The Council submits 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 These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 109), will be deemed to have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, 30 November 2007.
1. (A) That Regulation 1 of the regulations for Board of Examinations be amended as follows:1
By amending class (d) so as to read:
| (d) | four members appointed by the General Board, one of whom shall be a person in statu pupillari appointed on the recommendation of Cambridge University Students Union. |
and by amending the final sentence of the regulation so as to read:
Except for the member in class (d) in statu pupillari, the members in classes (c) and (d) shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term to serve for four years from 1 January following their appointment. The member in class (d) in statu pupillari shall be appointed in the Easter Term to serve for one year from 1 July next following her or his appointment.
(B) That for the period 1 January 2007 to 1 July 2008 the General Board shall appoint the Academic Affairs Officer of the Cambridge Students Union as the member in statu pupillari.
2. That the regulations for entries and lists of candidates for examinations (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 220) be amended as follows:2
1. These regulations shall apply to all Honours Examinations, Preliminary Examinations, and to any other examinations for which written papers are set (except those covered by the regulations for the Ph.D., M.Sc., and M.Litt. Degrees, and for the M.Phil. Degree), and to the examination for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education.
2. In September of each year the Secretary of the Board of Examinations shall circulate to Senior Tutors a Table of Dates giving the dates of the examinations to be held in the following academical year and the dates by which entries of candidates and corrections of those entries are to be submitted.
3. Candidates in statu pupillari shall enrol for the examinations listed in Regulation 11 by entering the details, as approved by each student's Director of Studies, into the University's on-line student record database during the period 1 October to 15 November each year.
4. Entries of candidates in statu pupillari into the examinations listed in Regulations 12-15 shall be signed by the candidates concerned and sent to the Board of Examinations by Senior Tutors of Colleges by the date specified by the Board under those regulations.
5. Any entry of a candidate who proposes to offer less than is required by the regulations for the examination concerned shall, unless the entry has been prescribed by a Degree Committee under the general regulations for admission as a Graduate Student, require the sanction of the Council. The name of any such candidate shall not be included in the class-list for the examination concerned.
6. Entries and corrections shall be deemed to have been sent to the Board of Examinations on the day on which they were received at the Board.
7. If the latest date for the submission of entries or corrections falls on a Saturday or Sunday, they shall be due on the previous Friday. If the day for the issue of a list of candidates falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, the list shall be issued on the previous Friday.
8. For every examination a first list of candidates shall be issued, followed by a final, corrected list. The first list and the final list for each examination shall be sent by the Secretary of the Board of Examinations
| (a) | to the Chairman of Examiners concerned, or, if there is no Chairman, to the senior resident Examiner; |
| (b) | to the Head of the Faculty or the Department concerned or, in the case of Faculties not organized in Departments, to the Secretary of the Faculty Board; |
| (c) | to the Senior Tutor of each College.* |
9. For the examinations specified in Regulations 11-15 the Secretary of the Board of Examinations shall send to Colleges, for transmission to individual candidates, an entry verification form showing the details of each candidate's entry; each candidate shall either sign the form as correct or indicate what amendments of the entry are required, and shall return the form to the Senior Tutor, who shall inform the Secretary of the Board of any amendments required. The Secretary of the Board shall subsequently send to Colleges for each candidate an entry confirmation form giving details of the candidate's entry, the time and place of each written paper for which the candidate is entered, and any identification number allocated to the candidate.
10. The latest dates for the submission of entries and corrections of entries, and for the issue of lists of candidates and of entry verification and confirmation forms, shall be as shown in Regulations 11-15, provided that the Board of Examinations shall have authority to amend those dates in respect of any Tripos, Preliminary, or other examinations held before the division of the Easter Term.
