The Board of Graduate Studies and the General Board have recently received a proposal for differential fees to be paid for taught M.Phil. courses in Judge Business School. In their Joint Report on University Composition Fee rates for the M.Phil. Degree and certain other postgraduate qualifications (Reporter, 2004-05, p. 516) the Council and the General Board set out the requirements to be met before any proposals could be submitted to the Regent House for approval (para. 9):
9. The central bodies intend, in the event that this Report is approved, that institutions seeking to charge a differential fee should be required to make a case for consideration by representatives of the Council of the relevant School, the Board of Graduate Studies (where the course requires registration as a Graduate Student), and the central bodies. The case must be made in advance of the annual admissions cycle so that applicants have clear information about course costs. The case will need to demonstrate that the proposed fee level will reflect actual course costs but will continue to allow for the admission of those most academically qualified. In instances where studentship providers (including the Research Councils, the Colleges, and the Cambridge Trusts) expect to pay the University Composition Fee at the standard rate, the institutions will need to demonstrate how the difference between the two rates will be met through scholarship or bursary schemes. The central bodies will pay particular attention, before promoting the necessary Grace, to ensuring that admissions standards will not be compromised and that the institution has in place particularly effective quality assurance procedures so that student expectations of the quality of the programme can be properly met.
The recommendations in the Joint Report were approved by the University by Grace 7 of 20 April 2005.
The Faculty Board of Business and Management have submitted a proposal that, from 1 September 2008, the fees for the courses in Management and in Technology Policy for the M.Phil. Degree for home and EU students should be the same as for overseas students, that is £12,219.
The Faculty Board of Business and Management have submitted a proposal that, from 1 September 2008, the fee for the course in Finance for the M.Phil. Degree for home and EU students should be that of Category P (£7,000 at 2007-08 rates).
These proposals have been scrutinized by the Council of the School of Technology, the Board of Graduate Studies, and the General Board who have recommended to the Council that the Faculty Board have met the requirements of the Joint Report.
The Council is accordingly submitting a Grace to the Regent House (Grace 1, p. 360) for the approval of the changes to the Table of Fees which result from the proposals in this Notice, together with certain other necessary changes.