No 6340
Wednesday 26 February 2014
Vol cxliv No 23
pp. 376–420
4 March, Tuesday. End of third quarter of Lent Term.
9 March, Sunday. Preacher before the University at 11.15 a.m., The Reverend Professor O. M. T. O’Donovan, Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology Emeritus in the University of Edinburgh (Hulsean Preacher).
14 March, Friday. Full Term ends.
18 March, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House.
22 March, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 11 a.m.
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that the Discussion announced for Tuesday, 4 March 2014 will not take place as there are no Reports ready for discussion.
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that he has accepted with gratitude the following benefactions, of which both the capital and the income may be used:
(i)a philanthropic grant of £1m from the Evelyn Trust, payable over ten years, to contribute towards the construction of an extension to the Addenbrooke’s Clinical Research Centre, including the Research Endoscopy Suite, which shall be named the ‘Evelyn Research Endoscopy Suite’ for at least ten years from its opening;
(ii)a benefaction of £500,000 from the Garfield Weston Foundation to support the design and facilities management of the Conservation Campus in the Arup Building for the Cambridge Conservation Initiative;
(iii)a benefaction of £350,000 from Mr Aubrey Adams to fund support for the Director of the Real Estate Research Centre in the Department of Land Economy for five years;
(iv)a benefaction of £50,000 from Professor Peter Baldwin and Dr Lisbet Rausing to support the University Library.
Under the regulations for the appointment of members of the Council in class (e) (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 112), the Council, on the recommendation of the Proctors and the Deputy Proctors, has appointed Dame Shirley Pearce, a serving member of the Council in class (e), to chair the Nominating Committee for two years from 1 October 2013.
Following discussion at the University and Colleges Joint Committee, the Council has agreed to revise its note of the procedure for making a College Statute (reprinted in the Statutes and Ordinances, p. 97) as follows. The Council is content to limit its note to the steps to be taken by the University.
The procedure for making a College Statute is prescribed by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act 1923. The following provides information on the steps to be taken in assessing whether a proposed College Statute affects the University.
(1)Proposed College Statutes should be sent to the Vice-Chancellor, who within seven days of receipt shall give public notice of the proposed Statute by publishing a notice in the Reporter or by posting a notice outside the Senate-House, describing where the text of it may be seen.
(2)When the Vice-Chancellor has given public notice of a proposed Statute, the Council will consider it, and will then announce:
|
either |
(a) |
that in their opinion the proposed Statute alters a Statute which affects the University, and may not be made without the consent of the University; but that the interests of the University are not prejudiced by it, and that they will bring before the Regent House a Grace for the grant of the necessary consent; |
|
or |
(b) |
that in their opinion the proposed Statute alters a Statute which affects the University, and may not be made without the consent of the University; that the interests of the University are prejudiced by it and that they will bring before the Regent House a Grace for the refusal of the necessary consent; |
|
or |
(c) |
that in their opinion 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 they have resolved to take no action upon it; |
|
or |
(d) |
that in their opinion the proposed Statute makes no alteration of any Statute which affects the University, and does not require the consent of the University; but that the interests of the University are prejudiced by it, and that they have accordingly resolved to petition Her Majesty in Council for its disallowance, or for the disallowance of part of it. |
(3)When the Vice-Chancellor makes an announcement under sub-paragraph (a) or sub-paragraph (c) above, the Grace seeking the consent of the Regent House or the resolve of the Council to take no action, as the case may be, must be subject to a time limit, and the Council has determined that this limit shall be one year. Any such Grace or announcement will include a statement that it is subject to the proviso that the proposed Statute be submitted to the Privy Council by a specified date (that is to say a date one year later than the date of the announcement) after which date the Council will wish to reconsider the proposed Statute.
(4)If, after a proposed Statute has been submitted to the Privy Council, the Vice-Chancellor is informed that the Governing Body of a College wish to make further alterations of it, the procedure set out above should be followed afresh in its entirety, except in the following case. After giving public notice in accordance with sub-paragraph (3) above of receipt of the further alterations, the Vice-Chancellor may, if it is clear that the alterations are of a minor character and will not render the Statute substantially different from the Statute which was the subject of the earlier announcement under sub-paragraph (a) or sub-paragraph (c), in due course and after consultation with the Privy Council, as appropriate, give notice that no further statement on behalf of the University is required.
1Please note, the online text of paragraphs (3) and (4) was incomplete at the time of publication and has since been corrected.
The Council has received the remarks made at the Discussion on 21 January 2014 (Reporter, 6335, 2013–14, p. 343) concerning the above Reports (Reporter, 6329, 2013–14, pp. 158, 166, and 171). The following provides the Council’s response to the remarks made on all three Reports, as some of the remarks cover similar topics.
Professor Evans queries whether the amendments to the role of the Council’s Executive Committee, made in response to the recommendations of the Council’s Woolf Inquiry Working Group, should have been put to the Regent House for approval. Whilst the Council agrees that decisions in this area need to be taken with great care, the Council is content that the extension of the Committee’s role in reviewing donations to include the scrutiny of other funding is not of itself controversial. If there are any significant changes to policy in this area, the Regent House will be consulted.