11. For the examinations specified below the procedures shall be as shown in the following table in accordance with Regulation 3:
| Not later than | |
| Entries received via the on-line student record database in the Board of Examinations | 15 November |
| First lists of candidates to be issued | End of third quarter of Michaelmas Term |
| Entry verification forms to be issued | Division of Lent Term |
| Corrections of entries to be sent to Board of Examinations by Colleges | Last day of Full Lent Term |
| Final lists of candidates and entry confirmation forms to be issued | First day of Full Easter Term |
Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos, Parts I and II, and Preliminary Examination for Part I
Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos, Parts I, IIA, and IIB
Architecture Tripos, Parts IA, IB, and II
Chemical Engineering Tripos, Parts I, IIA, and IIB
Classical Tripos, Parts IA, IB, and II, and Preliminary Examinations for Parts IA and II
Computer Science Tripos, Parts IA, IB, II, and II (General)
Computer Science, Diploma in
Economics Tripos, Parts I, IIA, and IIB
Economics, Diploma in
Education Tripos, Parts I and II, and Preliminary Examinations for Parts I and II
Education Studies Tripos, Part II
Education, Postgraduate Certificate in
Engineering Tripos, Parts IA and IB
English Tripos, Parts I and II, and Preliminary Examination for Part II
Geographical Tripos, Parts IA, IB, and II, and Preliminary Examination for Part II
History of Art Tripos, Parts I, IIA, and IIB
Conservation of Easel Paintings, Diploma in
Historical Tripos, Parts I and II, and Preliminary Examinations for Parts I and II
Land Economy Tripos, Parts IA, IB, and II
Law Tripos, Parts IA, IB, and II
Law for European students, Examination in
LL.M. Examination
Linguistics Tripos, and Preliminary Examination
Management Studies Tripos
Manufacturing Engineering Tripos, Parts I and II
Mathematical Tripos, Parts IA, IB, and II
Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos, Parts IA and IB (from these entries, entries for the various Easter Term Second M.B. and Second Veterinary M.B. Examinations are created)
Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, Parts IA, IB, and II
Modern Languages, Diploma and Certificate in
Music Tripos, Parts IA, IB, and II
Mus.B. Examination
Natural Sciences Tripos, Parts IA, IB, II, and III (excluding Astrophysics), and Preliminary Examination for Part II
Oriental Studies Tripos, Part I, and Preliminary Examination for Part I
Philosophy Tripos, Parts IA, IB, and II
Social and Political Sciences Tripos, Parts I, IIA, and IIB
Theological and Religious Studies Tripos, Parts I, IIA, and IIB
Theology and Religious Studies, Diploma in
12. For the examinations specified below the procedures shall be as shown in the following table in accordance with Regulation 4:
| Not later than | |
| Entries received in the Board of Examinations | 15 November |
| First lists of candidates to be issued | End of third quarter Michaelmas Term |
| Entry verification forms to be issued | Division of Lent Term |
| Corrections of entries to be sent to Board of Examinations by Colleges | Last day of Full Lent Term |
| Final lists of candidates and entry confirmation forms to be issued | First day of Full Easter Term |
Oriental Studies Tripos, Part II
Theology for Ministry, First and Second Examination
14. For the examinations specified below the procedures shall be as shown in the following table in accordance with Regulation 4:
| Not later than | |
| Entries received in the Board of Examinations | Eight weeks before the beginning of the examination |
| First lists of candidates and entry verification forms to be issued | Six weeks before the beginning of the examination |
| Corrections of entries to be sent to Board of Examinations by Colleges | Four weeks before the beginning of the examination |
| Final lists of candidates and entry confirmation forms to be issued | Two weeks before the beginning of the examination |
Oral Examinations for Part II of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos
Second M.B. Examination (Lent Term and September examinations)
Second Vet.M.B. Examination (Lent Term and September examinations)
Final M.B. Examination
Final Veterinary Examination
15. For the examinations specified below the procedure for submission of entries (in accordance with Regulation 4) and for the circulation of lists of candidates shall be as shown:
| Not later than | |
| Entries received in the Board of Examinations (names only) | 15 November |
| First lists of candidates to be issued (names only) | End of the third quarter of Michaelmas Term |
| Entries received from the Secretary of the Faculty Board (details) | End of the sixth week of Full Lent Term |
| Final lists of candidates and entry confirmation forms issued | Beginning of the last week of Full Lent Term |
Engineering Tripos, Parts IIA and IIB
16. For the examinations specified below the procedure for submission of entries (in accordance with Regulation 4) and for the circulation of lists of candidates shall be as shown:
| Not later than | |
| Entries received in the Board of Examinations (names only) | 15 November |
| First list of candidates to be issued (names only) | End of the third quarter of Michaelmas Term |
| Entries received in the Board of Examinations from the Secretary of the Faculty Board (details) | End of second week of Full Easter Term |
| Final lists of candidates and entry confirmation forms to be issued | Beginning of the third week of Full Easter Term |
Mathematical Tripos, Part III
Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III, Astrophysics
16. No alteration of an entry, other than a withdrawal of it, and no additional entry shall be accepted after the latest date specified for the submission of corrections.
