(i) to report on any matter referred to it by the Court or the Executive Council;

(ii) to make proposals to the Executive Council for the establishment of Departments, Colleges, institutions of higher learning, Special Centres, Specialized Laboratories, Libraries and Museums;

(iii) to formulate, modify or revise schemes for the organisation of, and assignment of subjects to Schools of Studies;

(iv) to consider proposals submitted by the Schools of Studies;

(v) to promote research within the University and to require, from time to time, reports on such research;

(vi) to make recommendations to the Executive Council with regard to the creation and abolition of teaching posts in the University and the classification of the said posts and the emoluments and duties attaching thereto;

(vii) to recognise diplomas and degrees of other University and institutions and to determine their equivalent diplomas and degree of the Jawaharlal Nehru University;

(viii) to appoint Committees for admission to the University;

(ix) to publish lists of prescribed or recommended text-books and to publish the syllabuses of prescribed courses of study;

(x) to make such arrangements for the instructions and examination of persons, not being members of the University, as may be necessary;

(xi) to recommend to the Executive Council draft Ordinances regarding examinations of the University and the conditions on which students should be admitted to such examinations;

(xii) to make recommendations to the Executive Council in regard to the appointment of examiners and, if necessary, their removal and the fixation of their fees, emoluments and travelling and other expenses;

(xiii) to make arrangements for the conduct of examinations and to fix dates for holding them;

(xiv) to declare the results of the various University examinations, or to appoint committees or officers to do so;

(xv) to make recommendations for the conferment of honorary degrees and to confer or grant degrees, academic distinctions, honours, diplomas, licences, titles and marks of honours;

(xvi) to make proposals to the Executive Council for the institution of fellowships, scholarships, studentships, medals and prizes and to award the same;

(xvii) to perform, in relation to academic matters, al such duties to do al such act as may be necessary for the proper carrying out of the provisions of the Act, these Statutes and the Ordinances;

(xviii) to promote the health and welfare of students and to constitute a Council of Students' Affairs consisting of such number of teachers and students as may be prescribed by the Ordinances to advise the Academic Council on matters relating to the welfare of the students of the University.