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No 6348

Wednesday 21 May 2014

Vol cxliv No 31

pp. 558–592

Notices

Calendar

21 May, Wednesday. Easter Term divides.

25 May, Sunday. Preacher before the University at 11.15 a.m., Dr C. M. Amos, G, Programme Executive for Inter-religious Dialogue and Co-operation at the World Council of Churches (Ramsden Preacher).

27 May, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House (see below).

29 May, Thursday. Ascension Day. Scarlet Day.

8 June, Sunday. Whitsunday. Scarlet Day. End of third quarter of Easter Term.

Discussions at 2 p.m.

Congregations

27 May

18 June, Wednesday at 2.45 p.m. (Honorary Degrees)

10 June

25 June, Wednesday at 10 a.m. (General Admission)

8 July

26 June, Thursday at 10 a.m. (General Admission)

27 June, Friday at 10 a.m. (General Admission)

28 June, Saturday at 10 a.m. (General Admission)

19 July, Saturday at 10 a.m.

Notice of a Discussion on Tuesday, 27 May 2014

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, 27 May 2014, at 2 p.m. for the discussion of:

1. Report of the Council, dated 13 May 2014, on the process for the nomination and election of the Chancellor (Reporter, 6347, 2013–14, p. 536).

2. Report of the Council, dated 13 May 2014, on the financial position and budget of the University, recommending allocations from the Chest for 2014–15 (Reporter, 6347, 2013–14, p. 539).

3. Report of the General Board, dated 30 April 2014, on the establishment of a Professorship of Climate Change Economics and Policy (Reporter, 6346, 2013–14, p. 514).

General Admission to Degrees 2014: Notice of procedure

The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that at the Congregations for General Admission to Degrees to be held on 25, 26, 27, and 28 June 2014, tickets will be required for admission to the Senate-House. Admission tickets are issued by Colleges, and prospective graduands should apply to their Colleges for admission tickets for their personal friends whom they wish to invite to the Congregations. Other members of the University who wish to be present are also asked to obtain tickets from their Colleges.

The Congregations will be divided into separate sessions, with intervals between the presentation of candidates from successive Colleges, except that candidates from Murray Edwards College and Darwin College will be presented in a single session, as will candidates from Wolfson College and Clare Hall, and Lucy Cavendish College and St Edmund’s College. Visitors may not leave the Senate-House except in the intervals between sessions.

Members of the University are required to wear academical dress in the Senate-House. Any member of the University who is not acting as an officer at the Congregations and who holds a degree of another university or degree-awarding institution may wear the academical dress appropriate to that degree; save that this provision shall not apply to those presenting for, or receiving, degrees. The days of General Admission are ‘scarlet’ days, and Doctors in the different Faculties are asked to wear their festal gowns.

Timetable for the Congregations

Wednesday 25 June

The doors of the Senate-House will be opened at 9.30 a.m. The Congregation will begin at 10 a.m. and graduands are asked to arrive by the following times.

King’s College

9.50

Peterhouse

2.20

Trinity College

10.40

Clare College

3.00

St John’s College

12.10

Pembroke College

4.10

The Congregation will be dissolved at about 5 p.m.

Thursday 26 June

The doors of the Senate-House will be opened at 9.30 a.m. The Congregation will begin at 10 a.m. and graduands are asked to arrive by the following times.

Gonville and Caius College

9.50

St Catharine’s College

2.20

Trinity Hall

11.10

Jesus College

3.15

Corpus Christi College

12.00

Christ’s College

4.25

Queens’ College

12.40

The Congregation will be dissolved at about 5 p.m.

Friday 27 June

The doors of the Senate-House will be opened at 9.30 a.m. The Congregation will begin at 10 a.m. and graduands are asked to arrive by the following times.

Magdalene College

9.50

Girton College

2.05

Emmanuel College

10.35

Newnham College

3.25

Sidney Sussex College

11.50

Selwyn College

4.15

Downing College

12.35

The Congregation will be dissolved at about 5 p.m.

Saturday 28 June

The doors of the Senate-House will be opened at 9.30 a.m. The Congregation will begin at 10 a.m. and graduands are asked to arrive by the following times.

Fitzwilliam College

9.50

Robinson College

1.55

Churchill College

10.40

Lucy Cavendish College and St Edmund’s College

2.45

Murray Edwards College and Darwin College

11.30

Hughes Hall

3.20

Wolfson College and Clare Hall

1.00

Homerton College

4.00

The Congregation will be dissolved at about 5.15 p.m.

Vice-Chancellor’s deputies at General Admission

In addition to those Heads of House who are Deputy Vice-Chancellors for the academical year under Statute C III 7(a), the Vice-Chancellor has appointed the remaining Heads of House to act as his deputy under the provisions of Statute C III 7(b) for the purpose of conferring degrees during the Congregations for General Admission in 2014.

General Admission to Degrees: Registrary’s Notice

The Registrary gives notice that the latest time for the receipt of supplicats and any necessary certificates of terms for persons who propose to take degrees at General Admission on Wednesday, 25 June, Thursday, 26 June, Friday, 27 June, or Saturday, 28 June 2014, is 10 a.m. on Monday, 16 June 2014. No further additions to degree lists can be accepted after that date.

Review of the Results of Examinations for Postgraduate Qualifications

19 May 2014

The Council has accepted a recommendation by the General Board, with the concurrence of the Board of Graduate Studies, that the scope of the regulations for the Review of the Results of Examinations for Postgraduate Qualifications (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 444) should not be restricted to students who either (i) have failed an examination or (ii) have been successful but are seeking a review of a decision not to permit them to continue to a further Cambridge postgraduate qualification. The Council has also accepted a recommendation from the same bodies that progress examinations approved under Regulation 9 of the General Regulations for Admission as a Graduate Student (typically examinations to determine whether or not a student should be formally registered as a candidate for the Ph.D. Degree; Statutes and Ordinances, p. 439) should fall within the scope of the regulations. The Council is submitting a Grace to the Regent House (Grace 8, p. 577) for approval of the amended Regulation and Schedule.

Bye-election of a student member of the Council: correction

14 May 2014

The Notice concerning a bye-election of a student member of the Council published on 24 April 2014 contained a further error (Reporter, 2013–14, 6345, p. 497 and 6346, p. 512). The vacancy is for a member in class (d)(ii) (all eligible graduate students), not class (d)(i). In the elections held in March 2014, the Notice announcing the candidates should have stated that all three candidates were standing for election in class (d)(i) (all eligible students), and the Notice announcing the results of the election should therefore have noted that both persons were elected in class (d)(i), and that a bye-election would be held to fill one vacancy in class (d)(ii) (Reporter, 6342, 2013–14, p. 432).

Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2013

The Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2013 cycle information is now live on the Undergraduate Study website. An online pdf copy of the Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2013 cycle is available at http://www.study.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/publications/docs/admissionsstatistics2013.pdf. Further information about undergraduate admissions statistics is available at http://www.study.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/apply/statistics/.