graces

Graces submitted to the Regent House on 5 November 2008

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 These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 14 November 2008.

1. That the regulations for University Composition Fees be amended as follows:¹

TABLE OF FEES

By amending certain entries as follows:

* For 2008-09 the rate of £1,285 (or £640 for Category N) shall apply to home and EU undergraduate student members of the University who started a relevant course before 1 September 2006 or who had deferred entry to the course from an earlier year (continuing students); the rate of £3,225 (or £1,610 for Category N) shall apply to home and EU undergraduate student members of the University who start a relevant course on or after 1 September 2006 and have not deferred entry to the course from an earlier year (students commencing in 2006-07 or later years).

** £640 for clinical medical students following a course under the Revised Regulations for the M.B., B.Chir. Degree, in their final Michaelmas Term.

SCHEDULE

ⁱ The course commences on 1 January each year. The fees proposed are for courses commencing in 2009.

With effect from 1 October 2009

Courses leading to the M.Phil. Degree

By inserting the following entry:

Modern South Asian Studies

D+

D+

E

2. That a Department of Architecture Design Teaching Fund be established in the University to be governed by the following regulations:²

Department of Architecture Design Teaching Fund

1. The moneys donated and covenanted in response to the appeal held by the Department of Architecture shall form a fund to be called the Department of Architecture Design Teaching Fund, the income and that portion of the capital that has not been specified as being permanent capital, shall be used to support the teaching of architectural design in the Department of Architecture.

2. The Managers of the Fund shall be the Head of the Department of Architecture and two other members of the Department appointed by the Faculty Board of Architecture and History of Art for periods of four years at a time.

3. Any unexpended income of the Fund in a financial year may be either added to the capital of the Fund or accumulated for use as income in future years, as the Managers may determine.

4. After provision has been made in accordance with Regulation 1, the income of the Fund shall be applied from time to time, at the discretion of the Managers, to assist in any other way the promotion and encouragement of teaching in architectural design in the University.

3. That a MAVA Fondation Fund for Conservation Leadership be established in the University to be governed by the following regulations:²

MAVA Fondation Fund for Conservation Leadership

1. The sum of £2.5m received by the University from the MAVA Fondation pour la Protection de la Nature Fund shall form a fund called the MAVA Fondation Fund for Conservation Leadership, the income and capital of which shall be used to support postgraduate study in Conservation Leadership and learning and research in Conservation in general. The currency of the Fund shall be eleven years from 1 October 2008 to 30 September 2019.

2. The administration of the Fund shall be under the control of a Committee of Management consisting of:

(a)	the Miriam Rothschild Professor of Conservation Biology;
(b)	the Moran Professor of Conservation and Development;
(c)	the Head of the Department of Geography;
(d)	the person designated as Director of Research in Conservation Leadership;
(e)	one person who is not a resident member of the University appointed by the General Board to represent the Cambridge Conservation Forum.

The member in class (e) shall be appointed by the General Board in the Michaelmas Term to serve for three years from 1 January following her or his appointment.

3. The capital and income of the Fund shall be used to support the design and delivery of a postgraduate course of study in Conservation Leadership, in any manner that the Managers shall determine, including the payment of the stipend, national insurance, pension contributions, and associated indirect costs payable by the University in respect of the Director of Research in Conservation Leadership. It may also be used, at the discretion of the Managers, to provide maintenance payments and payments to meet University and College fees and other costs, such as additional training, equipment, travel expenses, conferences, for students undertaking the course.

4. The MAVA Fondation may decide to apply any part of the capital or income of the donation that remains unspent, at the end of the programme, as the MAVA Fondation may determine, after agreement with the University, to support the study and teaching of conservation in the University and to co-operate with outside bodies in the encouragement of conservation learning or research more generally.

4. That, on the recommendation of the General Board with the concurrence of the Faculty Board of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Regulation 2 for the His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Professorship of Modern Arabic Studies be amended so as to read:³

2. If and whenever the income of the Fund shall exceed the amount required for the payment of the stipend, national insurance, pension contributions, and associated indirect costs of the Professor payable by the University, the excess of the income over that amount shall be applied to support the work of the Professor in such a manner as may be approved by the General Board on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

5. That the recommendations in paragraph 7 of the Report of the Council, dated 6 October 2008, on the Tennant Fund and Studentship and the Hulsean Fund (Reporter, p. 55) be approved.

6. That the recommendations in paragraph 5 of the Report of the General Board, dated 8 October 2008, on the establishment of a Tata Steel Professorship of Metallurgy (Reporter, p. 73) be approved.

¹ Statutes and Ordinances, p. 159. The Council is proposing increases in the rate of fees for home and EU undergraduate students in line with the recent announcement by the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities, and Skills that tuition fees for home and EU undergraduate students who started a relevant course before 1 September 2006 or who had deferred entry to the course from an earlier year will rise to £1,285 for the academical year 2009-10 and that for students who started a relevant course (i.e. one for which the fee category was A to C in the schedule appended to the regulations for University Composition Fees) on 1 September 2006 or later, and who had not deferred entry to the course from an earlier year, the maximum permissible fee for 2009-10 will be £3,225. The Council has also agreed to propose fees for 2009-10 for the Executive M.B.A. course and for certain M.St. courses which have been recommended by the relevant bodies. The opportunity has been taken to introduce an amendment to the Schedule relating to a recent change in postgraduate courses (see the General Board's Notice (Reporter, p. 21)).

² See the Vice-Chancellor's Notice on p. 138.

³ Statutes and Ordinances, p. 700. The proposed amendment to the regulation clarifies that any excess income in the fund is to be used in support of the Professorship; this is consistent with the terms of the original donation.

J. W. NICHOLLS, Registrary

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