The Central Institutions (Scotland) Regulations 1988

PART III ACADEMIC COUNCILS

Academic Councils

18.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the governing body of each central institution shall appoint, and maintain by further appointment, an academic council in the manner specified in Part I of Schedule 1.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the governing bodies of Glasgow College of Technology and Napier Polytechnic of Edinburgh but these governing bodies shall each appoint and maintain by further appointment an academic board constituted and appointed in accordance with the practice observed respectively at each of those institutions immediately prior to the coming into force of these Regulations, and any provisions of these Regulations applying to academic councils, apart from paragraph (1) of this regulation, Part I of Schedule 1 and paragraph 5(b) of Part II of that Schedule, shall apply equally to such an academic board.

(3) The proceedings of the academic council shall be regulated in accordance with Part II of Schedule 1.

(4) The governing body of each central institution shall delegate to the academic council of the institution the following of its functions—

(a) the functions of the governing body relating to the over-all planning, co-ordination, development and supervision of the academic work of the institution; and

(b) such other functions of the governing body as may be assigned to the academic council by the governing body:

Provided that the functions specified in head (a) of this paragraph shall be discharged by the academic council subject to the general control and direction of the governing body.

(5) In discharging the functions specified in paragraph (4) of this regulation, the academic council shall have all the powers and duties of the governing body in relation to those functions and shall have the power to make any recommendation to the governing body on such matters relating to those functions as the academic council may think fit.

(6) The governing body of each central institution shall make arrangements to secure that the academic council of the institution shall discharge the functions imposed on them by or under paragraph (4) of this regulation.