No 6301
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Vol cxliii No 24
pp. 395–410
15 March, Friday. Full Term ends.
19 March, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House.
23 March, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 10 a.m.
25 March, Monday. Lent Term ends.
31 March, Sunday. Easter Day. Scarlet Day.
17 April, Wednesday. Easter Term begins.
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that the Discussion announced for Tuesday, 19 March 2013 will not take place as there are no Reports ready for discussion.
The two Reports published in this issue (on p. 408) will be discussed on Tuesday, 30 April 2013.
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that he has received with gratitude a benefaction of securities valued in the region of £1 million from Dr Colin Forbes, formerly a University Lecturer in the Department of Geology and a Curator of the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. The benefaction, of which the capital and the income will be available, will be added to the Forbes Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 814), which was established to support the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences following a benefaction from Dr Forbes in 2010.
The Vice-Chancellor begs leave to refer to his Notice of 18 February 2013 (Reporter, 6298, 2012–13, p. 368), concerning a proposed amending Statute for Clare College. He hereby gives notice that in the opinion of the Council the proposed Statute makes no alteration of any Statute which affects the University, and does not require the consent of the University; that the interests of the University are not prejudiced by it, and that the Council has resolved to take no action upon it, provided that the Council will wish to reconsider the proposed Statute if it has not been submitted to the Privy Council by 8 March 2014.
In the following Notice the Council proposes amendments to the fees for certain categories of students.
The Council proposes a rate of increase of 1.88% on 2012–13 fees for Home and EU postgraduate research courses for the academical year 2013–14, reflecting guidance by the Research Councils.
The same increase will apply by default to fees for taught courses except where other proposals have been made by the Councils of the Schools or minor adjustment to the schedule is needed.
The Council proposes the 2013–14 fees for the M.B.A. and M.Fin. courses and certain M.St. courses which have been recommended by the relevant bodies as set out in the Schedule attached to this Notice.
Because UUK no longer provide annual guidance about the fees to be charged to Island students, the Council proposes that previous guidance be followed for continuing students who commenced in 2012 or earlier. (The separate category of Island student has been abolished for new entrants in and after 2013.)
(a)Fees for Island students who commenced in 2012 were set with reference to Home/EU New Regime fees; those fees have not increased for 2013–14 and it is proposed that the Island rate of fees does not increase.
(b)The Student Fees (Inflation Index) Regulations informed UUK’s recommendations for the annual increase to be applied to the Island rate of fees for students admitted before 2012. The initial rate quoted by UUK for 2012–13 was subsequently retracted and substituted by a lower value but too late to be acted on by the University. The Council therefore recommends an increase of 1.1% for 2013–14 over the fees charged in 2012–13 to bring them back in line, with an exception for the Group 4/5 rate which would exceed the fee charged to Island students admitted the next year if not held back to the same value.
The proposed fees are set out in the Schedule attached to this Notice.
The Council proposes that:
(a)Overseas fees for all continuing and new entrant undergraduate students be increased by 5% over the 2013–14 rates;
(b)Overseas fees for all continuing and new entrant postgraduate students be increased by 5% over the 2013–14 rates (except for continuing Ph.D., MSc., M.Litt., Ed.D., Eng.D. and C.P.G.S. students who commenced in 2013–14 as their fees are fixed for the duration of their course).
The Councils of the Schools have recommended that the fees for the courses listed below should be amended, with effect from September 2014, as follows:
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Advanced Computer Science |
Both the Home/EU and Overseas fees to be the same as Advanced Chemical Engineering |
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Applied Biological Anthropology |
Home/EU fee to increase to £5,799 |
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Biological Anthropological Science |
Home/EU fee to increase to £5,799 |
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Education |
Home/EU fee to be the same value as the Home/EU UG New Regime fee inclusive of the College Graduate Fee Overseas fees to increase by £500 plus general inflation increase |
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History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technology, and Medicine |
Home/EU fee to be the same as Modern Society and Global TransformationOverseas fees to increase by £500 plus general inflation increase |
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Human Evolutionary Studies |
Home/EU fees to increase to £5,799 |
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Social Anthropology |
For all students – to be the same fee as the course in International Relations and Politics |
For all the following courses, the Overseas fees are to increase by £300 (in addition to the general inflation increase):
American Literature
Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic
Architecture
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Classics
English Studies
European Literature and Culture
History of Art and Architecture
Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Music Studies
Philosophy
Screen Media and Cultures
Theology and Religious Studies
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
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Social Anthropology |
For all students – to be the same fee as the course in International Relations and Politics |
The Home/EU fee to be 50% of the M.Phil. Education Home/EU fee (the same value as the M.Ed.).
The Council is accordingly submitting a Grace to the Regent House (Grace 1, p. 407) for the approval of the revised fees set out in the Schedule attached to this Notice.
Subject to the approval of the Grace, a complete table of fees will be published in the next edition of Statutes and Ordinances and made available on the Planning and Resource Allocation Office website (http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/planning/).
During 2013 the University Computing Service (UCS) will be moving. This includes all main servers and associated networking and almost all staff, and affects most UCS services.
Current information on the planned schedule of moves can be found at http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/about-us/ucs-move; this web page will be updated as University plans are finalized.
Certain services will remain on the New Museums site for the convenience of users. These will include the Photographic and Illustration Service, a Reception/Service Desk presence, and the Service’s main teaching rooms.
The UCS is currently planning the relocation programme and has begun preparation for the transfer of services. Every effort will be made to try to keep service disruption to a minimum during the transition by careful staging of system moves.