The Council has considered the remarks made at the Discussion of this Report on 5 December 2006 (Reporter, p. 243) and has referred them to the General Board who have commented as follows.
Dr M. R. Minden's remarks reaffirm the strength of, and the Faculty Board's support for, the academic case in support of the Report's recommendations. The Board do not agree with Dr D. R. de Lacey's view that the Faculty Board have adopted a 'piecemeal' approach to the future of the languages offered within the Department of Other Languages. The proposals are the result of careful discussions and consultation within the Faculty; and the Board accepted them on the Faculty Board's assurance that proposals concerning the remainder of the Department of Other Languages would follow very shortly. Both Dr de Lacey and Professor G. R. Evans compared the recommendations in this Report with the languages covered in the forthcoming Discussion of a Topic of Concern to the University (Reporter, 22 November 2006, p. 170). That topic relates to the Faculty of Oriental Studies about which the Board will shortly be reporting (see p. 314). The circumstances of the two Faculties are different and the General Board see no reason to delay the recommendations of the current Report until that Discussion.
The Council has agreed to submit a Grace (Grace 2, p. 318) to the Regent House for the approval of the recommendations in the Report.