In response to Dr de Lacey’s first point, the Cambridge Fringes Joint Development Control Committee, comprising members of Cambridge City Council, South Cambridgeshire District Council, and Cambridgeshire County Council, resolved to grant outline planning consent in August 2012. However, the County Council itself does not actually grant planning consent and separate consents within their respective areas were therefore granted by the City and District Councils.
With regard to the issue of the boundary between Girton Parish and Cambridge City: the North West Cambridge Development site is a 150ha site, and is located in the administrative boundaries of both the City Council and the South Cambridgeshire District Council. Approximately 90ha of land was released for development to meet the University’s needs through the North West Cambridge Area Action Plan (2009), which included a review of the Green Belt boundary. Following a review by a planning inspector, the Green Belt boundary was redrawn; the land referred to as the ‘Girton Gap’ by Dr de Lacey is a defined Green Belt area and the boundary cannot be changed by the University as landowner or planning applicant, or by the local authorities. The boundary could only be changed by a further Green Belt policy review held before a government-appointed inspector.
The University has sought to develop the entire development site as a coherent whole, though there will be residents on the site that live within different administrative boundaries. Differences between the services offered by adjoining local authorities exist across the country, where administrative boundaries interface.
Professor Evans’ remarks concerning the publication of monographs will be considered by the General Board as the policy on Open Access develops.
In response to the points made by Dr de Lacey and Mr Goode on pay, the Council and the General Board through their Human Resources Committee regularly review the pay of all staff and will continue to monitor emerging developments in this area.
The Council is submitting a Grace for the approval of its Annual Report (which includes the General Board’s Report) (Grace 1, p. 409).
This section is available to current staff and students of the University of Cambridge. Please log in.
The University of Cambridge’s current Environmental Policy dates from 2008 (http://www.environment.admin.cam.ac.uk/policy-overview). A review committee, chaired by the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional Affairs, is embarking on a review of the University’s Environmental Policy. The outcome will be an environmental sustainability policy covering teaching, research, and administrative functions of the University, set in the context of sustainability in the wider sense and reflecting that the University has policies in other areas of sustainability.
In the consultation phase, the committee is seeking the views of the University on key objectives, targets, and matters relating to implementation. An online questionnaire, with a closing date of 19 March 2014, is open to all members of the University at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CUenvironmental-policy-review.
In addition, focus groups are being held as part of the review process. Anybody wishing to participate in these should register their interest by emailing environment@admin.cam.ac.uk.
Alternatively, written evidence, including name, contact details, and indicating whether this is an individual or institutional response, can be submitted by 19 March 2014 to environment@admin.cam.ac.uk or Environment and Energy, 74 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RW.
A summary of the responses to the questionnaire and all written evidence will be published following the review process.
Grace 9 associated with the Second Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on new pay and grading arrangements for non-clinical staff (Reporter, 6002, 2004–05, p. 745) provides for the Council to publish at least annually (i) anonymized statistical information about the number of non-clinical staff on each step of the single spine, for the institution as a whole and by School (or equivalent), according to staff category, grade, and gender; and (ii) anonymized information by School (or equivalent), according to staff category, grade, and gender, of additional payments made under the regulations for payments additional to stipend, but excluding payments for clinical responsibility.
Owing to an oversight, the statistical information for 2011–12 was not published in 2012–13. Accordingly the Council now publishes information for 2011–12 showing in the tables below the payments that have been made. All data is to 31 July 2012.
There was also an error in Tables 11(a) and 11(b) of the statistical information for 2012–13 published on 15 January 2014 (Reporter, 6333, 2013–14, p. 261); when assigning Departments to Schools a small number of market supplements were plotted incorrectly against Arts and Humanities and have now been correctly attributed to Humanities and Social Sciences. Corrected Tables 11(a) and 11(b) are therefore now published below.
Tables 1–9 show the number of non-clinical staff on each step of the single spine by grade and gender for (a) academic including research staff and (b) academic-related and assistant staff. Table 1 shows the data for the institution as a whole; Tables 2–9 show the data by School (or equivalent). In each table contribution points on the single spine are shaded.
Table 10 shows (a) pensionable and (b) non-pensionable payments made under the regulations for payments additional to stipend for each School (or equivalent) according to staff category (academic and non-academic) and by grade and gender, including bonus payments.
Under the arrangements introduced by the Second Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on new pay and grading arrangements for non-clinical staff (Reporter, 6002, 2004–05, p. 745), market supplements may be made to secure the recruitment or retention of an individual member of staff.
Grace 7 associated with the Second Joint Report provides for the Council to publish anonymized statistical information on all awards of market supplements at least annually by staff category, grade, gender, and School (or equivalent).
Accordingly, the Council publishes below information for 2011–12 on the market supplements that have been made. Table 11(a) shows the total number of staff in receipt of market supplements; Table 11(b) shows the number of awards made between 1 October 2011 and 31 July 2012.
In order to improve scrutiny, accountability, and transparency in the award of market supplements the Council established a Remuneration Committee (Reporter, 6093, 2007–08, p. 282) which considers, as part of its remit, the determination of market supplements over 10% for professorial and equivalent staff.
Staff statistical information for 2011–12
Staff statistical information for 2012–13: corrected Tables 11(a) and 11(b)