No 6281
Wednesday 17 October 2012
Vol cxliii No 4
pp. 42–53
20 October, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 11 a.m. (see p. 50). End of first quarter of Michaelmas Term.
4 November, Sunday. Commemoration of Benefactors. Scarlet Day. Preacher before the University at 11.15 a.m., The Rt Rev’d Stephen D. Conway, of Selwyn College, Lord Bishop of Ely (Lady Margaret’s Preacher).
6 November, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House.
9 November, Friday. Michaelmas Term divides.
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Discussions at 2 p.m. |
Congregations |
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6 November |
20 October, Saturday at 11 a.m. |
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20 November |
24 November, Saturday at 2 p.m. |
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4 December |
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that the Discussion announced for Tuesday, 23 October 2012, will not take place as there are no Reports ready for discussion.
The Reports published in this issue (on p. 48 and p. 49) will be discussed on Tuesday, 6 November 2012.
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that the title of the 2012 Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Hermione Lee, President of Wolfson College, Oxford, will be Brotherly biography: Leslie Stephen and life-writing.
Professor Lee will lecture in the Senate-House at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, 19 November 2012. All are welcome. Senior members of the University attending wear black gowns. There will be a Reception in the University Combination Room following the Lecture.
The Council has authorized the closure of the University Offices from 5 p.m. on Friday, 21 December 2012, until 8.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 2 January 2013. The University Messenger Service will not operate during the period of closure.
The Reporter has been published in an online-only format since the start of the 2011–12 academical year. The Registrary, as Editor, wishes to review this change and to consider, inter alia, the comments made during the Discussion held on 22 March 2011 (Reporter, 2010–11, p. 676) about the Report of the Council, dated 7 March 2011, on the future of the Reporter and other publications (Reporter, 2010–11, p. 597). The Council responded to some of the issues raised in the Discussion by way of its Notice, dated 16 May 2011 (Reporter, 2010–11, p. 757), but other aspects of the change required a sustained period of operation before an assessment could be carried out.
The Registrary has asked Professor David Ibbetson (Regius Professor of Civil Law, Faculty of Law) to carry out the review. Professor Ibbetson hopes to report his conclusions to the Registrary in the Lent Term 2013. The Registrary will consider the review and publish it to the University, with his response, in the form of a Notice.
Professor Ibbetson’s review will focus particularly on two issues: (a) the arrangements for maintaining a permanent archive of the information published in the Reporter; and (b) the effects of the change on the dissemination of information from the central administration to interested parties and members of the wider University community.
Professor Ibbetson will be inviting submissions from many principal University committees and relevant bodies (including the Councils of the Schools, Faculty Boards, the Colleges’ Committee, the Senior Tutors’ Committee, the Graduate Tutors’ Committee, the Bursars’ Committee, and the Student Unions). He would also like to invite all members of the University to submit written evidence and comments for his consideration. Any such submissions should be addressed by email to Reporter.Review@admin.cam.ac.uk, and should arrive no later than 30 November 2012.