Technological Academic Achievement

THE DEGREE AWARDING STATUS TO DAWOOD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, KARACHI ACT, 2010   ACT NO. XXIII OF 2010 The “Degree Awarding Status to Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, Karachi Act, 2010” is an important piece of legislation in Pakistan that granted degree-awarding status to Dawood College of Engineering and Technology (DCET) in Karachi. This act paved the way for DCET to confer degrees to its students, thereby expanding its academic offerings and recognition. An Act to provide for Degree Awarding Status to Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, Karachi WHEREAS it is expedient to make provisions to grant degree awarding status to Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, Karachi and for matters connected therewith or ancillary thereto; It is hereby enacted as follows:_ CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY Short title and commencement.___ (1) This Act may be called the Degree Awarding Status to Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Act, 2010. (2) It shall come into force at once and shall be deemed to have taken effect on the 29th of November, 2009. Definitions. ___ In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,___ (a) “Academic Council” means the Academic Council of the College established under section 22; (b) “Authority” means any of the Authorities of the College specified in section 17; (c) “Campus” means campus of the College; (d) “Chancellor” means the Chancellor of the College; (e) “College” means the Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, Karachi; (f) “College Teacher” or “teacher” means a whole time teacher appointed and paid by the College or its campuses which includesProfessors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors and Lecturers; (g) “Commission” means the Higher Education Commission set up under the Higher Education Commission Ordinance, 2002; (h) “Dean” means the head of a Faculty or the head of an academic body granted the status of a Faculty under this Act or by the statutes or regulations; (i) “Department” means a teaching department maintained and administered or recognized by the College in the manner prescribed; (j) “Director” means the head of a campus; (k) “Faculty” means an administrative and academic unit of the College consisting of one or more departments as prescribed; (l) “Government” means the Federal Government; (m) “prescribed” means prescribed by statutes, regulations or rules made under the Act; (n) “Principal” means the Principal of the College; (o) “Pro-Chancellor” means the Pro­Chancellor of the College; (p) “Representation Committee” means Representation Committee constituted under section 24; (q) “Search Committee” means the Search Committee set up by the Senate under section 13; (r) “Senate” means the Senate of the College; (s) “Statutes”, “regulations” and “rules” means respectively the statutes, the regulations and the rules made under this Act for the time being in force; and (t) “Syndicate” means the Syndicate of the College. CHAPTER II THE COLLEGE Incorporation.___(1) The Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, Karachi is hereby reconstituted and setup as a degree awarding institution. (2) The College shall consist of the following, namely: ___ (a) the Chancellor, the Pro-Chancellor, the Principal and the members of the Senate; (b) the members of the Authorities of the College established under section 17; (c) all College Teachers and persons recognized as students of the College in accordance with terms prescribed from time to time; and (d) all other full-time officers and members of the College. (3) The College shall be a body corporate known as the Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, Karachi and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and may sue and be sued by the said name. (4) The College shall be competent to acquire and hold property, both movable and immovable and to lease, sell or otherwise transfer any movable and immovable property which may have become vested in or been acquired by it. (5) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the College shall have academic, financial and administrative autonomy, including the power to employ officers, teachers and other employees on such terms as may be prescribed, subject to the provisions of this Act. In particular and without prejudice to the authority granted to Ministry of Education by the law, the Government or an authority or auditor appointed by the Government shall have no power to question the policy underlying the allocation of resources approved by the Senate in the annual budget of the College. (6) All properties, rights and interests of whatever kind, used, enjoyed, possessed, owned or vested in or held in trust by or for the College and liabilities legally subsisting against the College in existence shall pass to the College re-constituted under this Act. Powers and purposes of the College.___ The College shall have the following powers, namely.— (i) to provide for education and scholarship in such branches of knowledge as it may deem fit, and to make provision for research, service to society and for the application, advancement and dissemination of knowledge in such manner as it may determine; (ii) to prescribe courses of studies to be conducted by it and in its campuses; (iii) to hold examination and to award and confer degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions to and on persons who have been admitted to and have passed its examinations under prescribed conditions; (iv) to prescribe the terms and conditions of employment of the officers, teachers and other employees of the College and to lay down terms and conditions that may be different from those applicable to government servants in general; (v) to engage, where necessary, persons on contracts of specified duration and to specify the terms of each engagement; (vi) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions on approved persons in the manner prescribed; (vii) to provide for instructions for persons not being students of the College as it may prescribe and to grant certificates and diplomas to such persons; (viii) to institute programmes for the exchange of students and teachers between the College and other universities, educational institutions and research organizations, inside as well as outside