COVID-19 POLICY COMPLIANCE AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN EDUCATION BUSINESS AT ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY, UGANDA

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic is a reality. With it came the lockdown as first
measure to ensure social distancing. This raised question as to whether
Universities and other tertiary institutions could be run as normal
business. St Lawrence University set out to establish a COVID-19 Task
Force and to develop a COVID-19 guiding policy to which it must
adhere to sail through the pandemic and also survive the new normal
business situation. However, the need to ensure continuous monitoring
of compliance was found important and an assessment checklist was
developed. Compliance to the policy alone would be missing a step if
likely business ethics issues were not considered. So, this paper presents
policy concerns and guidelines as well as means for assessment of
education business compliance. The ethical consideration of parameters
and indicators developed is presented.