No 6278
Wednesday 26 September 2012
Vol cxliii No 1
pp. 1–13
1 October, Monday. Michaelmas Term begins. Congregation of the Regent House at 9.30 a.m.: Vice-Chancellor’s Address, and Election and Admission of the Proctors.
2 October, Tuesday. Full Term begins. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House (see below).
9 October, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House (see below).
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Congregations |
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2 October |
1 October, Monday at 9.30 a.m. |
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9 October |
20 October, Saturday at 11 a.m. |
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23 October |
24 November, Saturday at 2 p.m. |
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6 November |
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20 November |
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4 December |
The Vice-Chancellor invites those qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, 2011, p. 107) to attend a Discussion in the Senate-House, on Tuesday, 2 October 2012, at 2 p.m., to discuss the Report of the Council, dated 18 June 2012, on the Technical Review of the Statutes (Reporter, 2011–12, p. 746).
The Vice-Chancellor invites those qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, 2011, p. 107) to attend a Discussion in the Senate-House, on Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 2 p.m., for the discussion of:
1. First-stage Report of the Council, dated 30 June 2012, on the restructuring and rationalization of hospital facilities for the Department of Veterinary Medicine at West Cambridge (Reporter, 2011–12, p. 760).
2. First-stage Report of the Council, dated 30 June 2012, on the construction of a new building for the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at West Cambridge (Reporter, 2011–12, p. 761).
3. First-stage Report of the Council, dated 16 July 2012, on the construction of a Data Centre on the West Cambridge site (Reporter, 2011–12, p. 811).
4. Report of the General Board, dated 11 July 2012, on the establishment of a Professorship of Empirical Macroeconomics (Reporter, 2011–12, p. 812).
5. Report of the General Board, dated 11 July 2012, on the establishment of a Harold Samuel Professorship of Law and Environmental Policy (Reporter, 2011–12, p. 814).
6. Report of the General Board, dated 11 July 2012, on the re-establishment of a Professorship of Stroke Medicine (Reporter, 2011–12, p. 814).
7. Seventeenth Report of the Board of Scrutiny, dated 27 June 2012 (Reporter, 2011–12, p. 815).
1. Elections from the undergraduate and graduate student bodies to the Council and the General Board have hitherto been run as separate electoral processes to those for the Student Union (CUSU and GU) sabbatical offices.
2. The Joint Report by the Council and the General Board on student membership of the two bodies, dated 11 and 23 January 2012 (Reporter, 2011–12, p. 405), proposed that, from Lent Term 2013, elections from the student bodies to the Council and the General Board should be combined with elections to the Student Union sabbatical offices. The Report recommended that:
(i)for two of the three student positions on the Council, candidates for election to the CUSU or GU President posts should stand simultaneously for election to the Council, meaning that the successful candidate will become both CUSU or GU President and a member of the Council. However, it will be made clear on the electoral paperwork (including the ballot paper) that in electing a President one is electing separately a member of the Council who, in that capacity, is not acting as a mandated representative of the Union that he or she will also lead. For the third student position on the Council the election should be by and from all University students and need not be connected electorally to a Union office;
(ii)the two student positions on the General Board should be filled automatically by the successful candidates for election to the sabbatical CUSU Education Officer and GU President posts.
The recommendations of the Joint Report were approved by Grace 10 of 15 February 2012 (see Reporter, 2011–12, p. 459). The Council and the General Board, on the recommendation of the Council Committee for the Supervision of the Student Unions (CCSSU), now propose further necessary amendments to the Regulations for the Election of Members of the Council and the General Board, respectively, in class (d) (Statutes and Ordinances, 2011, pp. 114 and 117) as set out in the Annexes below.
3. Paragraph 10 of the Joint Report proposed that the powers of electoral scrutiny and supervision should be carried out by the CCSSU to complement its role as scrutineer, on behalf of the Council, of the electoral arrangements for CUSU and GU sabbatical offices carried out under the Code of Practice in Respect of Student Unions issued under Section 22 of the Education Act 1994. The Committee has proposed that the normal timetable for such scrutiny is aligned with its current arrangements in place for the CUSU and GU elections to sabbatical offices. In advance of the routine functioning of this activity, however, CCSSU has made some initial recommendations to harmonize the dissimilar elements of the current separate electoral processes.
