No 6409
Wednesday 16 December 2015
Vol cxlvi No 14
pp. 286–301
The General Board have approved an amendment to Schedule I of the examination requirements for matriculation.
Paragraph 2.
By adding to the list of requirements the following:
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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences |
One from Mathematics, Biology, or Chemistry |
The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Education, have approved draft regulations for a revised Preliminary Examination for Part II of the Education Tripos, and a revised Education Tripos, with effect from 1 October 2017, as set out in the Annex to this Notice.
The introduction of these revised regulations is in response to a review by the General Board of the Faculty of Education in 2012 which made recommendations about the Faculty’s undergraduate education and the teaching that supports it. The revised regulations retain the principal objectives, teaching approaches, and assessment procedures of the existing Education Tripos. They reduce the available pathways from ten to three – Education, psychology, and learning; Education, policy, and international development; Education, English, drama, and the arts. The revised regulations offer strengthened provision in research training throughout the degree, and increase the scope for interdisciplinary study through the borrowing of papers.
The Preliminary Examination for Part II will be offered to candidates transferring in to the Education Tripos in their second year of study. It will closely reflect the requirements for Part I of the Tripos, but will offer the opportunity for candidates to choose to offer Education papers from the Preliminary Examination to Part I of the Tripos where it is considered appropriate for candidates to consolidate their knowledge of Education prior to undertaking Part II of the Tripos.
The new Part Ia will give candidates the skills training and other forms of transitional teaching that will equip them for the later parts of the Tripos. It will also introduce them to current issues in research via a series of presentations by senior researchers, including Readers and Professors, in the Faculty. Candidates for Part Ia will be required to sit four papers. Two will be compulsory for all candidates, while the optional papers will provide candidates with an introduction to the disciplines specific to their chosen pathway. Papers will be a mixture of three-hour written examinations, or two-hour written examinations with submitted coursework, or submitted coursework. Candidates may have the opportunity to borrow papers relevant to their chosen pathway.
Candidates will be required to offer five papers. Two of these papers will be core papers to be offered by all candidates, one of which will be a project report on designing educational research, which will give candidates training and experience in research methods in preparation for the compulsory dissertation in Part II. There will also be a series of optional papers from which candidates will choose one; each pathway will have a mixture of compulsory and optional papers, which may include borrowed papers.
Candidates will be required to offer five papers. Each candidate will take a compulsory paper specific to their pathway. There will be a series of optional papers on ‘Issues in education’, from which candidates must select two. As with the current Tripos, all candidates will be required to offer a dissertation of 8,000–10,000 words on a topic related to the investigation and analysis of an educational problem. The fifth paper can be a further optional or borrowed paper relevant to their pathway.
The Preliminary Examination for Part I of the Education Tripos shall be held under the Old Regulations for the last time in 2017.
The examinations for Part Ia will be available for study from 1 October 2017, and will be examined for the first time in 2018.
The examinations for Part Ib of the Education Tripos shall be held under the Old Regulations for the last time in 2018. The amended structure for Part Ib of the Tripos will be available to study from 1 October 2018, and will be examined for the first time in 2019.
The examinations for Part II of the Education Tripos shall be held under the Old Regulations for the last time in 2019, except that candidates studying Education and Modern and Medieval Languages who choose the year abroad option may be examined for the last time in 2020. The amended structure for Part II of the Tripos will be available to study from 1 October 2019, and will be examined for the first time in 2020.
A. By replacing the special regulations for the Preliminary Examination in Education (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 255) with the following:
1. There shall be a Preliminary Examination for Part II of the Education Tripos.
2. The examination shall comprise three sections, as set out below. All candidates shall offer:
(a)the examination requirements for Section I;
(b)the examination requirement for the appropriate pathway as laid out in Section II;
(c)two papers chosen from Section III.
Section I
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Paper 1 |
Designing educational research |
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Paper 2 |
Emergence of educational thinking and systems |
Section II
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Paper 3 |
Formal and informal contexts of learning |
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Paper 4 |
International issues in inclusion and diversity in education |
One paper chosen from the following:
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Paper 5 |
International literatures, arts, and cultures |
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Paper 6 |
Theatre, practice, and production |
Section III
Critical debates in education: an introduction (also serves as Paper 1 of Part Ia of the Education Tripos)
Language, communication, and literacies (also serves as Paper 2 of Part Ia of the Education Tripos)
Experience of childhood and youth (also serves as Paper 3 of Part Ib of the Education Tripos)
Education, global inequalities, and social justice (also serves as Paper 4 of Part Ib of the Education Tripos)
International literatures, arts, and cultures (also serves as Paper 6 of Part Ib of the Education Tripos)
Learning and human development (also serves as Paper 5 of Part Ib of the Education Tripos)
Poetics, aesthetics, and criticism (also serves as Paper 6 of Part Ia of the Education Tripos)
Drama, production, and its contexts (also serves as Paper 7 of Part Ia of the Education Tripos)
A paper chosen from the published list for the relevant pathway for Part Ia and Part Ib of the Tripos
Statistics and methods (also serves as paper SOC5 of the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos, Paper 7 of Part Ib, and Paper 3 of Part II of the Education Tripos)
3. The examination for each paper in the Preliminary Examination for Part II of the Education Tripos will be by the same method as the equivalent paper in Part Ia or Part Ib of the Education Tripos, as applicable.
