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No 6196

Wednesday 21 July 2010

Vol cxl No 37

pp. 1101–1188

Notices By The General Board

Centre for Business Research (CBR): Notice

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Committee of Management of the Centre for Business Research, the Faculty Board of Business and Management, and the Council of the School of Technology, have agreed to incorporate the Centre for Business Research within the Judge Business School with effect from 1 August 2010.

The regulations for the Centre for Business Research (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 628) have accordingly been amended with effect from 1 August 2010, as set out below:

Centre for Business Research

Management

1. The Centre for Business Research shall be an interdisciplinary research institute within the Judge Business School and shall be under the general control of a Committee of Management, which shall consist of:

(a)the Director;

(b)the Assistant Directors;

(c)one person appointed by the General Board, who shall be Chairman;

(d)the Executive Director of Research in the Faculty of Economics, the Director of Judge Business School, the Heads of the Departments of Geography and Land Economy, and the Chairmen of the Faculty Boards of Economics, Engineering, Law, and Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies, or in each case the elected representative of the Board;

(e)not more than two persons co-opted at the discretion of the Committee.

2. The member in class (c) shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term to serve for four years from 1 January following her or his appointment. Members in class (e) shall serve until 31 December of the year in which they are co-opted or of the following year, as the Committee shall determine at the time of their co-optation.

3. The Committee shall appoint annually one of their number to act as Secretary.

4. The Committee shall meet at least once in each year. Five members present at a meeting shall constitute a quorum.

5. The duties of the Committee shall be as follows:

(a)to promote business research and the dissemination of the results of such research;

(b)to co-operate with outside bodies in the encouragement of business research;

(c)to administer funds allocated to them for the purposes specified in (a) and (b) above;

(d)to supervise the work of the staff of the Centre;

(e)to make an Annual Report to the Director of Judge Business School.

6. The Committee shall prepare annual estimates for submission to the Director of Judge Business School.

7. There shall be an Executive Committee, consisting of the Director, who shall be Chairman, and the Assistant Directors. The Committee shall advise the Director on matters concerning the staffing, resources, and administration of the Centre, including the setting and revision of project budgets. The Committee may co-opt not more than three additional members to serve for such periods as they think fit.

8. The Executive Committee shall meet at least once each term.

9. There shall be an Advisory Board consisting of:

(a)the Director;

(b)two of the Assistant Directors elected by the Executive Committee;

(c)at least twelve persons appointed by the General Board on the recommendation of the Director.

Members in classes (b) and (c) shall be elected or appointed in the Michaelmas Term to serve for four years from 1 January following their election or appointment. A member in classes (b) and (c) shall at the end of that period be eligible for re-election or reappointment, respectively, for one further period of four years, provided that the General Board may exceptionally allow a member to be eligible for a second further period of four years, after which two years shall elapse before he or she shall again be eligible for re-election or reappointment. The members in class (c) shall include at least nine persons who are not resident members of the University.

The General Board shall have power, after consulting the Director, to appoint two persons to attend meetings of the Advisory Board as observers.

10. The duties of the Advisory Board shall be:

(a)to advise the Director on lines of business research, their financial implications, and potential sources of funding for such research;

(b)to assist the Director in co-operation with outside bodies in furthering the Centre’s programme of research;

(c)to receive reports of research conducted within the Centre and an annual statement of the Centre’s financial position.

11. The Advisory Board shall elect one of their number, other than the Director, to act as Chairman each year, and a Secretary. The Board shall meet at least twice in each year.

Staff of the Centre

1. There shall be a University office of Director of the Centre which may be held concurrently with another University office.

2. The Director of the Centre shall be appointed by the General Board on the recommendation of the Committee of Management of the Centre for Business Research. If held concurrently with another University office, appointments and reappointments to the office of Director shall be for such periods not exceeding five years at a time as the General Board may determine.

3. Under the general control of the Committee of Management, the Director shall be the administrative Head of the Centre and shall be responsible for the direction of research in the Centre.

4. There shall be such number of University offices of Assistant Director of the Centre as the General Board may from time to time determine. The office of Assistant Director may be held concurrently with another University office.

5. If held concurrently with another University office, appointments and reappointments to a University office of Assistant Director of the Centre shall be made by the Committee of Management, subject to the approval of the General Board, and shall be for such periods as shall be determined by the General Board on the recommendation of the Committee.

