Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

[Index] [Table] [Database Search] [Name Search] [Previous] [Next] [Help]

Higher Education Act (No. 20 of 1966) - Sect 48

Powers and duties of the Senate of a University

48.
(1) The Senate shall be the academic Authority of a University, and shall have control and general direction of the standards of education and examinations within the University, subject to the provisions of this Act and of any appropriate Instrument.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any appropriate Instrument, the Senate of a University shall have, and may exercise and perform, the following powers and duties: -
(a) to draft, after consideration of reports from the Faculties, Ordinances relating to courses of study, and to submit such drafts to the Board of Regents for implementation;
(b) to recommend to the Board of Regents the names of persons suitable for appointment as examiners, after consideration of reports from the Faculty or Faculties concerned in such appointments;
(c) to recommend to the Board of Regents the institution, abolition, or suspension of Professorships, Readerships, Lectureships, and other teaching posts in the University;
(d) to report to the Board of Regents on all Ordinances relating to courses of study in the University;
(e) to recommend to the Board of Regents schemes-
(i) for the organization of new Faculties, and
(ii) for the abolition, modification, or revision of the organization of existing Faculties;
(f) to assign to Faculties their respective subjects of study;
(g) to consider, and to report to the Board of Regents on, any matters relating to or connected with teaching, courses and syllabuses of study, books, examinations and research, which concern the University as a whole;
(h) to recommend to the Board of Regents the mode and conditions of competition for Fellowships, Scholarships, Exhibitions, Bursaries, Medals and other Prizes;
(i) to award Fellowships, Scholarships, Exhibitions, Bursaries, Medals and other Prizes, on such conditions as may be approved by the Board of Regents;
(j) to appoint such number of Standing Committees, or other ad hoc Committees or Boards of the Senate as it may deem fit, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provisions of this paragraph,-
(i) a Library Committee,
(ii) an Admissions Committee,
(iii) a Research Committee, and
(iv) an Examinations Committee,
(k) to submit, after due consideration, recommendations to the Board of Regents on any matter whatsoever relating to, or connected with, the University.


[Index] [Table] [Database Search] [Name Search] [Previous] [Next] [Help]