Reporter 4/3/98: Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos

Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos

The regulations for the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 330 and 343) have been amended as set out below. The effect of these amendments is (a) to discontinue the provision of Czech, Hungarian, and Polish as regular subjects of examination in the Tripos, with effect from October 1998 in the case of Czech, and with effect from October 2001 in the case of Hungarian and Polish, since the Faculty Board are unable to guarantee teaching in these subjects after the dates specified, and (b) to allow the Faculty Board to make these languages available on a temporary basis in years when teaching can be provided. The regulations have been amended as follows:

With effect from 1 October 1998:

OLD REGULATIONS
Regulation 16.

By deleting the words 'Czech (with Slovak)'.

Schedule II.

By deleting Papers 87 and 88.

NEW REGULATIONS
Regulation 18(a).

By deleting the words 'Czech (with Slovak)'.

Schedules B, IA, IB, and II.

By deleting the entries relating to Czech.

By renumbering Regulation 29 as 31 and by inserting the following Regulations 29 and 30:

PARTS I AND II

29. The Faculty Board shall have power to grant permission to a candidate for any Part of the Tripos to offer in the examination a modern language other than those specified in Regulation 18(a), provided that the Faculty Board are satisfied

(a)	that any language which is thus offered possesses a literature adequate for the purposes of examination;
(b)	that the requisite teaching can be provided by the Faculty Board.

An application for such permission shall be made through the candidate's Tutor to the Secretary of the Faculty Board at the earliest possible date and in no circumstances later than 21 October next preceding the examination.

For a language offered under this regulation written papers shall be set and oral examinations shall be held as specified in Schedule A; the Faculty Board shall have power to determine the papers to be set relating to the literature, history, and culture of the country concerned or the history of the language.

30. Not later than the division of the Michaelmas Term each year the Secretary of the Faculty Board shall inform the Registrary of any language for which permission has been granted under Regula- tion 29, together with the names of the candidates to whom such permission has been granted.

With effect from 1 October 2001:

NEW REGULATIONS
Regulation 18(a).

By deleting the words 'Hungarian' and 'Polish'.

Schedules B, IA, IB, and II.

By deleting the entries relating to Hungarian and Polish.

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