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(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 and control the resources, facilities and property, both movable and immovable, of the College:

Provided that insofar as immovable property is concerned, the College and, or any of its Principal Officers shall be precluded, both ipso facto and ipso jure, from alienating, transferring, selling, hypothecating or otherwise burdening and, or encumbering such property and, or from assigning any rights, obligations and, or title thereto to third parties to further such third parties’ private, commercial, financial and, or profit-making interests to the detriment of any above-mentioned educational purposes and associated support services in line with the College’s purposes and functions as outlined in article 7:

Provided further that the Board of Governors may resolve to allow an exemption to this restriction should a decision of the Board of Governors be taken by unanimous vote when all of its members are present. The objective criteria and reasons upon which the Board has based its decision shall be explicitly and expressly minuted on pain of nullity of its CAP.638. TECHNOLOGY

decision;

(b) to facilitate relations with the Industry and to ensure the continuous connectivity between the College and the Industry as to be able to reflect the exigencies of the Industry in the College’s methods, educational programmes and curricula;

(c) to approve the establishment of associate academies and institutes for the due performance of the educational and training tasks and of interdisciplinary co-operation;

(d) to approve the three-year Strategic Plan of the College;

(e) in support of the three-year strategic plan, to approve and ensure the execution of a three-year financial plan to approve the yearly budget of the College in line with the three-year strategic plan, which financial plan shall include a human resources plan;

(f) 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;

(g) to appoint, after a public call, a Principal and, on his advice, to also appoint the executive or senior managerial positions within the College;

(h) to set up and abolish, on the advice of the Principal, any post of an academic and administrative nature within the College;

(i) to make statutes, rules and other procedures, of a non-academic nature, in terms of the provisions of this Act;

(j) together with the Vocational and Professional Council, to ensure that proper education levels are retained and improved on, and to establish and supervise internal auditing schemes which ensure the quality of education;

(k) to facilitate agreements as appears 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;

(l) to establish and oversee the operations of the Internal Audit Office whose main function shall be the assurance of the proper functioning and good governance in the day-to-day operations of the College.

(2) The Board of Governors shall oversee that the qualification degrees, diplomas, awards, 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 MFHEA.

(3) The Board of Governors shall meet to focus on strategic orientation and strategic decisions. The Board shall meet as necessary, however not less than once every two (2) months with a quorum of not less than half of the number of members of the Board plus one.