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State of Gujarat - Section

Section 6 in Indian Institute of Teacher Education, Gujarat Act, 2010

6. Powers and functions of University.

- The powers and functions of the University shall be as follows
(1)to administer and manage the University and ensure efficient working of the centres, colleges and institutions related to research, education, training and extension services for the furtherance of the objects of the University;
(2)to regulate conduct and enforce discipline among the employees of the University and to take such measures as may be deemed necessary;
(3)to prepare guidelines manuals and methodology for assessing performance of students, teachers and others related to the University, and to determine paradigms for quality assurance, processes and mechanisms in harmony with those developed by the National Commission for Teacher Education;
(4)to establish, conduct and promote centres, such as -
(i)Centre of Research
(ii)Centre of Education
(iii)Centre of Training
(iv)Centre of Extension Services, and
(v)such other centres and institutions as may be necessary and to provide for facilities, including those relating to pedagogy for scientific discoveries and inventions, pedagogy for fine arts, pedagogy for crafts, promotion of NSS and NCC, promotion of scouts and guides, multi-linguistic capacities (Gujarati, Sanskrit, French, English, Hindi, Tamil, Arabic, Spanish, etc.) development of curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular hobbies, puppetry, exhibitions, unending education, museum studies, library and film studios, etc.
(5)to confer and award degrees diplomas, and certificates and provide for lectures, instruction and training for students as also for continuing education courses;
(6)to confer honorary degrees or other academic distinctions;
(7)to develop academic relationship with primary and secondary schools which satisfy the needs and standards of the University and to empower them to receive the benefits of the results of the work of the University, and gradually to the entire education system of the State;
(8)to create in the University campus as also elsewhere in the State, centres of education, research, training and extension services which will embody and crystallize the results of the work conducted by the University or elsewhere, and to spread benefits of the work of these centres to the entire system of teacher education in the State, and for that purpose to prepare teaching-learning materials;
(9)to set up, conduct and promote, under the responsibility of the Centre of Research, various councils for research in subjects, as follows:
(i)new roles of contemporary teachers;
(ii)Art and Science of nurturing gifted children;
(iii)Art and Science of care of the weak and of those who are psychologically and physically challenged;
(iv)special problems of childhood, adolescence and youth;
(v)philosophy and psychology of education in the light of indian pedagogy and contemporary' development;
(10)to set up, promote and conduct under the control and management of Centre of Research, several departments of research, instruction and communication in regard to themes, not so generic as those for the councils of research, but more specific and special such as those of:
(i)unity of knowledge and interdisciplinary studies;
(ii)new techniques of communication;
(iii)curriculum development : ordinary courses, advanced studies and specialized courses;
(iv)Indian and World history;
(v)multilingualism and Indian and international languages;
(vi)comprehensive physical education;
(vii)village reconstruction;
(viii)value-oriented education; and
(ix)techno-pedagogy, etc. .
(11)to set up, conduct and promote a department of research in testing and evaluation and to support the requirement of creating a new system of testing services for the following purposes
(i)removing from the students the fear of the examination so that tests are available by means of computer technology as and when the students are ready for the them, and even individually;
(ii)replacing the test of memory by the test of comprehension;
(iii)organizing tests for development of attitudes, aptitudes, personality, sterling qualities of character, and value oriented and skill oriented development, as also tests of physical fitness;
(12)to establish, conduct and promote under the centre of extension services a centre for continuing education and of telecasting programmes of social education throughout the State, which will stimulate all-round interest in the promotion of the teacher education formal, non-formal and informal, including methods of education through visits to museums and organization of exhibitions, and publications of brochures, pamphlets, occasional papers and other materials for the promotion of themes of teachers' education;
(13)to undertake, organize and conduct programmes for the purposes of teachers' training for those who are to be engaged in work of teaching in various schools and institutions and to provide them a general programme of introduction to philosophy of teacher education and to the philosophy of holistic education, as also elementary courses related to the lessons of history, with special reference to Indian culture, its underlying spirituality, robust intellectuality and inexhaustible vitality;
(14)to undertake, organize and conduct, under its Centre of Education, educational programmes for the University students admitted for various programmes of teacher education as also those engaged in research for M.Phil., Ph.D. and doctoral programmes relating to teacher education;
(a)to provide for instruction, extension, teaching and training in such branches or learning and courses of study as the University may, from time to time, determine;
(b)to conceive, design, conduct and promote under the auspices of its Centre of Education, for candidates having in their background successful twelve year school education, high level integrated five year courses in Teacher Education leading to the degrees of M.A. (Education), M.Sc. (Education), M.Com. (Education), M.Ed.(Humanities), M.Ed.(Science), M.Ed.(Fine Arts), M.Ed. (Crafts), M.Ed. (Commerce), M.Ed. (Vocational Education), M.Ed. (Value-oriented Education) and such other courses of general or specialised nature or else four year integrated courses leading to the degrees, such as those of B.A., B.Ed.; B.Sc., B.Ed.; B.Com, B.Ed., provided that the courses shall be of general or specialised nature, including specialisation in teaching languages, history, geography, economics, political science, logic, philosophy, psychology, etc., and such other four years or five years integrated courses have special component of physical education (theoretical and Practical) with specialisation in yogic asanas and pranayama-gymnastics-athletics-aquatics and games (indian and western) and exposure to or participation in activities of NSS, NCC and Scouts and Guides provided that these courses will have as their component parts foundational courses consisting of elements such as those of general knowledge, fundamental duties, indian culture, value-oriented education, skill-oriented education, and introduction to the global world, etc.;