4. There are a number of differences between the three processes. The main issues that affect the wording or interpretation of the Regulations are set out below.
(a) Electoral rolls
Current situation: Copies of the electoral rolls for the University student elections are currently sent to the Colleges and made available in the University Registry for inspection.
Recommendation: CCSSU recommends that copies of the electoral rolls for the University student elections should be made available online only.
(b) Nominations process
Current situation: Different numbers of nominating countersignatories (from zero to eight) are required for the University student elections, the CUSU elections, and the GU elections.
Recommendation: CCSSU recommends that no nominating countersignatories should be required for any of the student elections, noting that the small number of countersignatories required for the current electoral processes render the requirement of questionable utility.
(c) Campaigning rules and complaints procedures
Current situation: Detailed rules on campaigning and handling complaints about electoral misconduct are in place for the CUSU elections and (separately) the GU elections; this has no counterpart in the University student elections.
Recommendation: CCSSU recommends that CUSU’s rules on campaigning and handling complaints about electoral misconduct should be adopted as standard across all student elections and should continue to be scrutinized and approved by CCSSU on an annual basis.
(d) Returning Officer
Current situation: The Returning Officer is the Vice-Chancellor (or, in practice, her or his nominated deputy) for the University student elections, and the relevant President (unless he or she is standing as a candidate) for the Student Union elections.
Recommendation: CCSSU recommends that the existing arrangements for the appointment of Returning Officers for the Student Union elections to sabbatical offices should remain in place and that the Vice-Chancellor annually should nominate a University Officer to act as an official electoral ‘Observer’.
5. The Council has agreed to accept the Committee’s recommendations and is putting forward amendments to the Regulations for the Election of Members of the Council in class (d) (Statutes and Ordinances, 2011, p. 114) as set out in Annex 1 below. These amendments are in addition to those set out in the Joint Report and adopt the numbering of the revised regulations.
6. The General Board has recommended that the Regulations for the Election of Student Members of the General Board (Statutes and Ordinances, 2011, p. 117) be amended for clarity as set out in Annex 2 below. The Board has also set out Rules under the amended Regulations in the Appendix below.
7. The Council is accordingly submitting a Grace (Grace 1, p. 11) to the Regent House for the approval of the amendments to the Regulations set out in Annexes 1 and 2. The Council also gives notice that it is amending its Rules made in accordance with Regulation 13 for the Election of Members of the Council (Statutes and Ordinances, 2011, p. 115) as set out in the Appendix below.
Regulations as amended by the Joint Report and the current proposals for amendments to (new) Regulations 9 and 10 are provided below.
6. The members of the Council in class (d) shall be in two categories as follows:
(i)two students elected by and from among all the students in the University,
(ii)one graduate student elected by and from among all the graduate students in the University.
Members in class (d) shall serve for one year from 1 July next following the election.
7. The annual election of members in class (d) shall be held in Full Lent Term. The date and place or places of the election, the last date for the receipt of nominations, and the procedures for voting shall be determined by the Vice-Chancellor, subject to any conditions approved by the Council; provided that the last date for the receipt of nominations shall be not later than the seventh day of Full Term before the day appointed for the election.
8. Not later than thirty-five days of term before the date appointed for the election, the Vice-Chancellor shall give public notice of the date appointed for the election and the final date for the receipt of nominations.
9. Not later than twenty-eight days of term before the date appointed for the election, the Registrary shall make public electoral rolls of all the persons who on the preceding 31 October were eligible, under the provisions of Statute A, IV and of these regulations and of the rules made under these regulations to vote and to stand as candidates in the election of members in categories (i) and (ii) of class (d). Any person may within seven days of the publication of the rolls send to the Registrary a written objection to the inclusion of any name in, or the omission of any name from, either roll. The decision of the Registrary on any such objection shall be final. Unless otherwise determined by the Vice-Chancellor, the electoral rolls or, if amended by the Registrary, the electoral rolls so amended, shall be the rolls for any election in class (d) held at any time in the calendar year in which the electoral rolls were first published.
