Professional ethics

How the use of this knowledge should be governed when providing a service to the public can be considered a moral issue and is termed "professional ethics".

[4] Typically these include honesty, trustworthiness, transparency, accountability, confidentiality, objectivity, respect, obedience to the law, and loyalty.

This allows those professionals who act with a conscience to practice in the knowledge that they will not be undermined commercially by those who have fewer ethical qualms.

For example, until recently, the English courts deferred to the professional consensus on matters relating to their practice that lay outside case law and legislation.

An untrained person would only be considered to be negligent for failing to act if they did nothing at all to help and is protected by the "Good Samaritan" laws if they unintentionally caused more damage and possible loss of life.

On a theoretical level, there is debate as to whether an ethical code for a profession should be consistent with the requirements of morality governing the public.

[11] Setting up a business-like atmosphere helps students get adjusted from a more relaxed nature, like high school, towards what will be expected of them in the business world upon graduating from college.

[12] While some of these rules are based solely on academics others are more in depth than in previous years, such as, detailing the level of respect expected towards staff and gambling.

Schools also implement a code of conduct for international study abroad programs which carry over many of the same rules found in most student handbooks.