Notices

Calendar

3 December, Friday. Full Term ends.

7 December, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House (see below).

19 December, Sunday. Michaelmas Term ends.

5 January, Wednesday. Lent Term begins.

12 January, Wednesday. First ordinary number of the Reporter in the Lent Term.

18 January, Tuesday. Full Term begins.

Notice of a Discussion on Tuesday, 7 December 2010

The Vice-Chancellor invites those qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107) to attend a Discussion in the Senate-House, on Tuesday, 7 December 2010, at 2 p.m., for the discussion of:

1. Report of the Council on membership of the Regent House (age limit) (Reporter, 2010–11, pp. 187–88).

2. Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on the introduction of a degree of Master of Corporate Law (the M.C.L.) (Reporter, 2010–11, pp. 189–92).

3. Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on the future of Ordinary Examinations and the Ordinary B.A. Degree (Reporter, 2010–11, pp. 208–10).

Notice of a benefaction

22 November 2010

The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that he has received an anonymous benefaction of up to £250,000, payable over a period of ten years, which is to be used for the promotion and encouragement of the study of Philosophy in the University.

The Council is submitting a Grace (Grace 1, p. 278) for the approval of regulations to govern the use of the benefaction, as agreed with the benefactor, to allow for at least one Crausaz Wordsworth Studentship and one Timothy Joyce Studentship each year tenable by Graduate Students in the Faculty of Philosophy.

Election to the Council: Notice

25 November 2010

The Vice-Chancellor announces the following result of the poll and of the transfer of votes under the Single Transferable Vote Regulations:

In class (b)

Elected from 1 January 2011 until 31 December 2014: Professor N. J. Gay, CHR and Professor A. Hopper, CC

Number of valid votes cast: 1,011 (Quota: 337)

	First count	Transfer of Prof. Gray’s votes (by lot)	Second count	Transfer of Dr Burgoyne’s votes	Third count	Transfer of Dr Clark’s votes	Fourth count	Result
Dr Burgoyne	156	+11	167	–167	0
Dr Clark	169	+13	182	+13	195	–195	0
Professor Gay	158	+27	185	+36	221	+97	318	Second elected
Professor Gray	156	–156	0
Professor Hopper	204	+30	234	+52	286	+38	324	First elected
Professor Maskell	168	+24	192	+25	217	+19	236
Non-transferable		+51	51	+41	92	+41	133
Total	1,011		1,011		1,011		1,011

In class (c)

Elected from 1 January 2011 until 31 December 2014: Dr N. Bampos, TH, Dr S. J. Cowley, SE, Mr I. M. L. M. Du Quesnay, N, and Dr S. M. Oosthuizen, W

Number of valid votes cast: 1,012 (Quota: 203)

Election to the Board of Scrutiny: Notice

25 November 2010

The Vice-Chancellor announces the following result of the poll under the Single Transferable Vote Regulations:

Class (c)(ii) (members of the Regent House chosen without limit of age)

Elected to serve until 30 September 2011:

Number of valid votes cast: 917 (Number of places: 1) (Quota: 459)

	First count	Result
Mr M. B. Beckles	192
Dr M. M. Chaudhri	218
Mr P. C. Warren	507	Elected
Non-transferable	–
Total	917

Deputy Chairman of the Council and Chairman of the Audit Committee: Notice

22 November 2010

Deputy Chairman of the Council

The Council has agreed to appoint Dame Mavis McDonald as Deputy Chairman of the Council for two years from 1 January 2011 to succeed Lord Simon.

Chairman of the Audit Committee

By Grace 5 of 20 October 2010, Mr John Shakeshaft was appointed as a member of the Council in class (e) (external member) from 1 January 2011. The Council has agreed to appoint him as Chairman of the Audit Committee to succeed Mr Nigel Brown OBE. Mr Shakeshaft is currently a member of the Audit Committee in class (c) and will have served for more than eight years consecutively, the maximum allowable under the regulations for the Committee. The Council is accordingly submitting a Grace (Grace 2, p. 279) to the Regent House seeking approval of the appointment of Mr Shakeshaft as Chairman for three years from 1 January 2011.

Finance Committee of the University Council: Member elected: Notice

23 November 2010

The following nomination has been received for a member of the Finance Committee to be elected by the representatives of the Colleges to serve from 1 January 2011:

Mr Simon Summers, CTH, nominated by Dr S. E. Lintott, DOW, and Mr N. J. A. Downer, SE. Mr Summers has consented to nomination pursuant to the regulation.

As only one nomination has been received, Mr Summers is elected.

USS consultation – proposed consultative voting: Notice

The Council has agreed that consultative voting should take place immediately on the proposals submitted by 152 members of the Regent House under Statute A, VIII, 7 (see Reporter, p. 200). Voting papers and accompanying booklets will be distributed through the University Messenger Service to affected members of the USS employed by the University and affiliated institutions on or before Tuesday, 7 December. The last date for return of voting papers will be 5 p.m. on Monday, 20 December 2010. The result will be announced on the Senate-House noticeboard and on the University’s pensions website (http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/pensions/uss/) as soon as possible after the deadline for return.

It is important to be aware that the formal method for an affected person to express a view is individually during the consultation period now underway; the employer (the University in this case) does not have a formal entitlement to express a view in the consultation period. The proposed voting is not, therefore, a substitute for the individual expression of opinion before the closing date of the USS consultation (22 December 2010).

Members of USS who have already made a submission to USS via the consultation website, but now wish to provide supplementary comments, may send such comments in writing to Mrs Sue Curryer, the Head of Pensions Administration, Pensions Office, 10 Peas Hill, Cambridge, CB2 3PN (email sec28@admin.cam.ac.uk). These will then be forwarded to USS at the end of the consultation period.