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Higher Education Act, 1997 (Act No. 101 of 1997)

Notices

Standard Institutional Statute, 2018

Chapter 6 : Senate

34. Faculties

 

(1) At the University there shall be such faculties, schools and departments (whether subdivisions of faculties or not) as the Council, after consultation with the Senate, may from time to time establish.

 

(2) The faculty board of each faculty is a committee of the Senate.

 

(3) The following matters concerning the faculty boards are defined in the Institutional Rules—
(a) the constitution of such boards: Provided that only academic employees of the University may serve on faculty boards;
(b) their powers and functions;
(c) their procedures;
(d) the selection of candidates for the position of Dean, Deputy Dean or persons of similar status;
(e) the appointment of committees of the faculty as well as the manner in which their functions are determined; and
(f) their authority to delegate.

 

(4) The Dean of the faculty concerned is ex officio the Chairperson of the faculty board meeting.

 

(5) In the absence of the Dean, the acting Dean or the Deputy Dean shall act as the Chairperson: Provided that if the Dean and the Deputy Dean or the acting Dean are absent, the members present at the faculty board meeting shall elect a Chairperson for the particular meeting from their own ranks.

 

(6) Each faculty may have an advisory committee operating in terms of the Institutional Rules.