No 6310
Thursday 30 May 2013
Vol cxliii No 33
pp. 581–599
8 June, Saturday. End of third quarter of Easter Term.
11 June, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Council Room (see below).
14 June, Friday. Full Term ends.
Discussions at 2 p.m. |
Congregations |
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11 June |
18 June, Tuesday at 2.45 p.m. (Honorary Degrees) |
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9 July |
27 June, Thursday at 9.30 a.m. (General Admission) |
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28 June, Friday at 9.30 a.m. (General Admission) |
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29 June, Saturday at 9.30 a.m. (General Admission) |
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20 July, Saturday at 10 a.m. |
The Vice-Chancellor invites those qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107) to attend a Discussion in the Council Room, on Tuesday, 11 June 2013, at 2 p.m., for the discussion of:
1. Report of the Council, dated 20 May 2013, on the financial position and budget of the University, recommending allocations from the Chest for 2013–14 (Reporter, 6308, 2012–13, p. 555).
2. Report of the Council, dated 28 May 2013, on the Technical Review of the Statutes (Reporter, 6309, 2012–13, p. 579).
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that he has accepted with gratitude the following benefactions, of which both the capital and the income may be used:
(i)a benefaction of £100,000 from Cambridge in America (UK) Ltd, following a donation by Anne Glover CBE, towards the new building for the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy;
(ii)a benefaction of £250,000 from Toshiba Research Europe to support the work of Professor David Richie in the Department of Physics;
(iii)a benefaction of US$500,000 from Cambridge in America, following a gift from Mr Edward P. Bass, to support an exchange programme between Cambridge and Yale Universities for graduate students in architecture;
(iv)a benefaction of £250,000 for the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences from Mr Clive Humby and Ms Edwina Dunn;
(v)an unrestricted donation from the LJC Fund;
(vi)an anonymous benefaction of £183,043 to support bursaries for students on the Master of Philosophy course in Finance and Economics;
(vii)a benefaction of £300,522 from the Anglo American Group Foundation to support the EcoHouse Initiative, a collaborative research project developing sustainable housing in Latin America, based in the Departments of Engineering and Architecture;
(viii)a benefaction of £25,000 from the Staples Trust to support the appeal by the Scott Polar Research Institute to purchase the lost photographs of Captain Scott;
(ix)a benefaction of £1,000,000 from the Underwood Trust, to support the establishment of the Cambridge Engineering Online Tuition System at the Department of Engineering.
The Council has received the remarks made at the Discussion on 14 May 2013 concerning the above Report (Reporter, 2012–13; 6304, p. 471; 6308, p. 577).
The three major stakeholders (University Computing Service (UCS), High Performance Computing Service (HPCS), and Cambridge Assessment) each have high-level representation on the Data Centre Steering Committee, and internal communication is channelled through those members.
The design and capacity of the proposed Data Centre are in accordance with the parameters agreed during the design process. In the event, the availability of space in the Soulsby and Roger Needham Buildings provides more capacity for UCS than originally anticipated. The proposed Data Centre includes three halls that will be fully fitted out when construction is complete. When these halls are full and demand justifies it, the fourth ‘fallow’ hall can be fitted out and brought into use. The building has been designed with common services and infrastructure with a potential second building adjacent. If the demand grows further, and if the business case for co-location for further servers is compelling, then the second building can be constructed relatively quickly without disruption to the first.
It is difficult to provide precise figures for achievable carbon reduction since accurate PUE (power usage effectiveness) ratings are not available for the current machine rooms. It should also be understood that maximum operating efficiencies will not be achieved until the halls are working at full capacity. The assessment of 40% in savings quoted in the Report is therefore an estimate of the level of savings possible based on an estimated average Facility PUE of 2.0 for all the existing organizations that will relocate to the new Data Centre. This estimate was itself based upon measured Data Room PUEs provided by Cambridge Assessment that were considered to be at least as efficient as those occupied within the University. This is the best information available on which to provide an approximate basis of assessment at the present time. The ‘most energy-efficient’ cooling mechanisms were ultimately rejected because the capital expenditure required to satisfy the different technical requirements of the UCS and HPCS elements would have been prohibitive. Re-use of heat elsewhere on the West Cambridge site is not currently economical, as demand for the low-grade heat produced by the facility is insufficient at present.
The Steering Committee expect to appoint a Manager to take up the position in late summer 2013. The Manager will be the key individual for liaising with Estate Management on the construction and testing of the Data Centre, will take the lead in planning financial models, and will also be the key contact liaising with the current planned occupants as well as potential future users. In the first instance the Manager is likely to report to the Chair of the Steering Committee, but the intention is that line management responsibility will transfer as soon as is practicable to the Director of Information Services.
The Council is publishing a Grace (Grace 1, p. 598) for the approval of this Report.
Agreement has now been reached on increases in clinical salaries for 2013. Following a recent meeting of the Board of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association, the Clinical Academic Staff Salaries Committee have agreed to translate the recent award of the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Review Body into the salaries of clinical academic staff. The increase, from 1 April 2013, is 1% on the scale points for Consultants and Clinical Lecturers.
In accordance with the principle that the remuneration of clinical academic staff in Cambridge should be broadly comparable with that of equivalent staff in other UK medical schools, the General Board have agreed to approve revised stipends and scales of stipends for clinical appointments in Cambridge. The figures currently shown in Schedule II to the regulations for Stipends (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 684) are replaced, with effect from 1 April 2013, by the following figures:
For Clinical Lecturers on the equivalent of the NHS Specialist Registrar scales (pre-2009):
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£31,301 by ten increments to £54,199 |
For Clinical Lecturers on the equivalent of the NHS Specialty Registrar scales (post-2009):
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£31,838 by ten increments to £56,312 |
The offices of Associate Dean in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine, Director, and Assistant Director of Studies in General Practice are part-time and stipends are determined by local agreement, with reference to the appropriate full-time Consultant salary.
The Board have also approved the following basis for calculating rates of payment for clinical responsibility for University officers with honorary NHS contracts as Consultants:
New (2003) Consultant Contract:
If the integrated job plan and the honorary Consultant contract agreed with the NHS covers not less than ten Programmed Activities a week, the annual pensionable payment for clinical responsibility will amount to the difference between the officer’s prime stipend and her or his notional place on the NHS full-time Consultant salary scale.
That scale is:
With effect from 1 April 2013: £75,249, £77,605, £79,961, £82,318, £84,667, £90,263, £95,860, £101,451.
Pre-2003 Consultant Contract:
If the honorary Consultant contract agreed with the NHS covers not less than six NHS sessions a week, the annual pensionable payment for clinical responsibility will amount to the difference between the officer’s prime stipend and her or his notional place on the NHS full-time Consultant salary scale.
That scale is:
With effect from 1 April 2013: £62,478, £66,948, £71,419, £75,889, £80,988.
The Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2012 cycle information is now live on the Undergraduate Study website. An online pdf copy of the Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2012 cycle is available at http://www.study.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/publications/docs/admissionsstatistics2012.pdf. Further information about undergraduate admissions statistics is available at http://www.study.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/apply/statistics/.