Calendar 2002–03

CUHKOrdinance 385 from the date of th eir election and shall be eligible for re-election provided that they sh all cease to be members of the Senate if they cease to be assigned to the College by wh ose Assembly of Fellows they were elected. Should an elected member die or resign from the Senate or cease to be a Fellow within the College by whose members he was elected a successor shall be duly elected who shall be a member o f th e Senate f o r th e un ex pired p er io d of memb er sh ip o f his pr edecesso r. ( b ) Student members under paragraph 1( l ) or ( m ) shallbe elected in such manner as may be determined by the Senate. ( c ) Student memberselected under paragraph 1( l ) or ( m ) shall hold office for a period of one year and shall be eligible for re-election provided that no stu dent shall b e a member of the Sen ate for more than 2 consecutive terms of office. If a student member resigns or ceases to be a member of the Senate and his unexpired period of membership is 6 months or longer, then a successor shall be elected in accordance with subparagraph ( b ) for that unexpired period of membership, but if his unexpired period of membership is shorter than 6 months, then no successor shall be elected for that unexpired period of membership. ( d ) A student member shall cease to be a member of theSenate if he ceases to be a registered student of the University or if he is suspended from pursuing full-time study at the University. 4. Subject to the Ordinance and Statutes, the Senate shall have the following powers and duties — ( a ) to promote research by members of the University; ( b ) to regulate the admission of persons to approved courses of study and their attendance at such courses; and to assign students to Colleges with due regard to the preferences of both the students and theColleges; ( c ) to direct and regulate the instruction and teaching in approved courses of study and to conduct theexaminations leading to degrees, diplomas, certificates and other awards of the University; ( d ) to consider,upon theadvice of the Assembly of Fellowsof eachCollege, measures necessary for the conduct of student-orientated teaching, and to consider also measures necessary for theconduct of subject-orientated teaching; ( e ) to make, after report from the Faculties concerned, all regulations for giving effect to the Statutes and decrees relating to approved courses of study and examinations; ( f ) to appoint in ternal examiner s after r eport from the Board s of the Departmentsconcerned; ( g ) to recommend af ter rep ort fr om the Boards of the Departmen ts concerned external examiners for appointment by the Council; ( h ) to recommend the conferment of degrees (other than degrees honoris causa ) and to award diplomas, certificates and other distinctions; ( i ) 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;