4. No candidate shall offer any paper, dissertation, or other exercise that he or she has previously offered in any University examination.
B. By inserting the following regulations for the Education Tripos (New Regulations):
1. The Education Tripos shall consist of three Parts: Part Ia, Part Ib, and Part II; a separate class-list shall be published for each Part.
2. The following may present themselves as candidates for Part Ia:
(a)a student who has kept one term, provided that three complete terms have not passed after her or his first term of residence;
(b)a student who has obtained honours in another Honours Examination in the year next after so obtaining honours, provided that nine complete terms have not passed after her or his first term of residence.
3. The following may present themselves as candidates for Part Ib:
(a)a student who has obtained honours in Part Ia of the Education Tripos, in the year next after so obtaining honours, provided that he or she has kept four terms, provided that nine complete terms have not passed after her or his first term of residence;
(b)a student who has obtained honours in another Honours Examination in the year next after so obtaining honours, provided that twelve complete terms have not passed after her or his first term of residence.
4. The following may present themselves as candidates for honours in Part II provided that they have kept seven terms and that twelve complete terms have not passed after their first term of residence:
(a)a student who has obtained honours in Part Ib of the Education Tripos, in the year next after so obtaining honours;
(b)a student who has obtained honours in any Honours Examination other than Part Ib of the Education Tripos, in the year next or next but one after so obtaining honours.
5. No student shall be a candidate for any Part and also for another Honours Examination, in the same term.
6. No student who has been a candidate for any Part shall again be a candidate for the same Part. For any parts of the Tripos, no candidate shall offer any paper, dissertation, or other exercise that he or she has previously offered in any University examination.
7. The Faculty Board of Education shall have power to issue from time to time supplementary regulations defining or limiting all or any of the subjects of examination, and to modify, alter, or withdraw such supplementary regulations as occasion may require, provided that due care is taken to give sufficient notice of any change.
8. Public notice of any variable subjects for the examinations in any year shall be given by the Faculty Board of Education before the end of the Easter Term in the year next preceding the examination to which they apply; provided that the Board shall have the power of subsequently issuing amendments if they have due reason for doing so, and if they are satisfied that no student’s preparation for the examination is adversely affected.
9. Not later than the first day of Full Michaelmas Term each year the Faculty Board of Education shall publish by Notice in the Faculty, details of the coursework, performances, workshops, and practical examinations to be undertaken by candidates for each Part of the Tripos during the ensuing academical year.
10. The Faculty Board shall nominate such number of Examiners as they deem sufficient to conduct the examinations. The Faculty Board shall also have power to nominate one or more Assessors to assist the Examiners in any subject of the Tripos. Assessors shall propose questions in the papers or parts of papers assigned to them by the Examiners, shall mark the answers of the candidates in those papers or parts of papers, and shall advise the Examiners on the performance of candidates in the examination. Assessors may be summoned to meetings of the Examiners for the purpose of consultation and advice. At the discretion of the examiners, the examination may include an oral examination on any coursework submitted.
11. In the class-lists for each Part of the Tripos, the names of the candidates who obtain honours shall be arranged in three classes, of which the second shall be divided into two divisions. In addition the Examiners may affix a mark of distinction to the names of candidates placed in the first class whose work is of special merit. The names in the first and third classes and each division of the second class shall be arranged in alphabetical order.
12. The Examination for Part Ia shall comprise two sections as set out below. Each candidate shall offer the examination requirements set out in Section I and the examination requirements for a single pathway as set out in Section II. At the discretion of the Examiners the examination may include an oral examination on the coursework submitted under Section I.
Section I. Education
Section I consists of two papers, examined by a two-hour written paper and the submission of coursework as shall from time to time be determined by the Faculty Board of Education. Details of the work required shall be published by the Faculty Board of Education not later than the beginning of the Michaelmas Term preceding the examination.
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Paper 1 |
Critical debates in education: an introduction |
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Paper 2 |
Language, communication, and literacies |
Section II. Pathway-specific papers
Candidates must offer the requirements from only one pathway. The scheme of examination shall be as specified in Regulation 13, except for borrowed papers where a candidate is examined in accordance with the requirements as set out in the regulations for that Tripos. Where stated, some papers are examined by means other than a single written paper. For papers offered by the Faculty of Education, the Faculty Board of Education shall specify arrangements for the submission of coursework, the sitting of practical examinations, or performances or workshops not later than the beginning of the Michaelmas Term preceding the examination.
