Graces

Graces submitted to the Regent House on 8 June 2011

The Council submits the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, unless they are withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107), will be deemed to have been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, 17 June 2011.

1. That the University’s Equal Opportunities Policy (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 150) be replaced by the Policy set out in the Council’s Notice, dated 6 June 2011 (p. 902), and that the separate Disability, Gender, Race, and Religion and Belief Policies (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 151) be rescinded.1

2. That the Table of Fees attached to the regulations for University Composition Fees (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 161) be amended with reference to Channel Islands and Isle of Man students as follows:2

Table 1A

B.A. Degree (students commencing in 2006–07 or later years), B.Th. Degree, Mus.B. Degree, Medical and Veterinary Degrees, M.Eng. Degree and M.Sci. Degree, M.Math. Degree, and M.A.St. Degree, Certificates, and Diplomas (in Group 1)

By replacing, at each occurrence in the list of fees for Channel Islands and Isle of Man students, the figures in the first column with the figures in the second column:

Annual fees for 2010–11 (£)	Annual fees for 2011–12 (£)
6,574	6,194
8,268	7,768
10,529	9,867
1,640	3,097
23,523	21,938

Table 2A: Continuing students

By replacing, at each occurrence in the list of fees for Channel Islands and Isle of Man students, the figures in the first column with the figures in the second column:

Annual fees for 2010–11 (£)	Annual fees for 2011–12 (£)
5,275	4,899
6,857	6,369
8,967	8,329
650	2,450
21,098	19,598

3. That the regulations for Allowances to candidates for Examinations, as amended by Grace 5 of 15 December 2010, be further amended, with effect from 1 October 2011, as follows:3

Regulation 3(a).

By inserting a new subsection (iv) so as to read:

or(iv)to put the candidate in standing to proceed as a candidate for another examination, where the candidate would not otherwise be of such standing.

Regulation 5.

By renumbering the regulation as 6 and inserting a new Regulation 5 so as to read:

5. The Council shall not, save in exceptional circumstances, normally make an allowance to a candidate for the B.A. Degree of an examination under Regulation 3 on more than one occasion, save that, for the purpose of this regulation, an allowance under Regulation 3(a)(i) shall not be regarded as such an allowance.

Regulation 6.

By renumbering the regulation as 7 and amending the regulation so as to read:

7. Where the regulations for an Honours Examination or for a Preliminary Examination provide for a candidate to submit by a specified date a dissertation, thesis, or essay, either in addition to the written papers or in substitution for one or more of them, the Chairman of Examiners or the Senior Examiner may on the application of the candidate’s Tutor grant a brief extension to a specified date by which the work shall be submitted. A dissertation, thesis, or essay submitted later than the date specified by the Chairman of Examiners or the Senior Examiner, or in the regulation concerned if no extension has been granted, shall not be accepted.

Regulation 7.

By renumbering the regulation as 8 and deleting from line 2 of the regulation the words ‘at the request of the candidate’.

4. That Regulation 1 for the School of Arts and Humanities (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 572) be amended by adding the Language Centre to the list of institutions comprising the School.4

5. That, on the recommendation of the General Board, the Professorship of Veterinary Clinical Studies be retitled the Professorship of Comparative Oncology and Genetics.5