| (a) | the academic functions of the public college and the promotion of the participation of women and the disabled in the learning programmes; |
| (b) | establishing internal academic monitoring and quality promotion mechanism; |
| (c) | ensuring that the requirements of accreditation to provide learning against standards and qualifications registered on the National Qualifications Framework are met; and |
| (d) | performing such other functions as may be delegated or assigned to it by the council. |
| (2) | Subject to the approval of the council and to any applicable policy, the academic board must determine the learning programmes contemplated in section 43 that will be offered at the public college. |
| (3) | The academic board of a public college consists of— |
| (d) | members of the council; |
| (e) | members of the student representative council; and |
| (f) | such additional persons as may be determined by the council. |
| (4) | The number of persons contemplated in subsection (3)(c), (d), (e) and (f) and the manner in which they are appointed or elected, as the case may be, must be determined by the council in accordance with the college statute. |
| (5) | The majority of the members of the academic board must be lecturers. |
| (6) | The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, determine that a community education and training college specified in that Gazette does not require an academic board contemplated in section 9(1) if— |
| (a) | the diversity of qualifications or part-qualifications do not justify the establishment of an academic board; and |
| (b) | the decision is taken in the best interest of the college and delivering of continuing education and training within that college. |
[Subsection (6) added by section 5 of Act No. 1 of 2013]
| (7) | If the Minister publishes a notice in terms of subsection (6), the Department must perform the functions of the academic board applicable to the college. |
[Subsection (7) added by section 5 of Act No. 1 of 2013]
