General Council (Scottish university)

The general council of an ancient university in Scotland is the corporate body of all graduates and senior academics of each university. They were instituted by the Universities (Scotland) Act 1858, but each has had its constitution and organisation considerably altered by subsequent statutes.

The Act of 1858 established a tripartite structure of the general council (advisory body), university court (finance and administration), and academic senate (academic affairs).

The chancellor of each university is elected by the general council and is President of the Council.

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.

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