10. In order to be eligible a candidate must issue notice of their intention to stand not later than the last date for nominations determined under Regulation 7 above. A candidate may only stand in one category. A notice of intention to stand once received by the Vice-Chancellor may not be withdrawn. The Vice-Chancellor shall subsequently publish a complete list of persons intending to stand in the Reporter.
11. The nomination of any candidate who has suffered suspension or deprivation of her or his degree or membership of the University, or who is suffering a sentence of rustication by a University Court or by a College, or whose name, or the name of any of whose nominators, is not included in the roll for the category in which the candidate has been nominated, or in that roll as amended by the Registrary, shall be invalid.
12. The Council shall from time to time make rules in accordance with which the Registrary shall certify persons as students in the University or as graduate students for the purpose of Statute A, IV, 2. Any question of interpretation of the rules shall be decided by the Registrary, whose decision shall be final.
1. These rules shall apply to the compilation of electoral rolls for the election of members of the Council in categories (i) and (ii) of class (d).
2. The term student in the University shall mean a matriculated person certified by the Registrary to be pursuing a course of study leading to a Tripos examination, or a course of study or research leading to a degree, diploma, or certificate of the University.
3. The term undergraduate shall mean a student in the University whose course of study is one leading to any of the following degrees: B.A., M.Eng., M.Math., M.Sci., M.A.St., B.Th. The term graduate student shall mean a student in the University who is not an undergraduate so defined.
4. The Registrary shall include in the electoral roll for category (i) the name of any sabbatical officer of CUSU or GU.
5. The Registrary shall include in the electoral roll for category (ii) the name of any sabbatical officer of CUSU or GU but shall not include in the roll of candidates qualified to stand for election in this category any student who qualifies as an undergraduate student under rule 3.
6. A person whose name is on the Register of Graduate Students shall be eligible for inclusion in the appropriate roll whether or not registered as a candidate for a particular degree, diploma, or certificate.
7. The Registrary shall not include in either roll the name of any Graduate Student who, on 31 October next preceding the election, had been registered for her or his current course of study or research for more than four calendar years, or the name of any Graduate Student holding a Fellowship of any College on 31 October next preceding the election.
To be amended by inserting a new Regulation 3 and a new Appendix so as to read:
3. The General Board shall from time to time make rules in accordance with which the Registrary shall certify persons as undergraduate students or as graduate students in the University for the purpose of Statute C, I, 4(d). Any question of interpretation of the rules shall be decided by the Registrary, whose decision shall be final.
1. These rules shall apply to the compilation of electoral rolls for the election of members of the Board in categories (i) and (ii) of class (d).
2. The term student in the University shall mean a matriculated person certified by the Registrary to be pursuing a course of study leading to a Tripos examination, or a course of study or research leading to a degree, diploma, or certificate of the University.
3. The term undergraduate shall mean a student in the University whose course of study is one leading to any of the following degrees: B.A., M.Eng., M.Math., M.Sci., M.A.St., B.Th. The term graduate student shall mean a student in the University who is not an undergraduate so defined.
4. The Registrary shall include in the electoral roll for category (i) the name of any sabbatical officer of CUSU.
5. The Registrary shall include in the electoral roll for category (ii) the name of any sabbatical officer of CUSU or GU but shall not include in the roll of candidates qualified to stand for election in this category any student who qualifies as an undergraduate student under rule 3.
6. A person whose name is on the Register of Graduate Students shall be eligible for inclusion in the appropriate roll whether or not registered as a candidate for a particular degree, diploma, or certificate.
7. The Registrary shall not include in either roll the name of any Graduate Student who, on 31 October next preceding the election, had been registered for her or his current course of study or research for more than four calendar years, or the name of any Graduate Student holding a Fellowship of any College on 31 October next preceding the election.
The following Annual Reports have been received by the Council and General Board, and are on the websites indicated, if available:
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Annual Report of the Careers Service (2011–12) |
http://www.careers.cam.ac.uk/stuart/ar2012.pdf* |
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Annual Report (2011) of the Wellcome Trust / Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute |
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The Board of Management of the Sainsbury Laboratory 2012 Report to the General Board |
Not yet available on the web |
* 10/02/2017: Now available at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/documents/careers-service/careers-service-annual-report-2012.pdf.
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