Role
The business of each Council is to take into consideration all questions affecting the well-being and prosperity of each university, and to make representations from time to time on such questions to the University Court, who shall consider the same, and return to the Council their deliverance thereon.
Each Council elects Assessors to the University Court. No member of the Senatus Academicus is entitled to vote or take part in the election of any Assessor of the General Council. (The Senate elects its own Assessors to the Court.)
Under the Universities (Scotland) Act 1966, new Ordinances and Resolutions are communicated in draft form to the General Council, whose opinion thereon is taken into consideration.
The General Council of the four ancient universities in Scotland is an advisory body to the respective university whose membership is all the graduates and academics of the university.
The most significant functions of the General Council is appointing people to serve on the University Court (the governing body of each university), of whom there must be at least four, and of electing the Chancellor. The Chancellor is the titular head of the university and serves for life.
Its terms of reference also include the requirement to "take into consideration all questions affecting the well-being and prosperity of the University" and "make representations from time to time on such questions to the University Court". These activities are carried out by half-yearly meetings whilst a Business Committee prepares the papers put forward to these meetings.
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