17. In accordance with the general regulations for admission as a Graduate Student, the Examiners for any Tripos or for the LL.M. Examination shall have power at the request of a Degree Committee to arrange for the examination of Graduate Students and to report the result of such examination direct to the Secretary of the Degree Committee. The names of such students shall not appear in any class-list.
18. No student shall be admitted to an examination leading to the degree of M.Phil., M.B., B.Chir., LL.M., B.A., Mus.B., or Vet.M.B., except in the case of a student holding a degree of another university, the Second M.B. Examination, unless (a) the student has satisfied, or has been deemed by the Matriculation Board to have satisfied, the examination requirements for matriculation or (b) the student belongs to one of the classes of persons whom the Council have approved as qualified for matriculation.
* For the examinations specified in Regulations 11-15 the lists shall be divided by College, and the list sent to each College shall comprise the members of that College who are entered for the examination in question.
3. That on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Engineering the regulations for the Archibald Denny Prize be amended so as to read:3
1. Two Archibald Denny Prizes shall be awarded each year, one by the Examiners for Part IIA of the Engineering Tripos and one by the Examiners for Part IIB of that Tripos, to the candidates for those Parts who have shown the greatest distinction in the Theory of Structures.
2. The value of each Prize shall be such sum not exceeding half the available income of the Archibald Denny Fund as may be determined from time to time by the Faculty Board of Engineering with the approval of the Council.
3. The University, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Engineering, may amend these regulations from time to time, provided that the Prizes shall always be called the Archibald Denny Prizes and shall always be devoted to the encouragement of the study of the Theory of Structures.
4. That Regulations 2 and 3 for the Leslie Stephen Lectureship be amended so as to read:4
2. The Lecturer shall be elected in the Michaelmas Term of every year of which the number is even by the Vice-Chancellor (or a duly appointed deputy), the Master of Trinity Hall, the Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, the Regius Professor of Modern History, and the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature.
3. It shall be the duty of the Lecturer to deliver one lecture on some day in Full Term within two calendar years of her or his election. The lecture shall be delivered in the Senate-House or in some other University building or in Trinity Hall.
5. That the recommendations in paragraph 9 of the Joint Report of the Council and the General Board, dated 18 and 6 June 2007, on the introduction of a part-time route to the degree of Master of Philosophy (Reporter, 2006-07, p. 797), as amended by the Council's Notice, dated 19 November 2007 (p. 258), be approved.
1 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 123. In common with other central bodies the Board wish to make arrangements for student representation. In order to include a member in statu pupillari, the number of members appointed by the General Board in class (d) has been increased from three to four.
2 The regulations have been amended to take account of current procedures which were revised following the introduction of the student information system. This system allows students to enter their examination details for most Tripos and Diploma examinations online. The deadlines for submission of entries and corrections to those entries have in consequence been revised for certain examinations.
3 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 752. The Faculty Board of Engineering have recommended that a Prize should be awarded in both Part IIB and IIA of the Engineering Tripos.
4 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 880. The Electors to the Lectureship have recommended that the regulations for the Lectureship be amended to include the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature as an Elector and to extend the period in which the Lecturer may deliver the Lecture.