Cap. 327 чл. 93Functions and powers of the Board of Governors.

(1) The Board of Governors shall be the highest governing body of the College and shall have the duty of performing the objectives and to exercise the powers of the College as laid down in the provisions of this Act, and shall in particular have the following functions:

(a) to acquire, administer and control the resources, facilities and property, both movable and immovable, of the College;

(b) to establish Institutes, departments, centres, programmes and other educational and training entities for the due performance of the educational and training tasks and of interdisciplinary co-operation;

(c) to distribute between the several Institutes and other educational and training entities within it the resources available to the College by way of funds and by way of premises, facilities, services, equipment and persons;

(d) to supervise the expenditure and the administration of the College at all levels and to approve the annual budget proposals to be submitted to the Minister within a given time;

(e) to appoint a Principal, and on his advice, also to appoint the Deputy Principals, the Heads of the Institutes and of other educational and training entities, on the basis of a definitive contract, and to set up, and abolish, any post of an academic, technical or other nature;

(f) to make statutes, rules and other procedures in terms of the provisions of this Act;

(g) to appoint Maltese or foreign examiners according to pre-established statutes and procedures, and to ensure that payment is effected for their services;

(h) to ensure that proper academic and training levels are retained and improved on, and to establish and supervise internal auditing schemes which ensure the quality of education;

(i) to enter into such agreements as appear to it necessary with sectors of economic activity in the country and with institutions in Malta and overseas for the better achievement of the objectives of the College;

(j) to do anything which it may deem necessary to be done to achieve the objectives of the College and to execute the powers and functions of the College which have not been previously vested in another governing body of the College: Provided that the Institutes, departments, centres, programmes on other education and training entities as referred to in paragraph (b) may be established by the Board of Governors, following consultation with the Council of Institutes, and their establishment, statutes and regulations are to be deemed to have come in force on that date that the Minister may by notice establish in the Gazette.

(2) The Board of Governors shall also approve the curricula and the syllabi submitted by the Institute and by each educational and training entity within it and, where it deems it so necessary, to revert same to such Institutes or entities together with its advice about any proposed amendments.

(3) The Board of Governors shall, where so approved by the National Commission for Further and Higher Education, certify the capabilities for the exercise of a trade, calling and profession, and also of proficiency in any trade, technical work, technology, or any other commercial or economic activity.

(4) The Board of Governors shall ensure that the qualification degrees, diplomas, distinctions and certificates of the College are recognised both at a national and at an international level, and that, wherever applicable, are related to the standards established by the National Commission for Further and Higher Education.

(5) The Board of Governors shall meet at least once every two months with a quorum of not less than one-half of the number of members of the Board plus one.