Section 6: Functions of the Senate

(1) Subject to the last foregoing section and the provisions of this Act relating to the Visitor, it shall be the general function of the senate to organise and control the teaching at the University and the admission and discipline of students and to promote research at the University.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing subsection and subject as there mentioned, it shall in particular be the function of the Senate to make provision for-
(a) the establishment, organisation and control of faculties and other departments of the University, and the allocation to different departments of responsibility for different branches of learning;
(b) the appointment and promotion of teachers at the University;
(c) the organisation and control of courses of study at the University and of the examinations held in conjunction with those courses;
(d) the award of degrees. and such other qualifications as may be prescribed, in connection with examinations held as aforesaid;
(e) the making of recommendations to the Council with respect to the award to any person of any honorary fellowship or honorary degree or the title of professor emeritus;
(f) the selection of persons for admission as students at the University;
(g) the establishment, organisation and control of halls of residence and similar institutions at the University;
(h) the supervision of the welfare of students at the University and the regulation of their conduct;
(i) the grant of fellowship, scholarships, prizes and similar awards, in so far as the awards are within the control of the University; and
(j) determining what descriptions of dress shall be academic dress for the purposes of the University, and regulating the use of academic dress.
(3) The Senate may make regulations for the purpose of exercising any function conferred on it either by the foregoing provisions of this section or otherwise.
(4) Regulations shall provide that at least one of the persons appointed as the examiners at each examination held in conjunction with any course of study at the university is not a teacher at the University but is a teacher of the branch of learning to which the course relates at some other university of high repute.
(5) Any department established for the University and designated by regulations as a faculty of the University shall be organised in accordance with the provisions of the Third Schedule to this Act.
[Third Schedule.]