- Laws of Fiji

Last Updated: 14 February 2022

[FNU 6] Functions and powers of the University6

(1) The University’s functions are—

(a)to provide for, and encourage the creation, advancement and dissemination of knowledge, through scholarship, research and teaching to the standards acceptable by the Council;
(b)to provide courses of study or instruction, at the levels of achievement the Council considers appropriate, to meet the needs of the community, including technical and vocational education and training;
(c)to confer higher education awards and awards at other levels as determined by the Council;
(d)to provide, arrange for or regulate the appropriate training of persons or classes of persons, whether by way of apprenticeship or otherwise, to assist such persons or classes of persons in connection with employment;
(e)to assist and contribute towards the cost of training, and the promotion of training, of any person or class of persons;
(f)to participate in community discourse through the application of knowledge generated and advanced at the University to society, industry and government in an environment where the rights of all are respected;
(g)to perform other functions given to the University under this Act or under another Act, or as determined by the Council;

[subs (1) am Decree 58 of 2010 s 6, effective 29 November 2010]

(2) The University shall have the powers—

(a)to provide facilities, resources and institutional governance structures that ensure the integrity of the University’s academic programmes and promote the well-being of the University’s staff, students and other persons undertaking study and research at the University;
(b)to prescribe the conditions under which students and persons or categories of persons shall be admitted to the University for the purpose of pursuing any programme or course of study therein and to ensure that provision is made for the maintenance of the discipline of the students of the University;
(c)to appoint persons to and to remove them from such offices instituted, to prescribe the conditions of service of staff and to provide for their discipline;
(d)to institute professorships and other offices of any kind as the University may consider appropriate;
(e)to make provision for consultancy, research, design, development, testing and advisory services and for the dissemination of the same in such manner at the University may determine including entering into arrangements with other institutions, bodies or companies as the University may consider desirable;
(f)to affiliate, associate or cooperate with other institutions or bodies with regard to matters pertaining to the well-being of the University and other institutions as may be appropriate in particular situations;
(g)to enter into any agreement for the incorporation in the University of any other institution or body and for taking over the rights, properties and liabilities thereof;
(h)to enter into any agreement for the academic association with the University of any other institution or body;
(i)to establish awards such as fellowships, scholarships, prizes and other aids for study and research;
(j)to examine and accept where appropriate qualifications gained, examinations passed or periods of study spent at other universities and institutions as equivalent to such examinations and periods of study in the University as the University may determine;
(k)to grant and confer Degrees, Diplomas, Certificates and other distinctions or awards of study approved by the University to those who have qualified for such grants in accordance with the requirements of the University and to confer distinctions including Honorary Degrees on approved persons, according to procedures established by the University;
(l)to revoke or deprive any persons of Degrees, Diplomas, Certificates or other distinctions or awards granted or conferred by the University on foundations that the University shall consider to be good cause;
(m)to do all such other acts and things whether incidental to the powers aforesaid or not as the University may consider being necessary or expedient in order to further its objects.