Reporter 10/6/98: Regulations: Management Studies Tripos

Management Studies Tripos

The regulations for the Management Studies Tripos (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 319) have been amended as set out below. The purpose of the amendments is to reduce the number of written papers from five to three, and to introduce an additional element, viz. a report on a project, into the examination requirements. It is also proposed (see Grace 2, p. 781) that the written examination should be taken early in the Easter Term, so as to leave the greater part of that term free for candidates to work on their projects. The regulations for the Tripos have been amended, with effect from 1 October 1998, as follows:

Regulations 5-8.

By deleting Regulation 5 and renumbering Regulations 6-8 as 5-7.

Regulations 9 and 10.

By replacing the regulations by the following Regulations 8 and 9.

8. The following papers shall be set:

M1. Marketing and organizational behaviour.
M2. Quantitative methods and operations management.
M3. Economics and finance.

9. Each candidate shall offer all three papers, and shall submit to the Examiners, not later than the last Monday of Full Easter Term, a report, of not more than 3,000 words, excluding footnotes and bibliography, on a project designed to give evidence of the candidate's industrial, commercial, or equivalent experience. The subject of the project shall be chosen from a list of approved subjects which shall be announced by the Head of the Department of Engineering not later than the last day of Full Lent Term. Reports shall be in typewritten form (unless a candidate has obtained previous permission from the Faculty Board of Engineering to present a report in manuscript). Each candidate will be required to sign a declaration that the project and the report on it are his or her own work, unaided except as may be specified in the declaration, and that the report does not contain material that has already been used to any substantial extent for a comparable purpose; if two or more candidates have undertaken a project in collaboration, they will each be required to indicate the extent of their contribution.

Regulations 11 and 12.

By renumbering Regulation 11 as 10 and deleting Regulation 12.

With effect from the same date, the supplementary regulations for the Management Studies Tripos (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 320) have been replaced by the following regulations:

M1. Marketing and organizational behaviour

The paper will consist mainly of questions on the theory and practice of marketing and the organization and behaviour of people at work.

M2. Quantitative methods and operations management

The paper will consist mainly of questions on the quantitative methods used in management and operations management.

M3. Economics and finance

The paper will consist mainly of questions on the economics of firms and markets, the theory of finance, and financial accounting.

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