Academic Board - Terms of Reference

i) considering and advising the Principal on the planning, co-ordination, development, oversight and resourcing of all the academic work of the University;

ii) the regulation and control of all the teaching and schemes of study in the University;

iii) the regulation of academic conditions for the admission of students to the University;

iv) the regulation and superintendence of the discipline of the students in academic matters, including assessment and examination of their academic performance, and procedures for their expulsion on academic grounds;

v) the quality of courses including matters relating to validation or accreditation by external bodies;

vi) awarding academic qualifications and making recommendations for the granting of honorary awards, fellowships, scholarships, bursaries, prizes or other distinctions and qualifications;

vii) the general oversight of research;

viii) advice on the machinery for the appointment and promotion of members of the teaching and research staff;

ix) the nomination, appointment and removal of external examiners;

x) the nomination of academic representatives of the University on outside bodies;

xi) the making to the Principal and, through the Principal to the Board of Governors, of such reports and recommendations as the Academic Board thinks fit on the academic structure of the University and other academic and related matters or on any matters referred to the Academic Board by the Board of Governors;

xii) the appointment to the Board of Governors of members of the Academic Board;

xiii) the exercise of any other functions which may be delegated to the Academic Board by the Board of Governors.

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