Reporter Copyright © 2002 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.//: Cambridge Programme for Industry: Notice

Cambridge Programme for Industry: Notice

In their Joint Report on continuing education and lifelong learning and the Cambridge Programme for Industry (Reporter, 2000-01, p. 1004), the Council and the General Board proposed the establishment of a Council for Lifelong Learning, and the transfer of the Board of Continuing Education, with the new title Institute of Continuing Education, from the supervision of the Council to the supervision of the General Board. In addition, they proposed that the Cambridge Programme for Industry (CPI), currently part of the Board of Continuing Education, should in future be a General Board institution with its own Management Board. These proposals were approved by the Regent House by Grace 10 of 12 December 2001.

Under the previous arrangements for CPI the awarding body for certificates and other qualifications to persons who had performed satisfactorily in examinations or had satisfactorily completed the Programme's courses was the Board of Continuing Education. The General Board, on the recommendation of the Management Board of CPI and with the concurrence of the Management Board for the Institute of Continuing Education and the Council for Lifelong Learning, have now agreed to transfer to the Management Board of CPI the power to conduct examinations and award certain qualifications. As an institution under the supervision of the General Board, CPI will be subject to the same arrangements for quality assurance that apply to all General Board institutions.

The Board have accordingly agreed to amend Regulation 5 of the regulations for CPI (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 619), with immediate effect, as follows:

Regulation 5.

By amending the regulation so as to read:

5. The Management Board shall have authority

(a) to establish advisory bodies including persons who are not resident members of the University, representing interests and activities associated with industry, business, and government;

(b) to conduct examinations of those who have followed the Programme's courses primarily intended for persons who are not members of the University, and to award certificates of the Programme for satisfactory performance in such examinations in subjects approved by the General Board which may include a mark of distinction if the candidate deserves special credit;

(c) to award other qualifications, within categories approved by the General Board, to those who have followed the Programme's courses and whose work on those courses has been assessed by criteria determined by the Programme.

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