Cambridge University Reporter


Graces submitted to the Regent House on 15 March 2006

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 These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 109), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 24 March 2006.

1. That the regulations for University Composition Fees, as amended by Grace 4 of 7 December 2005, be further amended as follows:1

TABLE OF FEES

With effect from 1 September 2006

(i) By amending certain entries in the table so as to read:

CategoryAnnualMichaelmas
Term
Lent
Term
Easter
Term
 ££££
   Home and EU undergraduate, other than
    Channel Islands and Isle of Man:*
  Continuing students
ABand 11,200400400400
BBand 21,200400400400
CBand 31,200400**400400
NLaw Tripos, Modern and Medieval
  Languages Tripos, and Oriental
  Studies Tripos, period abroad
600200200200
  Students commencing in 2006-07 or later years
ABand 13,0001,0001,0001,000
BBand 23,0001,0001,0001,000
CBand 33,0001,0001,0001,000
NLaw Tripos, Modern and Medieval
  Languages Tripos, and Oriental
  Studies Tripos, period abroad
1,500500500500
 
DHome and EU postgraduate (Bands 1-3)3,1681,0561,0561,056
 
  M.B.A.:
HOne term in residence9,600 
ITwo terms in residence17,500 
JThree terms in residence26,000 

(ii) By deleting from the table the entry for the Diploma in Public Health, part-time (categories P and R).

With effect from 1 September 2007

By introducing two new categories, P and S, for certain courses leading to the M.Phil. Degree and by amending certain entries in the table so as to read:

CategoryAnnualMichaelmas
Term
Lent
Term
Easter
Term
 ££££
PHome and EU postgraduate (Band 4)7,0002,3342,3332,333
 
Overseas students
2007-08
EBand 19,0543,0183,0183,018
FBand 211,8623,9543,9543,954
GBand 321,9547,3187,3187,318
 
SBand 412,4004,1344,1334,133

* For 2006-07 the rate of £1,200 (or £600 for Category N) shall apply to home and EU undergraduate student members of the University who started a relevant course before 1 September 2006 or who had deferred entry to the course from an earlier year (continuing students); the rate of £3,000 (or £1,500 for Category N) shall apply to home and EU undergraduate student members of the University who start a relevant course with effect from 1 September 2006 and have not deferred entry to the course from an earlier year (students commencing in 2006-07 or later years).

** £600 for clinical medical students following a course under the Revised Regulations for the M.B., B.Chir. Degree, in their final Michaelmas Term.

SCHEDULE

Courses leading to Diplomas

With effect from 1 October 2006

By deleting the entry for Architecture.

Courses leading to examinations for the M.Phil. Degree

With effect from 1 October 2006

By inserting the following entry:

Public Health

DDF

With effect from 1 October 2007

By amending the entry for Economics so as to read:

Economics

PPS

2. That the regulations for the H. B. and Dorothy A. Whittington Fund be amended as follows:2

Regulation 3.

By amending the regulation so as to read:

3. The income of the Fund shall be applied to support, by way of grants,

(a)graduate and postdoctoral students in the Department to visit Museums to study existing collections, to collect new material in the field, to confer with specialists on matters relevant to their research, to attend conferences, or to obtain pieces of equipment necessary for the prosecution of a particular research project,
and,provided the income allows,
(b)persons visiting the Department for periods of less than six months who wish to pursue a specific piece of palaeontological research that will have at least some involvement with collections of the Sedgwick Museum.

Regulation 5.

By amending the regulation so as to read:

5. The Fund shall not be available for stipends, nor may it be used for expenditure connected with the Sedgwick Museum other than as specified in Regulation 3.

3. That the recommendations in paragraph 7 of the Report of the General Board, dated 8 February 2006, on the establishment of a Professorship of Statistics (Reporter, p. 406) be approved.

4. That Professor Howard Allaker Chase, M, be appointed a member of the Finance Committee of the Council to serve for three years from 1 January 2006.

1 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 159. See the Council's Notice, p. 478. No information is yet available about the fees to be charged in 2006-07 for continuing students under categories U-Y (undergraduate students from the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man). The opportunity has been taken to include recent amendments to various postgraduate courses (see the General Board's Notices on p. 447 and in Reporter, 2003-04, p. 286).

2 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 883. The Managers of the Fund have proposed that, if the income of the Fund can support it, grants should be made available to visitors who wish to carry out research using the collections of the Sedgwick Museum. Professor Whittington has given his support to this amendment.

T. J. MEAD, Registrary

END OF THE OFFICIAL PART OF THE 'REPORTER'