(a) to report on any matter referred or delegated to it by the General Council or the Executive Council;
(b) to make recommendations to the Executive Council with regard to the creation, abolition or classification of teaching posts in the University and the emoluments and the duties attached thereto;
(c) to formulate and modify or revise schemes for the organisation of the faculties, and to assign to such faculties their respective subjects and also to report to the Executive Council as to the expediency of the abolition or sub-division of any faculty or the combination of one faculty with another;
(d) to make arrangements through regulations for the instruction and examination of persons other than those enrolled in the University;
(e) to promote research within the University and to require, from time to time, reports on such research;
(f) to consider proposals submitted by the faculties;
(g) to appoint committees for admission to the University;
(h) to recognise diplomas and degrees of other universities and institutions and to determine their equivalence in relation to the degrees of the University;
(i) to fix, subject to any condition accepted by the General Council, the time, mode and conditions of competition for fellowships, scholarships and other prizes, and to award the same;
Academic Council.
Powers and functions of Academic Council.
Meetings of Academic Council.
Finance Committee.
(j) to make recommendations to the Executive Council in regard to the appointment of examiners and if necessary their removal and the fixation of their fees, emoluments and travelling and other expenses;
(k) to make arrangements for the conduct of examinations and to fix dates for holding them;
(l) to declare the results of the various examinations, or to appoint committees or officers to do so, and to make recommendations regarding the conferment or grant of degrees, honours, licences, titles and marks of honours;
(m) to award stipends, scholarships, medals and prizes and to make other awards in accordance with the regulations and such other conditions as may be attached to the awards;
(n) to publish lists of prescribed or recommended text-books and to publish syllabus of the prescribed courses of study;
(o) to prepare such forms and registers as are, from time to time, prescribed by regulations; and
(p) to perform, in relation to academic matters, all such duties and to do all such acts as may be necessary for the proper carrying out of the provisions of this Act and the regulations.
30. (1) The Academic Council shall meet at least twice in every year on dates to be fixed by the Vice-Chancellor. One of such meetings shall be called the annual meeting. The Academic Council may also meet at such other times as it may, from time to time, determine.
(2) One third of the total strength of the members of the Academic Council shall be the quorum required for a meeting of the Academic Council:
Provided that such quorum shall not be required at a convocation of the University or a meeting of the Academic Council held for the purpose of conferring degrees, titles or other academic distinctions.
(3) The Vice-Chancellor may, whenever he thinks fit or and shall upon a requisition in writing signed by not less than fifty per cent of the total members of the Academic Council, convene a special meeting of the Academic Council.