Abstract:
Discipline is important in the administration of university personnel in carrying out their duties toward the primary objectives of the universities, i.e. 1) to educate; 2) to teach; 3) to promote academic activities and the professions; 4) to research; 5) to give academic service to the society; and 6) to preserve the nations art and culture. Their duties toward these objectives are to be carried out with order and efficiency. In the past, the universities had a position in the bureaucracy at the level of a department in one of the various ministries. The university personnel were under the same system of personnel administration and discipline as other civil servants. In 1964 the government acknowledged that the nature of work of university personnel, especially of university teachers and researchers, is different from the nature of work of other civil servants. For this reason it was decided that a separate system of personnel administration would be suitable for university personnel. This was promulgated in the University Civil Service commissions regulation B.E. 2507. There were five basic articles in this act, but in it, the Ministry is empowered to decide on the details. Throughout more than 20 years which these regulations have been in force, there have been many orders from the Ministry supplementing the original act. However, the majority of these orders from the Ministry have referred back to the principles and processes of the original Civil Service commission, especially and particularly the section on discipline. This part especially has been taken whole, without improvement or alteration, and has been applied to university civil servants. Because of this, there have been problems of enforcement and practice of these laws. The thought, philosophy, and system within universities differ from the ordinary civil service, along with some differing regulations. This thesis attempts to study and analyze the problems concerning discipline in order to understand the principles of law and the problems involved. Such a study can lead to improvements in the 1964 regulations on discipline of university civil servants.