Reporter 25/11/98: Graces submitted to the Regent House on 25 November 1998

Graces submitted to the Regent House on 25 November 1998

The Council submit the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 115) will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 4 December 1998.

1. That the regulations for the French Cultural Delegation be amended as follows:

Regulation 2.

By amending sub-paragraph (b) so as to read:

(b) the Drapers Professor of French and the Head of the Department of French;¹

2. That, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Classics, the regulations for the Hare Prize be amended, with effect from 1 October 1999, as follows:

Regulation 4.

By replacing in the second sentence the words 'the division of the Lent Term' by the words 'the last day of the Lent Term'.

Regulation 5.

By replacing the words 'six dissertations' by the words 'three dissertations'.²

3. That the regulations for the C. T. Taylor Fund and Studentships be amended as follows:

Regulation 2.

By amending the regulation so as to read:

2. The income of the Fund shall be used to provide one or more Studentships, which shall be called C. T. Taylor Studentships, for persons who are not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom to enable them to undertake advanced study or research at Cambridge in science, including Engineering, Mathematics, Geography, and Land Economy, but excluding medical research.³

4. That the regulations for the Wellcome Fund for History of Medicine be rescinded.⁴

5. That the regulations for the Raymond and Edith Williamson Fund be amended as follows:

Regulation 2.

By deleting sub-paragraph (b), by relettering sub-paragraphs (d)-(e) as (b)-(d), and by amending sub-paragraph (d) (previously (e)) by replacing the words 'two persons' by the words 'three persons'.⁵

6. That a Neil Wiseman Fund be established in the University, to be governed by the following regulations:

Neil Wiseman Fund

1. The sums subscribed in memory of Neil Ernest Wiseman, Reader in Computer Graphics and Fellow of Wolfson College, shall form a fund called the Neil Wiseman Fund.

2. The income and the capital of the Fund, and any accumulated unspent income, shall be placed at the disposal of the Head of the Computer Laboratory and shall be used for the support of Graduate Students working in the Computer Laboratory.⁶

7. That Recommendation I contained in paragraph 72 of the Report, dated 3 June 1998, of the General Board on the recruitment, reward, and retention of academic and academic-related officers (Reporter, 1997-98, p. 804) be approved.⁷

8. That Recommendations II and III contained in paragraph 72 of the Report, dated 3 June 1998, of the General Board on the recruitment, reward, and retention of academic and academic-related officers (Reporter, 1997-98, p. 804) be approved.⁷

9. That Recommendations IV and V contained in paragraph 72 of the Report, dated 3 June 1998, of the General Board on the recruitment, reward, and retention of academic and academic-related officers (Reporter, 1997-98, p. 804) be approved.⁷

10. That Recommendation VI contained in paragraph 72 of the Report, dated 3 June 1998, of the General Board on the recruitment, reward, and retention of academic and academic-related officers (Reporter, 1997-98, p. 804) be approved.⁷

11. That the recommendations contained in paragraph 9 of the Joint Report, dated 26/21 October 1998, of the Council and the General Board on arrangements for the early retirement of University officers and University assistants (Reporter, p. 88) be approved, subject to the modifications specified in paragraph 3 of the Council's Notice dated 23 November 1998.⁸

¹ Statutes and Ordinances, p. 153. At present the Drapers Professor of French (or a member of the Regent House appointed by the Professor) is ex officio a member of the Advisory Committee for the French Cultural Delegation. Since the Headship of the Department of French is no longer linked to the Professorship, it is proposed that both the Drapers Professor and the Head of the Department should serve on the Advisory Committee.

² Statutes and Ordinances, p. 742. In the light of experience the Faculty Board consider it desirable to allow more time for the submission of dissertations and, in order to avoid excessive expenditure on payments to Adjudicators, to reduce from six to three the maximum number of dissertations that may be short-listed for submission to the Adjudicators.

³ Statutes and Ordinances, p. 835. It was the donor's wish that the fields of study should be 'forward-looking science subjects', and a list of permitted subjects was drawn up in consultation with him. The list included subjects falling within the scope of the Faculty of Biology 'A'. The regulations were amended in October 1996 to take account of the amalgamation of the Faculties of Biology 'A' and 'B' by including a list of Departments which previously comprised the Faculty of Biology 'A'. This list has proved cumbersome to administer, and the Managers wish to simplify the regulations. The proposed change has the approval of the donor's widow.

⁴ Statutes and Ordinances, p. 851. The funding provided by the Wellcome Trustees has now been terminated. See the General Board's Notice p. 179.

⁵ Statutes and Ordinances, p. 856. Following the suppression of the Wellcome Unit for History of Medicine, it is necessary to revise the composition of the Board of Managers of this Fund. See the General Board's Notice p. 179.

⁶ See the Vice-Chancellor's Notice, Reporter, p. 74. The regulations now proposed supersede those contained in Grace 1 of 28 October 1998, which was withdrawn (see Reporter, p. 139).

⁷ See the Council's Notice, p. 179.

⁸ See the Council's Notice, p. 178.

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