The Council submit the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, unless they are withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 115), will be deemed to have been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 June 2004.
1. That a Isbel Fletcher Garden Fund and Scholarship be established in the University to be governed by the following regulations:1
1. The bequest to the University by the late Mrs Isbel Fletcher Garden shall form a fund to be called the Isbel Fletcher Garden Fund. The income of the Fund shall be used to provide a Scholarship, which shall be called the Isbel Fletcher Garden Scholarship, for the promotion of study or research in Archaeology or Astronomy.
2. The Fund shall be administered by four Managers who shall be:
(a) the Head of the Department of Archaeology;
(b) the Director of the Institute of Astronomy;
(c) one person appointed by the Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology;
(d) one person appointed by the Faculty Board of Physics and Chemistry.
Managers in classes (c) and (d) shall serve for three years from 1 October following their appointment.
3. The Scholarship shall be awarded from time to time in Archaeology and Astronomy alternately, if there is a candidate of sufficient merit.
4. The Managers shall give at least six months' notice of their intention to proceed to an election. In such a notice they shall indicate the subject of the award, and the date by which, and the manner in which, applications are to be submitted.
5. If, after the publication of such a notice, there is no candidate of sufficient merit in the nominated subject, the Managers may at their discretion make arrangements for the award of the Scholarship in the other subject.
6. The Scholarship shall be open to any person who is or is about to be registered as a Graduate Student in the University.
7. The Scholarship shall be tenable for one, two, or three years in the first instance as the Managers shall determine; a Scholar shall be eligible for re-election, provided that the tenure of the Scholarship shall not normally exceed three years in total.
8. The annual stipend of a Scholar shall be such sum not exceeding the available income of the Fund as may be determined by the Managers, within a range approved from time to time by the Council, after they have taken account of any other financial resources that may be available to the Scholar.
9. Any unexpended income may be either accumulated for use as income in subsequent years, or applied at the discretion of the Managers to make grants to the Scholar, during the tenure of his or her Scholarship, to meet additional costs arising from his or her course, including the cost of additional training, conferences, fieldwork, or other courses.
1 See the Vice-Chancellor's Notice, p. 710.
2. That a John Hickman Prize in Equine Studies be established in the University to be governed by the following regulations:1
1. The sums subscribed in memory of Colonel John Hickman, of King's College, Emeritus Reader in Animal Surgery, who died on 2 January 2000, shall form a fund, to be called the John Hickman Fund, the income of which shall be used to provide a John Hickman Prize in Equine Studies.
2. The Managers of the Fund shall be the Head of the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, the Deputy Head of that Department, the University Equine Surgeon, and the University Lecturer in Equine Medicine.
3. The Prize shall be awarded by the Examiners for Part III of the Final Veterinary Examination to the candidate who has obtained the highest recommendation on clinical rotations in equine studies during the final year and who has also obtained good marks in Section 1, Equine Studies, in that Examination.
4. The value of the Prize shall be a sum determined by the Head of the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, within a range approved from time to time by the Council.
5. Any unexpended income of the Fund in a financial year may be added either to the capital of the Fund or accumulated for use as income in a subsequent year, as the Managers shall determine.
3. That the regulations for the Robert Walker Prize in Surgery be amended as follows:2
Regulation 2.
By amending the regulation so as to read:
2. The Prize shall be awarded by the Examiners for Part III of the Final Veterinary Examination to the candidate who has obtained the highest recommendation on clinical rotations in Small Animal Surgery during the final year and who has also obtained good marks in Small Animal Surgery in that Examination.
4. That, on the recommendation of the General Board, the regulations for payments to Examiners and Assessors be amended by replacing at each occurrence the words 'Principal External Examiner' by the words 'Moderating External Examiner' and by further amending Regulation 3 as follows:3
Regulation 3.
By relettering provisos (ii)-(iii) as (iii)-(iv) and inserting a new proviso (ii) so as to read:
(ii) the General Board shall have discretion in special circumstances to authorize supplementary payments to any Examiner or Assessor acting under any of the sub-sections (a)-(f) below;
5. That the recommendations in paragraph 9 of the Report of the General Board, dated 10 March 2004, on the establishment of two Professorships of Education (Reporter, p. 561) be approved.4
1 See the Vice-Chancellor's Notice, p. 710.
2 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 885. The regulations for the Prize have been amended to take account of changes in Part III of the Final Veterinary Examination.
3 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 221. The General Board have recommended a revision of the title 'Principal External Examiner' following consideration of the duties of persons appointed to this post; the Board consider that the term 'Moderating External Examiner' would more accurately reflect the role of the appointment. The Board have also recommended, in the light of experience, that it would be appropriate to allow for the award of supplementary payments to Examiners and Assessors, in light of their particular duties. Such payments would be considered on a case-by-case basis, on the advice of the nominating body for the examination concerned. Any person who is ineligible to receive a payment in respect of examination duties would be ineligible for supplementary payments in respect of these duties.
4 See the Council's Notice, p. 711.
6. That, on the recommendation of the Library Syndicate, the Librarian be allowed to lend the following items:
to the New York Public Library, for the exhibition 'The Newtonian Moment' from 8 October 2004 to 5 February 2005, twenty-eight manuscripts from the Library's Newton collections and one printed book, an annotated copy of Isaac Newton, Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica.