Bulletin Supplement Feb 1968

(g) to recommend the conferment of degrees (other than degrees honoris causa) and to award diplomas, certificates and other distinctions; (h) to fix, subject to any conditions made by the donors and accepted by the Council, the times, the mode and the conditions of competition for University scholarships, bursaries and prizes, and to award the same; (i) to recommend to the Council the institution, abolition or holding in abeyance of any professorship, readership or senior lectureship and the assignment of any such post to a College; ( j) to recommend to the Council external expert s to serve as members of Boards of Advisers; ( k) to elect members of the Senate to be members of the Council as provided in paragrap h of section 11 of the Ordinance; (l) to report to the Council on all Statutes and decrees and proposed changes thereof; (m) to report to the Council on any academic matter; (n) to discuss any matter relating to the University and t o report its views to the Council; (o) to report to the Council on any matters referre d to the Senate by the Council; (p) to consider estimates of expenditure prepared in respect of the central activities of the University, and to report thereon to the Council; (q) to formulate, modify or revise schemes for the organization of Faculties and to assign to such Faculties their respective subjects; also to report to the Council on the expediency of establishing at any time other Faculties or as to the expediency of abolishing, combining or subdividing any Faculties; (r) to establish, modify or abolish any Board of Studies and to determine its functions; (s) to supervise the central library and laboratories; ( 0 to require any undergraduate or student on academic grounds to terminate his studies at the University; (u) to determine — (i) the academic year which shall be a period not exceeding twelve consecutive months, and (li) the academic terms which shall be part of an academic year; ( v) to exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as the Council may authorize or require. 4. The Senate shall hold at least three meetings in each academic year and additionally at any time at the direction of the Chairman or on the written request of any five members of the Senate. 5. Seven days' notice in writing of any meeting of the Senate shall be sent by the Registrar to each person entitled to receive notice of the meeting with the agenda therefor and no business not on such agenda shall be transacte d if the Chairman or any two members present object. 6. The Senate may make for the proper conduct of its business Standing Orders which it may amend or rescind by simple majority at any of its meetings provided that not less than seven days' notic e has been given i n writing by the Registrar to members of the Senate of the proposal so to amend or rescind. 7. The quorum at any meeting of the Senate shall be ten. S T A T U T E 13 T HE CONVOCATION 1. The Convocation of the University shall consist of all persons whose names appear on the Convocation roll . 2. All persons who become graduates of the University shall be entitled to have their names entered on the Convocation roll: Provided that persons on whom, a degree honoris causa has been conferred shall not solely by reason thereof be members of Convocation, but may be elected by Convocation to be members thereof. 3. Any person who obtains a diploma issued by the Post-Secondary Colleges Joint Diploma Board in the academic year of establishment of the University shall be entitled to have his name entered on the Convocation roll. 4. The Convocation shall from its own members elect a Chairman and may elect a Vice-Chairman who shall respectively hold office for such periods as the Convocation may determine. No member shall be eligible for election as Chairma n or Vice-Chairman unless he is normally resident in Hong Kong. Any retiring Chairman or Vice-Chairman shall be eligible for re-election. 13