TSC 2024 Teacher Offenses.
TSC 2024 Teacher Offenses.THIRD SCHEDULE: DISCIPLINARY OFFENCES IN THE TEACHING SERVICE.
    Introduction:
Disciplinary offences within the teaching service encompass various actions and behaviors that undermine the integrity and professionalism of educators. These offences are categorized into distinct sections:
1. Immoral Conduct:
– Engaging in immoral behavior with a learner, such as sexual intercourse, sodomy, homosexuality, sexual harassment, flirtation, fostering love relationships, exposure to pornography, offering gifts to influence immoral conduct, or aiding immoral behavior.
2. Professional Misconduct:
– Demonstrating negligence of duty, chronic lateness or absenteeism, desertion, incitement, insubordination, or poor performance of duty.
3. Infamous Behavior:
– Engaging in acts such as drunkenness, fighting, use of vulgar language, or cyberbullying.
4. Improper Interactions:
– Sending or hosting learners in teachers’ residences, guest houses, hotels, or lodging without proper authorization.
5. Exploitative Practices:
– Engaging learners in household chores at teachers’ residences or facilitating such activities.
6. Fraudulent Actions:
– Submitting forged documents to influence decision-making processes, falsifying or altering official documents or data, mismanaging, misappropriating, or embezzling public funds, violating procurement regulations, or engaging in fraudulent activities contravening the law and regulations.
7. Violation of Guidelines:
– Breaching guidelines and directions issued by the Commission, undertaking or facilitating holiday tuition, charging unauthorized fees or levies, or withholding learners’ National Examinations certificates.
8. Unlawful Acts Related to Education:
– Administering corporal punishment, exposing learners to illicit drugs or psychotropic substances, failing to register candidates for national examinations, or commissioning and/or abetting acts leading to examination irregularities.
9. Misconduct and Theft:
– Falsifying school enrollment data, aiding unregistered individuals to gain employment as teachers, theft of institutional property, giving false information to the Commission, or engaging in gainful employment outside the scope of teaching.
10. Criminal Convictions:
– Being convicted of a criminal offence by a Court of law that renders an employee unfit for continued employment.
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11. Other Offences:
– Any other offence as stipulated in the regulations.
These disciplinary measures aim to uphold professional standards and ensure a conducive learning environment for all learners.