6. The Assistant Directors shall be responsible to the Director for:

(a)the development and efficient conduct of groups of research projects allocated to them by the Director;

(b)the provision of annual progress reports to the Director on their groups of research projects.

7. During any absence of the Director, or when the office of Director is vacant, the General Board may, on the recommendation of the Committee of Management, appoint one of the Assistant Directors as Acting Director on such terms and conditions as the Board may determine.

8. There shall be such number of Junior Research Fellowships, Research Fellowships, and Senior Research Fellowships as shall be determined from time to time by the Committee of Management on the recommendation of the Director. Such Fellowships may be held concurrently with another University office.

Visiting Fellowships

1. In order to enable scholars from outside Cambridge to take part in and contribute to the work of the Centre there shall be Visiting Fellowships for persons who have made or are making important contributions to business research, or who are pursuing advanced work in the subject.

2. Appointments and reappointments to Visiting Fellowships shall be made by the Director of the Centre for periods not exceeding one year at a time.

3. The stipend, if any, of a Visiting Fellow shall be determined by the Director with the approval of the General Board on the occasion of each appointment or reappointment.

Research Affiliates

The Director may from time to time grant the status of Research Affiliate to persons (other than the salaried research staff of the Centre) who contribute to the Centre’s work.

Sir Thomas Adams’s Professorship of Arabic: Notice

The General Board have received a recommendation from the Faculty Board of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and the Council of the School of Arts and Humanities that the Sir Thomas Adams’s Professorship of Arabic be temporarily discontinued from 1 October 2009 in accordance with Statute D, XV, 18(a)(ii).

The Council has agreed to submit a Grace to the Regent House (Grace 5, p. 1152) to discontinue the Professorship temporarily from this date.

Stipends of the holders of clinical academic offices and payment for clinical responsibility: Notice

Agreement has now been reached on increases in clinical salaries for 2010. Following a recent meeting of the Board of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association, the Clinical Academic Staff Salaries Committee have agreed to translate the recent award of the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Review Body into the salaries of clinical academic staff. The increase, from 1 April 2010, is 1% on the scale points for clinical lecturers. There is no change to salaries on the consultant scale and rates remain those set out in 2009 (Reporter, 2008–09, p. 968).

In accordance with the principle that the remuneration of clinical academic staff in Cambridge should be broadly comparable with that of equivalent staff in other UK medical schools, the General Board have agreed to approve revised stipends and scales of stipends for clinical appointments in Cambridge. The figures currently shown in Schedule II to the regulations for stipends (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 673) which apply to existing staff on the Clinical Lecturer scale are replaced, with effect from 1 April 2010, by the following figures:

Clinical Lecturer

£30,992 by ten increments to £53,663

In line with changes to the NHS scales for Specialty Registrars the scale for new staff appointed to the Clinical Lecturer scale from 1 April 2010 will be:

Clinical Lecturer

£31,523 by ten increments to £55,754

The offices of Associate Dean in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine, Director and Assistant Director of Studies in General Practice are part-time and stipends are determined by local agreement, with reference to the appropriate full-time consultant salary.

Use of the University Library: Notice

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 646)

On the recommendation of the Library Syndicate the General Board have approved amendments to the regulations for the use of the University Library to change the date of the annual inspection and to allow all undergraduates and persons following accredited courses in the Institute of Continuing Education to borrow books. The reference to Homerton College in Regulation 5(3) has been removed as it is now a full College of the University. The regulations have been amended as follows:

With immediate effect

Regulation 3.

By amending the regulation so as to read:

3. The Library shall be closed for the second full week (Monday to Saturday) of September, for the purpose of an annual inspection and the preparation of lists of missing books. No books shall be taken out of the Library during this period.

Regulation 5(1).

By amending the footnote attached to the first sentence so as to read:

2 For the purposes of this regulation the term ‘diploma or certificate of the University’ does not apply to certificates of proficiency awarded by the Language Centre or to certificates and diplomas open to non-members of the University, except for those administered by the Institute of Continuing Education.

With effect from 1 October 2010

Regulation 5(3).

By amending the regulation so as to read:

(3) Not more than five volumes may be borrowed by (a) undergraduates, and (b) Affiliated Students.