(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 356)
Candidates will no longer be required to give a presentation of their project as part of the examination. The procedure for the announcement of project titles and the dates for the submission of projects have been amended. The regulations have been amended as set out below.
Current students have been notified of the changes via the course handbook. The Committee of Management for the Natural Sciences Tripos and the Faculty Board of Biology are satisfied that no candidate for the examination in 2007 will be disadvantaged by these changes.
Regulation 30.
By deleting the third paragraph and amending the second paragraph so as to read:
The report of a research project shall be on a subject which may be either proposed by the candidate and approved by the Head of the Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience or chosen by the candidate from a list of approved subjects for the two options (A and B) announced by the Head of the Department. Each candidate shall either obtain the approval of the Head of the Department for the subject proposed or notify the Head of the Department of the subject before commencement of work on the project. For each option (A and B), the dates by which lists of approved subjects will be announced and the dates by which the approval of the Head of Department is required shall be announced by the Head of Department not later than the end of the Easter Term in the year preceding the examination. The report shall be submitted to the Examiners not later than the third day of the Full Easter Term in which the examination is to be held.
By deleting the fourth paragraph and amending the third paragraph so as to read:
A candidate who offers a project in the field of Physiology shall submit a report on a subject which may be either proposed by the candidate and approved by the Head of the Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience or chosen by the candidate from a list of approved subjects announced by the Head of the Department by the division of the Michaelmas Term. Each candidate shall either obtain the approval of the Head of the Department for the subject proposed or notify the Head of the Department of the subject chosen from the list not later than the end of the Michaelmas Term. The three copies of the report shall be submitted to the Examiners not later than the third day of the Full Easter Term in which the examination is to be held.