The reference ethical framework guiding teaching, research and relations within the university, MESRS, August 2023.
The University Ethics and Professional Conduct Charter is the reference text issued by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (August 2023) and adopted by the University of Saida – Dr Moulay Tahar as the ethical framework governing the community's work. It draws on UNESCO's World Declaration on Higher Education (9 October 1998), updates the 2010 national charter, and applies to teaching staff and researchers, administrative and technical personnel, service agents, and students, in both public and private sectors.
University Ethics and Professional Conduct Charter, MESRS, August 2023.
Teaching and research activities at university are inconceivable without academic freedom. It is exercised in respect of others and of professional conscience, and guarantees the expression of critical views without censorship or coercion (articles 74 and 75 of the 2020 Constitution).
The exercise of academic freedoms requires full respect for the campus, which the State pledges to safeguard. Members of the university community must refrain from any partisan political activity within university spaces.
Research and the questioning of the knowledge produced and transmitted by the university rest on fundamental principles: the pursuit of scientific truth and critical thinking. This requires competence, critical observation of facts, experimentation, citation of references, intellectual rigour, creativity and innovation.
Responsibility and competence are complementary notions, reinforced by institutional governance grounded in democracy and ethics. Pedagogical and scientific competences are kept distinct from administrative responsibility, which is always exercised in the service of teaching and research.
The pursuit of honesty and integrity stemming from competence requires members of the university community to reject corruption in all its forms, plagiarism and any situation of conflict of interest. Integrity is also reflected in the judicious use of the human, material and financial resources available.
Respect for others rests on self-respect. Members of the university community must refrain from any form of symbolic, material or verbal violence, harassment (moral or sexual), discrimination or prejudice. Diversity calls for consideration, open-mindedness and tolerance.
The accelerating pace of digitalisation requires the university community to rise to the ethical demands of the digital era: data-access management, security of systems and infrastructures, respect for privacy and protection of personal data, protection of property rights, combating algorithmic bias, electronic signature, and contribution to an ethical governance of artificial intelligence.
