Violations & Disciplinary Rules

Any violation of university laws, regulations and traditions, in particular, shall be considered a disciplinary violation:

1. Acts that violate the system of the Institute or establishments.
2. Disrupting or instigating the study or deliberately refraining from attending lectures and lectures.
3. Any act contrary to honor or dignity or violates good conduct.
4. Any violation of the necessary examination system and any cheating in or attempt to take an exam.
5. Any destruction or management of facilities, equipment, university materials or books.
6. Any organization of associations within the Institute or participation in them without a previous license from the competent authority.
7. Distributing flyers, issuing wall newspapers, or collecting signatures without prior authorization.
8. Sit-ins inside buildings or participation in demonstrations that violate public order or morals.
9. Every student who commits cheating in an exam or attempts to do so and is caught in flagrante delicto is taken out by the Dean or his representative from the examination committee and is deprived of entering the exam in the rest of the subjects and the student is considered a failure in all subjects of this exam and is referred to the disciplinary board.

Disciplinary Sanctions

• • warning orally or in writing.
  • Deprivation from attending a course lesson for a period not exceeding one month.
  • Dismissal from the institute for a period not exceeding one month.
  • Denial of examination in one or more courses.
  • Canceling an exam in one or more courses.
  • Dismissal from the institute for a period not exceeding one semester.
  • Denial of the exam in one or more semesters.
  • Dismissal from the institute for more than one semester.
  • Final dismissal from the institute and the decision of dismissal shall be communicated to other institutes.

1. The Board of Directors of the Institute may, after the approval of the Ministry, reconsider the decision issued for the final dismissal after the lapse of at least three years from the date of issuance of the decision.
2. One of the penalties mentioned in the fifth item and subsequent of Article (126) shall not be imposed except after investigating the student in writing and hearing his statements in what is attributed to him. A faculty member assigned to investigate a student may not be a member of the disciplinary board.
3. The decisions issued by the competent bodies imposing disciplinary sanctions in accordance with Article (127) shall be final.
4. However, the decision issued in absentia by the Disciplinary Board may be opposed within a week from the date of its notification to the student or his guardian, and the decision shall be considered in attendance if the request to attend has been announced to the person of the student or his guardian and the student fails to attend without an acceptable excuse.
5. The decision issued by the Student Disciplinary Board may not be appealed except by appeal, and the appeal shall be filed by a written request submitted by the student to the Chairman of the Board of Directors within fifteen days from the date of being informed of the decision, and he shall notify this request to the Supreme Disciplinary Board within fifteen days.

The bodies competent to impose penalties are:

1. Professors and assistant professors: They may impose the first four penalties for what occurs to students during lessons, lectures and various university activities.
2. Dean of the Institute: He has the right to impose the first eight penalties. In the event of a disorder or breach of order caused or feared by the irregularity of the study or examination, the Dean of the Institute shall impose all penalties, provided that the matter shall be presented within two weeks from the date of imposition of the penalty to the Disciplinary Board if the penalties are final dismissal from the Institute, and to the Board of Directors for other penalties in order to consider upholding the penalty, canceling or amending it.
3. Board of Directors: It has the right to impose all penalties except the last penalty, after taking the opinion of the Dean of the Institute, and he may prevent the student referred to the Disciplinary Board from entering the Institute until the day specified for his trial.
4. Disciplinary Board: It has the right to impose all penalties.
5. The decision to refer students to the Disciplinary Board shall be issued by the Board of Directors on its own initiative or at the request of the Dean.
6. The Student Disciplinary Board shall be formed as follows:
   • Dean of the Institute.
   • Vice Dean of the Institute (if any)
   • The oldest member of the Board of the Institute.
7. The Supreme Disciplinary Board shall be formed from:
   • Vice President for Education and Student Affairs – Chairman.
   • Dean of the Faculty of Law or one of its professors.
   • Professor from the Institute.
8. A decision shall be issued by the Board of Directors to select the member professors.