Powers and duties of Academic Council

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1. (1) The Academic Council shall have the following powers and duties, namely:—
   • (a) to ensure that the University becomes a vibrant hub for promotion of research and development, interactions and linkages with industries, cultivation of intellectual property rights and entrepreneurship and incubation of knowledge linked industries;
   • (b) to consider and approve with modifications, if any, the matters referred to it by the School Council;
   • (c) to ensure that there are choice based credit systems for all certificates, diplomas, degrees, post-graduate programmes and other academic distinctions;
   • (d) to ensure that the spirit of research and entrepreneurship percolates to all schools and departments of the University;
   • (e) to recommend to the Board of Governance the fees, other fees and charges as recommended by the Dean of School through the Fee Fixation Committee;
   • (f) to recommend to the Board of Governance the institution of degrees, deplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions;
   • (g) to propose draft of Ordinances relating to the academic matter to the Board of Governance;
   • (h) to make, amend or repeal Ordinances and Regulations relating to academic matters;
     • (i) to allocate subjects to the faculties;
   • (j) to prescribe qualifications and norms for appointment of paper-setters, examiners, moderators and others, concerned with the conduct of examinations and evaluation;
   • (k) to consider and make recommendations to the Board of Governance for creation of posts of University teachers and non-vacation academic staff, required by the University from the funds of the University and from the funds received from other funding agencies (excluding the State Government) and prescribe their qualifications, experience and pay-scales;
   • (l) to appoint a Research and Recognition Committee for each School;
   • (m) to recommend to the Board of Governance the comprehensive perspective plan as prepared by the Academic Council;
   • (n) to approve new courses, inter-disciplinary courses and short-term training programmes referred to it;
   • (o) to approve the course syllabi, paper-setters, examiners and moderators paper-setters, and evaluation schemes of various courses recommended by the school concerned;
   • (p) to approve major and (multiple) minor degree programmes;
   • (q) to advise the University on all academic matters and submit to the Board of Governance feasibility reports on academic programmes;
   • (r) to create policy, procedure and practice for choice based credit system for all academic programmes; to create policy for mobility of students among various universities of the country and also lay down the policy for giving flexibility to choose and learn different course modules among different departments, school and centers in a University or other universities in the country;
   • (t) to work out the procedures, policies and practices to introduce more flexible approach to education and of 'adaptive pace of learning' with minimum and maximum duration for completion of a degree and other academic programmes;
   • (u) to introduce more flexible approach to education and of 'adaptive pace of learning' with minimum and maximum duration for completion of a degree and other academic programmes;
     • (v) to ensure that the research projects are an integral part of choice based modules for post-graduate programmes;
   • (w) to prepare academic calendar of the University for the subsequent academic year as per the guidelines from the regulatory authorities, three months before the expiry of the current academic year;
     • (x) to recommend to the Board of Governance establishment of departments, schools, centers, research and specialized studies;
   • (y) to exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as may be conferred or imposed on it by or under this Act, the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations.
2. (2) The Academic Council shall refer all matters or decisions involving financial implications to the Board of Governance through the Finance and Accounts Committee for its approval.