S.L. 327.447 Art. 9Duties of the Director.

The duties of the Vice-Chairman/Director shall include:

(a) general responsibility for the running of the Centre in terms of the aims listed in article 4(a) to (i);

(b) promoting the development and implementation of the Centre’s curricula and research programmes;

(c) compiling and submitting to the Registrar by not later than January of each academic year, an updated comprehensive prospectus of the content descriptions of all current and projected study-units and services offered by the Centre as approved by the Board and in accordance with guidelines established by the Programme Validation Committee;

(d) ensuring that the study-units offered by the staff members of the Centre are delivered in accordance with the advertised programme of studies; the Director must ensure that lecturing staff under his remit deliver all lectures, seminars and tutorials assigned to them respectively, at the time and venue advertised in the official timetable, and that any deviations thereof are formally registered, and the students duly notified in good time;

(e) delivering and implementing the strategic plan of the Centre;

(f) administering the Centre in full consultation with the members; monitoring and approving requests for leave of absence of members of the Centre; maintaining records of all leave taken by members and passing on these records to the Director of Human Resources Management and Development upon request;

(g) promoting students’ academic and personal welfare, providing first-line support to students with any difficulties they may encounter during their studies related to the activities of the Centre;

(h) monitoring the running of examinations in the Centre and ensuring that all assessment and examination results, where applicable in the case of formal study-units, are submitted to the Registrar’s office as follows: • January session - by the end of March; • May/June session - final year results by not later than two working days prior to the final year degree classification board of the students’ home faculty but in any case not later than end of July, other results as early as possible but not later than the end of July; • September session - by the end of September.

(i) encouraging and facilitating co-operation with other universities and other institutions;

(j) chairing meetings of the Board in the absence and with the permission of the Chairman;

(k) ensuring and facilitating the further development and training of academic and non-academic staff;

(l) participating at any meeting of the University congruent with the post;

(m) representing the Centre during official functions of the University;

(n) compiling and submitting to the Secretary of the University by the end of September of each academic year, an annual report approved by the Board, outlining the activities of the Centre for the outgoing year, which should include, amongst others, information that may be requested by the Secretary: a comprehensive list of recent publications of all members of the Centre; a synopsis of all projects involving members of the Centre which are wholly or partially externally funded; a list of all conferences/ seminars/meetings attended abroad by members of the Centre during term time; and an outline of the Centre’s collaboration with third parties including local industry, Government or civil society at large;

(o) compiling and submitting to the Director of Finance of the University, by not later than end of May of each academic year, budgetary estimates approved by the Board for the following year including a manpower plan for the Centre, to cover the projected teaching, research and administration workload of the Centre, and based on the projected workload for each Resident Academic member of the Centre and Visiting Teaching Staff;

(p) monitoring the performance of the non-academic staff attached to the Centre;

(q) authorising the Centre’s procurement of equipment; ensuring that the resources assigned to the Centre -whether human or other - are utilized fully and efficiently; and

(r) performing other duties which may be assigned by the University from time to time.