Graces

Graces submitted to the Regent House on 1 August 2012

The Council submits the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, unless they are withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 10 August 2012.

1. That the regulations for the Cambridge University Students Union and the Graduate Union be amended in each case as follows:1

Regulation 10 (Resignation).

By amending the first sentence by deleting the words ‘by the division of the first term in which he or she is in residence in that year’ so as to read:

10. Any member of the Union who wishes to resign membership in a particular academical year shall be entitled to do so by giving notice in writing, on a prescribed form, to the Registrary.

2. That the Table of Fees approved by Grace 1 of 13 June 2012 be amended as follows:

M.Phil. Degrees

(i) By inserting the following entries with effect from 1 October 2012:

Qualification	Annual Fee (£)
	Home/EU/Channel Isles/Isle of Man students	Overseas & Island students
	(2012–13)	(2013–14)
M.Phil. Degree:
Astronomy	3,828	17,880
Materials Science	3,828	17,880

(ii) By inserting the following entries with effect from 1 October 2013:

		Overseas & Island students
		(2013–14)
International Relations and Politics		18,045

(iii) By deleting the following entries with effect from 1 October 2013:

Politics

International Relations

M.Res. Degrees

(i) By inserting the following entry with effect from 1 October 2012:

Qualification	Annual Fee (£)
	Home/EU/Channel Isles/Isle of Man students	Overseas & Island students
	(2012–13)	(2013–14)
M.Res. Degree:
Ultra Precision	3,828	17,880

M.St. Degrees

(i) By inserting the following entry with effect from 1 October 2012:

Qualification	Annual Fee (£)
	Home/EU/Island students	Overseas students
	(2012–13)	(2013–14)
M.St. Degree:
Creative Writing	5,000	10,000

3. That Regulations 8(c), 10, and 12 of the General Regulations for Admission as a Graduate Student (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 415) be amended, with effect from 1 October 2013, as follows:2

8. Each Graduate Student shall pursue either

(c)a course of advanced study, as prescribed in the appropriate special regulations for the M.Ed. Degree or M.Phil. Degree and approved by the Board and the Degree Committee concerned, under the direction of a Supervisor appointed by the Degree Committee concerned, and shall comply with any special conditions that the Degree Committee or the Board may lay down in her or his case, or

And, by the addition of a footnote to clause (i) of the requirements of supervision reporting to permit reports to be submitted at least three times over the duration of the course for a candidate for the M.Ed. Degree.

10. The Board shall have power to deprive any person of the status of Graduate Student:

(a)if he or she is no longer a member of a College;

(b)if he or she has failed to pay the fees due from a Graduate Student;

(c)if he or she has completed twelve terms of research as a full-time Graduate Student registered for the Ph.D., M.Sc., M.Litt., or Eng.D. Degree or a proportionately longer period if registered as a part-time Graduate Student. In such a case the Board shall consult the Degree Committee before depriving the person of the status of Graduate Student;

(d)if, in the opinion of the Degree Committee and the Board, the report on the examination prescribed under Regulation 9 is such as to show that the candidate is not qualified to continue in her or his course;

(e)if, after completing three terms (if registered for a full-time course) or five terms (if registered for a part-time course) he or she is not registered as a candidate for any degree, provided that in such a case the Board shall have obtained the concurrence of the Degree Committee in the deprivation;

(f)if the Degree Committee have satisfied the Board

(i)that the student has not been working to their satisfaction; or

(ii)that the student has not complied with the conditions laid down in her or his case; or

(iii)that, in their opinion, the student is not likely to reach the standard of the M.Sc. or M.Litt. Degree, or M.Phil. or M.Ed. or M.Res. Degree, or of any other qualification for which he or she might be registered as a candidate.

12. If the Tutor of a candidate for the M.Phil. or M.Res. or M.Ed. Degree or for any Diploma or Certificate for which candidates are required to be Graduate Students, supplies the Board of Graduate Studies with satisfactory evidence that the candidate has been hindered by illness or other grave cause in preparing for or taking the examination or any part of the examination for the degree or other qualification concerned, and such representations are received by the Secretary of the Board not later than three months after the date on which the result of the examination was communicated by the Secretary to the candidate, the Board shall have power, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in the relevant regulations,

either	(a)	to approve the candidate for the degree or other qualification without further examination, provided that no candidate shall be so approved unless the Degree Committee concerned judge her or him to have performed with credit in a substantial part of the examination,
or	(b)	to allow the candidate to be examined or re-examined under such conditions and at such time as may be determined by the Board after consultation with the Degree Committee concerned;

provided that a candidate may reject the offer of an allowance by writing to the Secretary of the Board within one month of the date on which the allowance was offered. Representations received after the prescribed time limit shall not be considered.

4. That the M.Ed. Degree be added to the Schedule of examinations to which the regulations for the Review of the Results of Examinations for Postgraduate Qualifications apply.3

5. That, on the recommendation of the General Board, the regulations for the Schools and Councils of the Schools be amended, with effect from 1 October 2012, as follows:4

General Regulations

By amending sub-paragraph (d) so as to read:

(d)One undergraduate student member and one graduate student member of the Council of a School shall be elected by the undergraduate and graduate students respectively under the constituent Faculties, Syndicates, or other Boards or Committees of Management in each School. The student members of each Council shall be elected by ballot in each academical year. The electoral roll will be of all the persons who on 15 November were eligible, under the provisions of Election of Student Members of Faculty Boards and Other Bodies, Schedule IV, to vote and to stand as candidates in the election. The date and procedure for the election shall be determined by the Council of the School concerned, provided that the election shall not be held later than the division of the Lent Term. Students elected shall serve from the date of their election until such date in the following year as shall be determined as the day for the election of new student members, or until such earlier date as they may cease to qualify for membership of the constituent institution. The returning officer shall be the Head of the School or a member of the Regent House appointed by the Council of the School. If at an election of a student member or members the total number of vacancies is not filled, the Council of the School may fix a date for the holding of a further election to fill such vacancies as are unfilled. The persons eligible to vote and to stand as candidates in such an election shall be those persons who were so eligible in the preceding election.

6. That, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Science, Regulation 2 for certain Archaeology and Anthropology Funds be amended as follows:

A. Glyn Daniel Award (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 772)

B. Isbel Fletcher Garden Fund and Scholarship (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 788)

C. Mark Gregson Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 797)

D. Richards Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 886)

By adding the words ‘or her or his deputy’ after the words ‘Head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology’.

7. That the Order of Seniority of Graduates (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 186) be amended by inserting the following entries after the Regius Professor of Greek:5

Regius Professor of History

Regius Professor of Botany

Regius Professor of Engineering

8. That, with immediate effect, the Regulations for Affiliated Students be amended as follows:6

Regulation 6.

By amending the Regulation pertaining to English so as to read:

English

The right to take in the second term after the student’s first term of actual residence the Preliminary Examination for Part II of the English Tripos; and the right to take in the fifth term after the student’s first term of actual residence Part II of the English Tripos, subject to the regulations for that Part which apply to Affiliated Students.