private Higher Education Institutions” focuses on examining and analyzing the roles of ethics within private higher education, considering the dimensions of administration, faculty, students, and institutional governance. It also proposes a systemic development approach aimed at strengthening transparency, credibility, and sustainability within higher education institutions.
The analysis reveals that maintaining ethics in private higher education institutions not only enhances academic quality but also reinforces social trust and increases the long-term institutional image of universities.
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