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No 6187

Thursday 6 May 2010

Vol cxl No 28

pp. 789–812

Regulations For Examinations

The General Board give notice that, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board or other authority concerned, the regulations for certain University examinations have been amended as follows:

Economics Tripos, Part IIb

SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 302)

With effect from 1 October 2010

Part IIb

The Faculty Board of Economics give notice of an amendment to the subjects available for Paper 17 (A subject in the field of sociology and politics). The supplementary regulation has been amended so as to read:

Paper 17. A subject in the field of sociology and politics

Until further notice the subjects specified for this paper, from which candidates are required to select one, will be

(a)An interdisciplinary subject III (Paper Int. 5 of the Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos),

(b)The sociology and politics of South Asia (Paper Int. 8 of the Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos),

(c)Society, politics, and culture in Latin America (Paper Int. 7 of the Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos),

(d)A subject in sociology IV (Paper Soc. 7 of the Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos in any year that the subject of that paper is ‘The political economy of capitalism’),

(e)An interdisciplinary subject IV (Paper Int. 9 of the Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos).

Examination in Biological Science for the degree of Master of Philosophy

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 503)

The General Board and the Board of Graduate Studies have approved a proposal from the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Biology that the course of study in Biological Science (Option A) for the M.Phil. Degree be made available to part-time candidates with immediate effect.

The Board of Graduate Studies are satisfied that suitable arrangements are in place to enable part-time students to have sufficient access to teaching and other resources. The Board are also satisfied that the part-time course is comparable to the full-time version in content, intended learning outcomes, the teaching and other resources available, and forms of assessment. The Council of the School of the Biological Sciences has confirmed that the proposal is consistent with the School’s strategic plans, both in respect of the objectives of the School and in terms of any implications for student numbers. The special regulation for the examination in Biological Science for the degree of Master of Philosophy has accordingly been amended as follows:

Biological Science

With immediate effect

By amending the first three lines of the regulation so as to read:

The scheme of examination for the course of study in Biological Science for the degree of Master of Philosophy shall consist, according to the programme followed by the candidate, of either Option A or Option B as follows:

and by inserting after the heading ‘Option A’ the words (one-year full-time or two-year part-time course) and after the heading ‘Option B’ the words (one-year full-time course).

With effect from 1 October 2010

(By Notice in the Reporter of 27 January 2010 (p. 504) the special regulation for the examination in Biological Science for the degree of Master of Philosophy was amended so that Option A became the M.Phil. course, while Option B was converted to a course for the M.Res. Degree.)

The regulation for the course for the M.Phil. Degree has been amended by replacing in the first line of the regulation the words:

‘The scheme of examination for the one-year course of study in Biological Science’

by the words

‘The scheme of examination for the one-year full-time or two-year part-time course of study in Biological Science’