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310 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
academic power is the Faculty. But if these separate powers are exercised independently and without any co-ordination, the result is bound to be injurious to the best interest of the University. A Faculty is here taken as the basis of University organization and is given complete autonomy in prescribing courses of study and arranging the teaching of and the examining work. But provision must be made for the control of all matters not expressly assigned to the Faculties, the settlement of matters affecting more than one Faculty, and for a final decision when differences arise between one Faculty and another. There is not only a need for a body for co-ordinating the Faculties but there is also a need for a body for co-ordinating the Faculties and the Syndicate, otherwise the Syndicate by the exercise of its executive powers may seriously interfere in the academic freedom of the Faculties. The control of the purse must ultimately mean the control of all else and it is therefore necessary to ensure that the Syndicate shall not take any action having a direct educational bearing on the University as a whole without consultation with a body representative of the teaching staff as a whole. Thus whether as a feature of the transition period or as a permanent feature of University organization there is a clear necessity for the establishment of a fourth body in the act of incorporation. That body I propose to call the Academic Council. Its functions will be partly advisory and partly executive.
Its executive functions would include the determination by regulation or otherwise of all matters relating to—
(1) The quorum to be required at meetings of the Faculties or at meetings of any Committees appointed by the Faculties.
(2) The duties and powers of Advisory and other Boards, including Boards and Committees to be appointed by the University jointly with any other University or Body touching any educational matter.
(3) The qualifications for honorary degrees and distinctions to be awarded by the University and the means and steps to be taken relative to the granting of the same.
(4) The visitation of affiliated colleges.
(5) The affiliation and disaffiliation of colleges.
(6) The tenure of fellowships, scholarships, exhibitions and pecuniary and other aids.
(7) The discipline to be enforced in regard to the graduates and undergraduates in so far as they come within the jurisdiction of the University.
(8) The removal from membership of the University of graduates and under-graduates and the withdrawal of degrees, diplomas, certificates and distinctions, subject to an appeal to the Senate. The advisory functions of the Academic Council shall be as follows :
( i ) The Syndicate shall not make any decision in regard to any matter relating to the organisation, improvement, and extension of University