Reporter 28/7/99: Graces submitted to the Regent House on 28 July 1999

Graces submitted to the Regent House on 28 July 1999

The Council submit the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 115) will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 6 August 1999.

1. That the regulations for dates of examinations and publication of class-lists be amended as follows:¹

Regulation 2.

By deleting in the table the footnote (relating to the examination in Materials Science and Metallurgy) attached to the entry 'Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II'.

2. That, on the recommendation of the General Board, the regulations for the Botanic Garden be amended as follows:²

Regulations 5-11.

By replacing Regulations 5 and 6 by the following Regulation 5, and by renumbering Regulations 7-11 as 6-10:

5. Except as may be otherwise provided by Statute or by Ordinances relating to a particular University office in the Department of Plant Sciences:

(a)	appointments and reappointments to the University office of Director of the Botanic Garden shall be made by the General Board, on the advice of a committee specially constituted for the particular occasion;
(b)	the Director shall be appointed to hold office in the first instance for five years, unless a waiver of this requirement is approved by the General Board; on reappointment, or on first appointment if the foregoing requirement is waived, the Director shall hold office until the retiring age so long as he or she satisfactorily performs the duties of the office.

3. That a West Midlands Examinations Board Fund be established in the University, to be governed by the following regulations:³

West Midlands Examinations Board Fund (WMEB Fund)

1. The assets transferred to the University by the West Midlands Examinations Board shall form a fund called the WMEB Fund.

2. The capital and income of the Fund shall be at the disposal of the Local Examinations Syndicate for the following purposes:

(a)	to promote and develop examinations administered by Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations (OCR);
(b)	to provide annually one or more bursaries or prizes for students resident and educated in the West Midlands area;
(c)	to provide annually one or more bursaries for teachers in service in the West Midlands area to enable them to undertake a period of study leave or research with the Local Examinations Syndicate or OCR into some aspect of educational development, particularly learning and assessment.

3. The Local Examinations Syndicate may make such rules from time to time as may be necessary to govern the award of bursaries and prizes under Regulation 2(b) and (c).

¹ Statutes and Ordinances, p. 209. The examination in Materials Science and Metallurgy in Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos is currently held, unlike the examinations in other subjects of Part II, at the beginning of the Easter Term. In the light of experience this arrangement has been found to be unsatisfactory, and it is proposed to discontinue it.

² Statutes and Ordinances, p. 588. This amendment is designed to ensure that the provisions for the appointment of the Director of the Botanic Garden are consistent with the regulations for the Professor of Plant Cytogenetics (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 669), which require the holder of the Professorship to be ex officio Director of the Garden.

³ See the Council's Notice, p. 906.

T. J. MEAD, Registrary

END OF THE OFFICIAL PART OF THE 'REPORTER'

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