(c)to develop specialised departments, under the auspices of the Centre of Education, which will conceive, design, conduct and promote foundational courses, core courses and elective courses for full time candidates of the University, covering a wide range of subjects of humanities, sciences, fine arts, commerce as also those that will aid teaching in schools such of the subjects or topics that are relevant to home science, agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, multiple vocational courses, rural arts and crafts, philosophy of education, psychology of rational, aesthetic and ethical education, and philosophy and psychology of spiritual and integral education, prenatal and early childcare, philosophy of rights for children, technology for children, science for children, children's literature, fundamental duties, education for the gifted children, education for psychologically and physically challenged children, children's rights, children's films, students' counselling, problems of curriculum development, problems of rural reconstruction, etc.;
(d)to provide interrelated connections amongst the following areas in all the integrated courses of teachers' education :-
Area 1 : Theoretical, Experiential and ExperimentalFoundations of Education.
Area 2 : Curriculum and Pedagogy.
Area 3 : Practicum Courses and School Internship.
(e)to conceive, design, conduct and promote under the auspices of its Centre for Training various short-term or longterm courses for pre-service or in-service training programmes centred on specific specialties or topics;
(f)to organise under its Centre of Training several specialised in-service training courses so as to serve those -
(i)who need to migrate to a foreign country and
(ii)such other groups of candidates or teachers who have special needs for training;
(g)to conceive, design, conduct and promote, under the auspices of its Centre for Extension Services, such programmes that are devoted to spreading in the society Science and Art of Pedagogy, as also Art and Science of Living, and lessons of Culture through various methods of instruction and publication of pamphlets and brochures, and other audio-visual material, specially designed to serve the parents to play the demanding new roles to become more and more competent teachers, and to enhance the causes of the aims of continuing education and lifelong education;
(h)to permit its own facilities such as laboratories, film studios, and exhibitions for legitimate use by the public at large.
(16)to create posts of Executive Officers, Directors, Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors, and other members of academic and non-academic staff of equivalent responsibility, teaching or non-teaching academic posts of the University with the prior approval of the Executive Council and to prescribe the qualifications in accordance with the guidelines of the University Grants Commission or All India Council for Technical Education and other national statutory bodies and make appointments thereto: as well as to create non-teaching skilled, administrative, ministerial and other posts and to prescribe the qualifications and pay-scales with prior approval of the State Government and to make appointments thereto;
(17)to appoint or recognize persons working in any other University or organization as adjunct professors, adjunct associate professors, adjunct assistant professors, visiting professors of the University for specified periods; and to facilitate mobility of academic members within the University and to other Universities;
(18)to designate a University centre or institution, to monitor, periodically inspect and evaluate the academic performance of various Centers, Colleges and Institutions for ensuring proper standards of research, education, training, extension services, teaching and adequate library, laboratory, hostel and other academic facilities, in accordance with the guidelines, if any, laid down by the University Grants Commission, NCTE or by the Executive Council;
(19)to make special provisions for the benefit of the University education to be made available to Socially and Educationally Backward Classes and communities particularly from rural and tribal areas;
(20)to supervise, control and regulate the conduct and discipline and periodical assessment of the performance of the students and employees;
(21)to establish teachers' education and training institutions of innovative education and to provide for education and training for implementation of the educational innovations;
(22)to endeavour to enrich the present system of teacher education so as to make it more responsive to the ideals of Indian Nationalism and Internationalism;
(23)to develop new system of teacher education as supplementary or alternative to existing system of teacher education for purposes of achieving Higher goals of excellence;
(24)to co-operate or collaborate with any other University, including any foreign University, Institution, Authority or Organization for research, educational, training and advisory services, as also for expansion of extensive services;
(25)to borrow funds for the purposes of the University on the security of the property of the University, subject to the prior approval of the State Government;
(26)to receive funds for collaboration programmes from foreign agencies subject to rules and regulations of the Central Government and State Government in that behalf;
(27)to organize and undertake extra-mural teaching and extension services;
(28)to fix, demand and receive fees and other charges;
(29)to supervise, control and regulate admission of students;
(30)to establish, organize, maintain, manage and supervise and control the functioning of centres, departments, institutions, generally, and in particular, laboratories, film studios, libraries, museums, computer centres and equipment;
(31)to implement the national literacy and adult education programme through teachers and students on voluntary basis in the University system and to evolve measures to give due emphasis to the efforts and performance of the students in this area in addition to their normal academic performance, and also to evaluate the performance of the teachers in this area;
(32)to hold and manage trusts and endowments and institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships, medals and prizes for teachers and students of the University;
(33)to receive grants, subventions, subscriptions, donations and gifts for the purpose of the University and consistent with the objects for which the University is established and to allocate and disburse grants out of the fund to institutions and courses recognized by it for the purpose of developing them so as to promote teacher education;
(34)to consult and obtain concurrence of the various bodies in respect of recognition and accreditation granted by the statutory boards and Universities for the purpose of arriving at equivalence of the course, programmes and evaluation system established by it with the existing standards of education; and
(35)to do all such other acts and things as the University may consider necessary, conducive or incidental to the attainment or promotion of the objects of the University.