No 6333
Wednesday 15 January 2014
Vol cxliv No 16
pp. 260–290
21 January, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House (see below).
24 January, Friday. End of first quarter of Lent Term.
25 January, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 2 p.m. (see p. 289).
4 February, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House.
9 February, Sunday. Preacher before the University at 11.15 a.m., Reverend Professor D. A. Wilkinson, F, Principal of St John’s College in the University of Durham.
The Vice-Chancellor invites those qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 103) to attend a Discussion in the Senate-House, on Tuesday, 21 January 2014, at 2 p.m., for the discussion of:
1. Review of the governance and management arrangements for sport within the University, November 2013 (see the Council’s Notice dated 2 December 2013 (Reporter, 6238, 2013–14, p. 139), and the full report at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2013-14/weekly/6328/SportReview.pdf).
2. Annual Report of the Council for the academical year 2012–13, dated 25 November 2013 (Reporter, 6329, 2013–14, p. 158).
3. Annual Report of the General Board to the Council for the academical year 2012–13, dated 19 November 2013 (Reporter, 6329, 2013–14, p. 166).
4. Reports and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 July 2013 (Reporter, 6329, 2013–14, p. 171).
5. Report of the Council, dated 23 December 2013, on the construction of a new annexe building to the Department of Engineering’s Electrical Engineering Division building (CAPE) at West Cambridge (Reporter, 6332, 2013–14, p. 254).
6. Second-Stage Report of the Council, dated 23 December 2013, on the construction of a new annexe building for the Department of Engineering at Scroope Terrace (Reporter, 6332, 2013–14, p. 256).
The Report published in this issue (p. 287) will be discussed on 4 February 2014.
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 £3.8m from Shell to support the establishment of a laboratory for research into magnetic resonance imaging in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology;
(ii)a benefaction of £1,389,886 from the Arcadia Fund, to be paid over five years, to fund the post of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative’s Executive Director and an assistant to support the Director, as a continuation of the Arcadia Fund’s support for the Executive Director post (Reporter, 6155, 2008–09, p. 866);
(iii)a benefaction of £260,000 from Gazprom, to be paid over three years, to support Russian language training in the University.
The Vice-Chancellor has also accepted with gratitude a benefaction of £450,000 from the Trustees of the Golden Web Foundation, to establish the Ibn Battutah Fund, named after the 14th century traveller and scholar, to provide studentships for Graduate Students in the arts and humanities. The Council is submitting a Grace to the Regent House (Grace 4, p. 288) for the approval of regulations to govern the Fund.
Grace 9 associated with the Second Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on new pay and grading arrangements for non-clinical staff (Reporter, 6002, 2004–05, p. 745) provides for the Council to publish at least annually (i) anonymized statistical information about the number of non-clinical staff on each step of the single spine, for the institution as a whole and by School (or equivalent), according to staff category, grade, and gender; and (ii) anonymized information by School (or equivalent), according to staff category, grade, and gender, of additional payments made under the regulations for payments additional to stipend, but excluding payments for clinical responsibility.
Accordingly the Council now publishes information for 2012–13 showing in the tables below the payments that have been made. All data is to 31 July 2013.
Tables 1–9 show the number of non-clinical staff on each step of the single spine by grade and gender for (a) academic including research staff and (b) academic-related and assistant staff. Table 1 shows the data for the institution as a whole; Tables 2–9 show the data by School (or equivalent). In each table contribution points on the single spine are shaded.
Table 10 shows (a) pensionable and (b) non-pensionable payments made under the regulations for payments additional to stipend for each School (or equivalent) according to staff category (academic and non-academic) and by grade and gender, including bonus payments.
Under the arrangements introduced by the Second Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on new pay and grading arrangements for non-clinical staff (Reporter, 6002, 2004–05, p. 745), market supplements may be made to secure the recruitment or retention of an individual member of staff.
Grace 7 associated with the Second Joint Report provides for the Council to publish anonymized statistical information on all awards of market supplements at least annually by staff category, grade, gender, and School (or equivalent).
Accordingly, the Council publishes below information for 2012–13 on the market supplements that have been made. Table 11(a) shows the total number of staff in receipt of market supplements; Table 11(b) shows the number of awards made between 1 August 2012 and 31 July 2013.
In order to improve scrutiny, accountability, and transparency in the award of market supplements the Council established a Remuneration Committee (Reporter, 6093, 2007–08, p. 282) which considers, as part of its remit, the determination of market supplements over 10% for professorial and equivalent staff.