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Powers and functions of the University - The University shall have the following powers and functions namely; (i) to provide for instruction in such branches of learning as the University may from time to time determine and to make provisions for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge; (ii) to grant, subject to such conditions as the University may determine, diplomas or certificates to, and confer degrees and other academic distinctions on the basis of examinations, evaluation or any other method of testing on, persons, and to withdraw any such diplomas, certificates, degrees or other academic distinctions for good and sufficient cause; (iii) to organise and to undertake extramural studies and extension services; (iv) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner prescribed by the statutes; (v) to provide instruction, for such courses of study including the course of study by correspondence, to such persons as are not members of the University, as it may determine; (vi) to institute Professorships, Readerships, Lecturerships, Principalships, and other teaching or academic posts required by the University and to appoint persons to such Professorships, Readerships, Lecturerships, Principalships, or other posts; (vii) to recognise persons working in any institution associated with the University for imparting instructions or supervising research or both, and to withdraw such recognition; (viii) to appoint persons working in any other University college or institution or organisation as teachers of the University for a specified period; (ix) to create administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto; (x) to co-operate or collaborate or associate with any other University or authority or institution of higher learning in such manner, and for such purposes, as the University may determine; (xi) to establish such campuses, special centres specialised laboratories or other units for research and institution as are, in the opinion of the University, necessary for the furtherance of its objects; (xii) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships, medals and prizes; (xiii) to establish, maintain and manage colleges and hostels in the University campus, and to establish and maintain colleges, institutions and hostels in any part of the headquarters of the University; (xiv) to make provision or research and advisory services and for that purposes to enter into such arrangements with other institutions or bodies as the University may deem necessary; (xv) to declare a department as an autonomous department; (xvi) to determine standards for admission into the University which may include examination, evaluation or any other method of testing; (xvii) to demand and receive payment of fees and other charges; (xviii) to supervise the residence of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health and general welfare; (xix) to regulate and enforce discipline among the teachers and other employees and students of the University and take such disciplinary measure in this regard as may be deemed by the University to be necessary; (xx) to make arrangements for promoting the health and general welfare of the teachers and other employees ; (xxi) to receive donations and to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of any property, movable or immovable, including trust and endowment properties for the purposes of the University; (xxii) to borrow, with the prior written approval of the Government, on the security of the property of the University, moneys for the purpose of the University; (xxiii) to institute and manage publication bureau, employment bureau, and University extension boards; (xxiv) to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the University.