The following shall be the powers and functions of the Academic Council, namely:-
(a) to exercise general control on teaching and other educational programmes and maintain and promote the standards thereof;
(b) to make, amend or repeal regulations;
(c) to propose draft to the Board for making, amending or repealing Ordinances;
(d) to advise the Board on all academic matters including the control and management of libraries;
(e) to make recommendation to the Board for the institution of Professorship, Associate Professorship, Assistant Professorship and other teaching, research and extension education posts and in regard to the duties thereof;
(f) to formulate, modify or revise schemes for the constitution or reconstitution of 13 departments of teaching, research and extension education;
(g) to make recommendation to the Board regarding post-graduate teaching, research and extension education;
(h) to make recommendation to the Board regarding the qualifications to be prescribed for teaching, research and extension education posts in the University;
(i) to make recommendation to the Board for the conferment of honorary degrees or other distinctions; and
(j) to exercise such other powers and perform such other functions as may be prescribed by the Statutes.