Invested with the power of controlling and generally regulating teaching, courses of studies to be pursued and maintenance of the standards thereof, and for those purposes the Academic Council is competent to make regulations, amongst others, relating to the courses, schemes of examinations and conditions on which students shall be admitted to the examinations, degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions. The Academic Council is thereby invested with power to control the entire academic life of the student from the stage of admission to a course of study to the ultimate conferment of a degree or academic distinction. University of Mysore v. Gopala Gowda, AIR 1965 SC 1932.