No 6235
Wednesday 3 August 2011
Vol cxli No 39
pp. 1141–1156
6 September, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House (see below).
12 September, Monday. Library closes.
19 September, Monday. Library re-opens.
28 September, Wednesday. First ordinary number of the Reporter in the academical year 2011–12.
1 October, Saturday. Michaelmas Term begins. Congregation of the Regent House at 9.30 a.m.: Vice-Chancellor’s Address, Election and Admission of the Proctors, and Admission to Degrees in absentia (see p. 1110).
4 October, Tuesday. Full Term begins.
11 October, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House (see below).
This issue is the final ordinary issue for the 2010–11 academic year, and the final issue to be printed and made available for subscription and purchase by the University Press. In 2011–12, the Reporter will be available online only; a print-ready PDF will be provided, to be downloaded and printed if required (see also the Notice on p. 1156).
The Vice-Chancellor invites those qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107) to attend a special Discussion in the Senate-House, on Tuesday, 6 September 2011, at 2 p.m., to conclude consultation on the Government’s Higher Education White Paper (Reporter, 2010–11, p. 978).
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, 11 October 2011, at 2 p.m., for the discussion of:
1. Report of the Council, dated 27 June 2011, on the construction of Phase 1 of the University Sports Centre on the West Cambridge Site (Reporter, 2010–11, p. 994)
2. Report of the General Board, dated 6 July 2011, on the establishment of a Professorship of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine (Reporter, 2010–11, p. 997)
3. Report of the General Board, dated 6 July 2011, on the re-establishment of the Charles Darwin Professorship of Animal Embryology (Reporter, 2010–11, p. 998)
4. Report of the Board of Graduate Studies, dated 7 June 2011, on future arrangements for central consideration of Graduate Student matters (Reporter, 2010–11, p. 998)
5. Sixteenth Report of the Board of Scrutiny, dated 24 June 2011 (Reporter, 2010–11, p. 1061).
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that he has received with gratitude a generous benefaction of £500,000 from the John and Lucille van Geest Foundation, a charitable foundation, to support teaching and research in the School of Clinical Medicine, with a preference for brain repair and neuroscience.
The Council are submitting a Grace to the Regent House (Grace 1, p. 1151) for the approval of regulations to govern the benefaction.
The Council, at its meeting on 18 July, received the report of the committee undertaking a review of Cambridge Enterprise (see Reporter, p. 169) and the comments of the Finance Committee on the report and its recommendations. It has agreed that the report should be published on the Council website as soon as possible (http://raven.intranet.admin.cam.ac.uk/committee/council/default.aspx), together with the Finance Committee’s comments, for the information of the University.
The Council wishes to record its recognition and appreciation of the achievements of Cambridge Enterprise, under the leadership of Ms T. Willey, over the past five years.
The KPMG Professorship of Management Studies was established in the Department of Engineering by Grace 1 of 22 May1985 as the Peat, Marwick, and Mitchell Professorship of Management Studies following an offer by Peat, Marwick, and Mitchell & Co to donate £750,000 over ten years to establish the Professorship. It was reassigned to the Judge Institute of Management Studies in 1994 and the title of the Professorship was amended in 1996 to reflect subsequent changes to the company’s identity.
The income available from the Fund is no longer sufficient to pay the full cost of the stipend of the Professorship and, as it has not been possible to re-capitalize the Fund, KPMG has agreed to a proposal by the Faculty of Business and Management to amend the purpose of the original donation to allow spending of the capital and for the fund to be wound down after the retirement of the current holder of the Professorship, Professor Dame Sandra Dawson, in 2013.
The Council and the General Board have agreed that the regulations for the Professorship should therefore be amended with effect from 1 October 2011. The Council is submitting a Grace (Grace 2, p. 1152) to the Regent House proposing revised regulations.
Under the provisions of Statute D, XV, 17, the General Board will consider whether the Professorship should be continued or terminated when the tenure of the current holder ceases.