13 February, Monday. Lent Term divides.
18 February, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House.
21 February, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House.
Discussions at 2 p.m. |
Congregations |
21 February |
18 February, Saturday at 2 p.m. |
6 March |
21 March, Wednesday at 11 a.m. (Installation of the Chancellor) |
20 March |
24 March, Saturday at 10 a.m. |
Further to his Notice of 9 January (Reporter, 2011–12, p. 359) and in accordance with Statute A, VIII, 2, the Vice-Chancellor informs members of the University that an additional Congregation will take place on Wednesday, 21 March 2012 at 11 a.m. This Congregation will be for the Installation of the Chancellor, The Lord Sainsbury of Turville, M.A., LL.D.(Hon.), Hon. FRS, Hon. FREng, Hon. FMedSci, Honorary Fellow of King’s College. Music will be performed in honour of the Chancellor.
Ticket-holders who are not processing will need to be in their places in the Senate-House not later than 10.45 a.m. If the weather is dry, the first of two processions listed below will form in the Schools Arcade at 10.40 a.m. Those in the categories listed beneath who wish to take part in the first procession must give notice of their intention, and processional tickets will be issued to them up to the number of places available. If the weather is wet, the first procession will not take place and those in this procession will be requested to take their seats in the Senate-House upon arrival. The second procession will form shortly before 11 a.m. The Congregation will end by about 11.40 a.m.
There will be a Reception after the Congregation for all those attending. It will be held under cover in Senate-House Yard and refreshments will be served.
All members of the University attending the Congregation are required to wear academical dress in accordance with the relevant regulations. Other persons attending do not wear academical dress. Wednesday, 21 March 2012 will be a scarlet day, and Doctors in the several Faculties are requested to wear their festal gowns. Hoods are worn at this Congregation. In accordance with Regulation 4 for academical dress (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 187), any member of the University (other than the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, High Steward, Deputy High Steward, Commissary, Proctors, Registrary, or Esquire Bedells) who is a graduate of another university or degree-awarding institution, may, on this occasion, wear the academical dress appropriate to that degree.
Admission to the Senate-House and Yard will be by ticket only and entry to the Yard on this occasion will be by the South-East Gate, from King’s Parade.
All members and all staff (including retired staff) of both the University and the Colleges are invited to apply for tickets. In order to encourage wider participation from within the University, applications for guest tickets will not be accepted.
Applications for tickets, which must be made by letter or by email, and must give the postal address of the applicant and their University or College affiliation, should be sent to Installation of The Chancellor, The Vice-Chancellor’s Office, The Old Schools, Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, or by email ( Chancellor.Installation@admin.cam.ac.uk) to arrive not later than Wednesday, 29 February 2012. Applications cannot be made in person or by telephone.
Applicants will understand that there may be more applications than places that are available. In that case a ballot will be used to allocate tickets and all applications received by the closing date will be included in the ballot. Unsuccessful applications will not be acknowledged and tickets will be sent out to successful applicants in the week beginning Monday, 5 March 2012.
Successful applicants who then find that they cannot use their tickets are asked to return them so that their seats may be offered to others. Tickets are not transferable.
Further details of the arrangements will be included with the tickets.
Those in the classes specified below, who wish to take part in the procession, are asked to state this clearly in their applications. Processional tickets will be issued up to the number of places available to seat the procession. Only the holders of Cambridge Professorial Chairs or Cambridge Higher Doctorates are eligible to process as Professors or Doctors.
With the assent of the Proctors, the Vice-Chancellor has prescribed the following special orders of procession before and after this Congregation.
Those listed below (who have tickets to admit them to the procession, as specified above) assemble in the Schools Arcade not later than 10.40 a.m. (entering by the South-East Gate from King’s Parade).
The Vice-Marshal
Heads of Colleges
The Regius Professor of Divinity
The Regius Professor of Civil Law
The Regius Professor of Physic
The Regius Professor of Hebrew
The Regius Professor of Greek
Professors who are Doctors
Doctors of Divinity
Doctors of Law
Doctors of Medicine
Doctors of Science and Doctors of Letters
The Librarian
Professors who are not Doctors and the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Members of the Council
The Pro-Proctors
A second procession will then form as follows, and will proceed immediately after the first:
The Esquire Bedells
The Vice-Chancellor The Chancellor
The University Marshal
The Orator The Registrary
The Proctors
(University Constables)
The High Steward
The Deputy High Steward
The Commissary
The Pro-Vice-Chancellors
The Deputy Proctors
The Pro-Proctor for Ceremonial
After the Congregation has been dissolved, a procession will leave the Senate-House in the following order:
The Esquire Bedells
The Chancellor
The Chancellor’s Train-Bearer
The University Marshal
The Vice-Chancellor
The Orator The Registrary
The Proctors
(University Constables)
The High Steward
The Deputy High Steward
The Commissary
The Pro-Vice-Chancellors
The Pro-Proctors
The Pro-Proctor for Ceremonial
The Vice-Marshal
The University’s Combined Equality Scheme on race, disability, and gender (Reporter, 2009–10, p. 1117) was approved by Grace 2 of 8 December 2010. The Scheme has since been revised to incorporate the updated public equality duties and the revised Combined Equality Scheme is now available at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/equality/cambridge/scheme/.