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 These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 109), will be deemed to have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, 18 August 2006.
1. That the regulations for University Composition Fees be amended as follows:
By deleting the entry for the Diploma in Public Health (full and part-time).1
Courses leading to examinations for the M.St. Degree
By amending certain entries so as to read:
| Annual £ | |
| Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment | 4,750 |
| Modernism | 2,750 |
2. That (i) the stipends for all non-clinical University staff whose stipends are steps on the Cambridge general stipend and salary scale be increased as set out in the Council's Notice on University salaries and stipends (p. 924), and
(ii) the stipends for officers whose stipends are not steps on the general scale, except the stipend of the Deputy High Steward,2 be increased by 3% with effect from 1 August 2006 until 31 January 2007; by 1% from their then-existing levels with effect from 1 February until 31 July 2007; by 3% from their then-existing levels with effect from 1 August 2007 until 30 April 2008; and by 3% from their then-existing levels with effect from 1 May 2008 until 30 September 2008.3
3. A. That the regulations for the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance be amended as follows:4
Regulation 2.
By replacing the members in classes (b) and (c) so as to read:
| (b) | the Director of Judge Business School; |
| (c) | nine members (of whom one shall be a professor of finance external to the University) appointed by the Faculty Board of Business and Management; |
and by adding a final sentence to the regulation so as to read:
Members in class (c) shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term to serve for four years from 1 January following their appointment.
Regulation 3.
By renumbering this regulation as 4 and by inserting a new Regulation 3 so as to read:
3. No business shall be transacted at any meeting of the Managers unless five members are present.
B. That in the first instance the members in class (c) of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance be appointed as follows:
Three to 31 December 2007, three to 31 December 2008, and three to 31 December 2009.
4. That, on the recommendation of the General Board, the regulations for the Sir Bartle Frere's Memorial Fund be amended as follows:5
Regulations 3 and 4.
By amending the regulations so as to read:
3. The Managers of the Fund shall be the Managers of the Mary Euphrasia Mosley Fund. In each year the Managers shall award one or more Bartle Frere Exhibitions before the end of the Easter Term if suitable candidates present themselves.
4. The Exhibitions shall normally be tenable for one year, but may be prolonged for a second year at the discretion of the Managers. They shall be tenable with other emoluments.
5. That the regulations for the Sedgwick Prize be amended, with effect from 1 October 2006, so as to read:6
Endowments, 1904, p. 404
1. A prize, called the Sedgwick Prize, shall be given every second year for the best essay on some subject in Geology or the kindred sciences.
2. The Prize shall be open to all University officers and Fellows of Colleges, and to other persons employed by the University to carry out research in the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Geography, who have resided sixty days during the twelve months preceding the day on or before which the essays are to be sent in.
3. The essays shall be sent to the Registrary on or before 1 October 2007; and so on every second year. Each essay shall be clearly written, or printed, or typewritten. It is open to candidates to incorporate in their essays material which they have already published, but they are expected to submit a connected presentation of their complete investigations.
4. The successful candidate shall receive two years' net income of the Fund, or, if no essay be thought worthy of a Prize, this amount shall be added to the capital of the Fund.
5. The Examiners shall be the Woodwardian Professor of Geology, and two persons appointed by the General Board on the nomination of the Faculty Board of Earth Sciences and Geography. Each of the Examiners appointed by the General Board shall receive such sum from the income of the Prize Fund, except where no essay is sent in, as shall be determined by the Faculty Board of Earth Sciences and Geography within a range approved from time to time by the Council.
6. If an Examiner is prevented by illness or other cause from examining, a deputy shall be appointed by the General Board on the nomination of the Faculty Board of Earth Sciences and Geography.
7. The Examiners appointed in the Michaelmas Term 2006 shall hold office until the end of the Lent Term 2008, that is to say, until the award has been made. The new Examiners shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term 2007, and they shall then, in consultation with the outgoing Examiners, select a subject for the essays on which the award is to be made in the Lent Term 2010; and so on every second year.
8. The Examiners appointed in the Michaelmas Term 2006 shall award the Prize some time in the Lent Term 2008, and at the same time the Woodwardian Professor of Geology shall announce the subject for the next essay; and so on every second year.
9. The University shall have power to alter and amend this scheme from time to time by Grace, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Earth Sciences and Geography.
6. That a 2009 Computer Laboratory Research Students Fund be established in the University to be governed by the following regulations:7
1. There shall be a fund called the 2009 Computer Laboratory Research Students Fund. The aim of the Fund shall be the support of doctoral research students of the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.
