Section 8: Functions of the Senate

(1) Subject to section 5 of this Act and subsections (3) and (4) and to the provisions of this Act relating to the Visitor, it shall be the general function of the Senate to organise and control teaching in the University, admission to post-graduate courses and other admission of students, the discipline of students and to promote research in the University.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of subsection (I), it shall in particular be the function of the Senate to make provision for the —
(a) establishment, organisation and control of campuses, colleges, faculties, departments, schools, institutes and other teaching and research units of the University, and the allocation of responsibility for different branches of learning;
(b) organisation and control of courses of study in the University and of the examinations held in conjunction with those courses, including the appointment of examiners, both internal and external;
(c) award of degrees, and such other qualifications as may be prescribed, in connection with examinations conducted by the University;
(d) making of recommendations to the Council with respect to the award to any person of an honorary fellowship or honorary degree or the title of professor emeritus;
(e) establishment, organisation and control of halls of residence and similar institutions in the University;
(f) supervision of the welfare of students in the University and the regulation of their conduct;
(g) granting of fellowships, scholarships, prizes and similar awards in so far as the awards are within the control of the University; and
(h) determination of what description of dress shall be academic dress for the purposes of the University, and regulating the use of academic dress.
(3)
The Senate shall not establish any new campus, college, faculty, department, school, institute or other teaching and research units of the University, or any hall of residence or similar institution at the University without the approval of the Council.
(4) Subject to this Act and the Statutes, the Senate may make regulations for the purpose of exercising any function conferred on it either by the provisions of this section or for the purpose of providing for any matter for which provision by regulation is authorised or required by this Act or by Statute.
(5) The Senate shall, by regulation, provide that at least one of the persons appointed as examiners at each final or professional examination held in conjunction with any course of study in the University is not a teacher at the University but is a teacher at the branch of learning to which the course relates in some other institution of high repute.
(6)
Subject to a right of appeal to the Council from a decision of the Senate under this subsection, the Senate may deprive any person of any degree, diploma or other award of the University which has been conferred on him if after due enquiry he is shown to have been guilty of any dishonorable or scandalous conduct in gaining admission into the University or obtaining that award.