(i) to make proposals to the Syndicate for the establishment of University Colleges, University Departments, institutions, libraries, laboratories and museums for study and research to be maintained by the University;
(ii) to recommend to the Syndicate the creation and institution of Professorships, Readerships, Lectureships and other taching posts and the duties and emoluments thereof;
(iii) to make proposals to the Syndicate for the promotion of research and, through special committees, if any, constituted for the purpose, to call for reports on such research work from persons engaged therein, and to make recommendations to the Syndicate thereon;
Powers and duties of the Faculty Council for postgraduate studies.
313 The Calcutta University Act, 1979.
[West Ben. Act (Chapter Ill.—Authorities of the University.—Section 24.)
(iv) to prescribe after consulting the Syndicate the minimum qualifications for posts of Teachers of the University;
(v) to make proposals to the Syndicate regarding provisions to be made for enabling the University to undertake specialisation of studies and for organisation of common laboratories, libraries, museums, institutes of research and other institutions, maintained by the University;
(vi) to constitute or reconstitute the departments of teaching with the approval of the Syndicate;
(vii) to make provisions for lectures and instructions for students of constituent and University Colleges and University Laboratories and also for other persons who are not such students;
(viii) to advise the Syndicate on the institution of degrees, titles, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions;
(ix) to hold and conduct, subject to general supervision by the Syndicate, University examinations and publish the results thereof in accordance with the regulations made in this behalf;
(x) to provide for the inspection or the investigation into the affairs of any department or any University College and submit report to the Syndicate;
(xi) to have general supervision over the Boards of studies attached to the Faculty Council;
(xii) to frame rules relating to the courses of post-graduate studies and the division of subjects in regard thereto and to recommend to the Syndicate the making of Regulations in this behalf;
(xiii) to appoint, if required by the Syndicate, after considering the views of the Boards of studies attached to the Faculty Council, Boards of Examiners in the subject or subjects relating to post-graduate studies, including the subjects for doctoral thesis and for prizes and medals;
(xiv) to call for such reports or information as the Faculty Council may consider necessary for efficient discharge of its duties from the teaching departments, research units or Boards of studies;
(xv) to consider any educational matter relating to the Faculty Council and to arrive at decisions or make recommendations pertaining thereto to the appropriate authority or officer;
314 The Calcutta University Act, 1979.
XXXVIII of 1979.]
(Chapter 111.—Authorities of the University.—Section 25.)
(xvi) to maintain contact with the corresponding Council for udergraduate studies for the purpose of sharing ideas and ensuring co-ordination;
(xvii) to submit each year its annual report to the Syndicate;
(xviii) to make rules for the transaction of its own business;
(xix) to exercise all other powers and perform all other functions conferred and imposed on it by or under this Act;
(xx) to delegate to the teaching departments, research units, and Boards of studies attached to it the responsibility for such academic matters as respectively concern such departments, units and Boards;
(xx ) to consider and approve results of examinations leading to the post-graduate degrees, diplomas and certificates;
(xxii) to recommend to the Syndicate the conferment of postgraduate degrees, diplomas and certificates.