2. The Fund shall be managed by the Faculty Board of Computer Science and Technology, who may delegate any of their functions concerning the Fund to a Committee not necessarily composed wholly of members of the Board.
3. The income of the Fund shall be applied by the Managers to provide financial support to doctoral research students of the Computer Laboratory. The support may contribute towards the following:
| (i) | a maintenance payment to a level determined from time to time by the Managers, |
| (ii) | a payment to meet the student's University and College fees, |
| (iii) | other costs such as additional training, equipment, travel expenses, conferences etc., according to the discretion of the Managers. |
In considering a student for an award from the Fund the Managers shall have regard to evidence of academic merit.
4. In order to be eligible for support a candidate must have been accepted to follow a course of research towards the Ph.D. Degree in the Computer Laboratory and have been admitted, or be seeking admission by the Board of Graduate Studies as a registered Graduate Student in the University. If the candidate is not already a member of the University he or she shall become such by being matriculated before the end of the Michaelmas Term next after his or her acceptance as a doctoral student, provided that for good cause the Managers may allow matriculation to be deferred until a later date.
5. Recipients of an award may, at the discretion of the Managers and with the agreement of the individual donors, be designated as Named Students, and each such Studentship shall include reference to the name of a person or body that has contributed to the Fund.
6. Any unexpended income may, at the discretion of the Managers, either be added to the capital of the Fund, or accumulated for use as income in any one or more subsequent years, or applied to the benefit of doctoral students in the Computer Laboratory more generally.
7. In exceptional circumstances the Managers may use such part or parts of the capital of the Fund not earmarked for endowment purposes as they shall determine to support students as set out in Regulation 3 above.
7. That a Chemistry Next Generation Fund be established in the University to be governed by the following regulations:8
1. The sums received from the Walters Kundert Charitable Trust and from Dr Philip Joseph Brown for the purpose of supporting research in any field of chemistry by persons of any age who are at an early stage of their academic careers in the Department of Chemistry shall form a fund called the Chemistry Next Generation Fund, which shall be used for that purpose. The Fund may include other sums received from other bodies or persons for the same purpose.
2. The Managers of the Fund shall be the Head of the Department of Chemistry, the Geoffrey Moorhouse-Gibson Professor of Chemistry, the Professor of Physical Chemistry (1920), the Professor of Chemistry (1968), and the BP Professor of Chemistry (1702). If one Manager is both the Head of Department of Chemistry and one of the Professors named above, then in the event of a tied decision, that Manager will have a casting vote.
3. The capital and income of the Fund shall be used to provide unrestricted grants of £50,000 a year (or such lesser amount as the Managers may in their discretion award) to support the research in the Department of Chemistry of one or more Next Generation Fellows. The Managers shall determine the tenure of each Fellowship and may extend such tenure for one or more years provided that the maximum period of tenure shall be five years. In the event that any Next Generation Fellow ceases to be an employee of the University, his or her Next Generation Fellowship shall cease and any accompanying grant will also be terminated.
4. The Managers of the Fund shall be responsible for awarding Next Generation Fellowships. The titles of Fellowships awarded by the Managers may at the discretion of the Managers include reference to the names of persons or bodies which have contributed to the Fund, save that the Fellowships awarded shall include at least one Walters Kundert Next Generation Fellowship and at least one Philip and Patricia Brown Next Generation Fellowship.
5. Any unexpended income in a financial year may be accumulated and expended in any one or more subsequent years in accordance with Regulation 3.
1 See the General Board's Notice on p. 447.
2 By ancient custom the Deputy High Steward receives a nominal stipend of £4 a year.
3 See the Council's Notice, p. 924.
4 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 723. The Managers of the Fund have proposed an increase in their number so that a broader membership is possible.
5 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 752. The General Board have recommended that, to simplify the applications procedure for this Fund, its administration should be taken over by the Managers of the Mary Euphrasia Mosley Fund; they have accepted the recommendation of the Managers of that Fund that preference be given to candidates who are undergraduates.
6 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 843. The Sedgwick Prize is currently awarded every third year and is open to resident graduates of the University only, with the result that persons employed by the University or by the Colleges who do not hold a University of Cambridge degree are not eligible and submissions from such persons have been rejected. In recent years very few eligible submissions for this Prize have been received. The Faculty Board of Earth Sciences and Geography have therefore recommended amendments to the regulations for the Prize to broaden the conditions for eligibility. The Board have also proposed that the Prize in future be awarded every other year as the income of the Fund can now support a more frequent award.
7 See the Vice-Chancellor's Notice, p. 922.
8 See the Vice-Chancellor's Notice, p. 922.