All candidates shall offer the following two papers:
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Paper 3 |
Learning and human development |
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and |
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Paper 4 |
Introduction to psychology (also serves as Paper PBS1 of the Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Tripos) |
All candidates shall offer the following paper:
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Paper 5 |
Education, global inequalities, and social justice |
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and |
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One paper chosen from the following list, which shall be examined in accordance with the examination requirements as set out in the regulations for that Tripos: |
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Human geography (also serves as Paper I of Part Ia of the Geographical Tripos) |
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Modern societies I: introduction to sociology (also serves as Paper SOC1 of the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos) |
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Social anthropology: the comparative perspective (also serves as Paper SAN1 of the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos) |
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International relations I (also serves as Paper POL2 of the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos) |
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Analysis of politics (also serves as Paper POL1 of the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos) |
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All candidates shall offer the following paper:
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Paper 6 |
Poetics, aesthetics, and criticism |
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and |
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One paper from the following two options: |
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Paper 7 |
Drama production and its contexts |
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or |
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Paper 8 |
Literature and culture |
13. Each paper in Section II of Part Ia shall consist of a two-hour written examination and the submission of coursework as shall from time to time be determined by the Faculty Board of Education, except for borrowed papers. Details of the work required shall be published by the Faculty Board of Education not later than the beginning of the Michaelmas Term preceding the examination. The exceptions to this are paper 4, paper 5, paper 6, and paper 8. Papers 4, 6, and 8 shall consist of one three-hour examination, and paper 5 shall consist of coursework as specified by the Faculty Board. Details of the work required shall be published by the Faculty Board of Education not later than the beginning of the Michaelmas Term preceding the examination.
14. The examination for Part Ib shall comprise three sections, as set out below. The scheme of examination shall be as specified in Regulations 14 and 15, except for borrowed papers where a candidate is examined in accordance with the requirements as set out in the regulations for that Tripos. Candidates shall offer:
(a)the examination requirements set out in Section I;
(b)one paper taken from the examination requirements for Section II;
(c)two papers from the requirements relating to their pathway, as set out in Section III.
Section I
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Paper 1 |
Designing education research |
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Paper 2 |
Emergence of educational thinking and systems |
Section II
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Paper 3 |
Experience of childhood and youth |
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Paper 4 |
Education, global inequalities, and social justice (also serves as Paper 5 of Part Ia of the Education Tripos) |
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Paper 5 |
Learning and human development (also serves as Paper 3 of Part Ia of the Education Tripos) |
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Paper 6 |
International literatures, arts, and cultures (also serves as a choice in Section III for students on the Education, English, drama, and the arts pathway) |
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Paper 7 |
Statistics and methods (also serves as Paper SOC5 of the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos, and Paper 3 of Part II of the Education Tripos) |
Section III
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Paper 8 |
Formal and informal contexts of learning |
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and |
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One paper chosen from a list for the pathway to be published by the Faculty Board by the end of the Easter Term next preceding the examination |
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Paper 9 |
International issues in inclusion and diversity in education |
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and |
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One paper chosen from a list for the pathway to be published by the Faculty Board by the end of the Easter Term next preceding the examination |
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Each candidate shall offer two papers from the following:
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Paper 6 |
International literatures, arts, and cultures |
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Paper 10 |
Theatre, practice, and production |
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One paper chosen from a list for the pathway to be published by the Faculty Board by the end of the Easter Term next preceding the examination |
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15. Paper 1 shall be examined by submission of a project report of between 4,000 and 5,000 words on a subject related to designing educational research. The proposed title shall be submitted through the Undergraduate Office to the Secretary of the Faculty Board by the final day of full Michaelmas Term. The report shall be submitted by candidates through the Undergraduate Office to the Secretary of the Faculty Board by a date specified by the Faculty Board not later than the beginning of the Michaelmas Term preceding the examination. Each report shall be in typescript, unless previous permission has been obtained from the Faculty Board to present it in manuscript; it shall bear the candidate’s examination number and shall be accompanied by a brief synopsis.
Candidates will be required to declare that the report is their own work and that it does not contain material already used to any substantial extent for a comparable purpose. At the discretion of the Examiners, a candidate may be examined viva voce on her or his report.
16. Papers 2, 6, and 8 shall be examined by one three-hour written examination. Papers 3, 5, 9, and 10 shall be examined by one two-hour written examination and the submission of coursework as specified by the Faculty Board from time to time. Details of the work required shall be published by the Faculty Board of Education not later than the beginning of the Michaelmas Term preceding the examination. Paper 4 shall consist of coursework as specified by the Faculty Board from time to time.
17. The examination for Part II shall comprise four sections, as set out below. The scheme of examination shall be as specified in Regulations 18 and 19, except for borrowed papers where a candidate is examined in accordance with the requirements as set out in the regulations for that Tripos. Candidates shall offer five papers in total, as follows:
(a)the examination requirements set out in Section I;
(b) two or three papers taken from Section II;
(c)the examination requirement for the relevant pathway set out in Section III;
(d)candidates offering four papers under Regulation 15(a) to (c) shall offer one further paper from the requirements for their pathway as set out in Section IV.
Section I
Candidates shall submit a report on a topic related to the investigation and analysis of an educational problem. The report shall be submitted under the conditions set out in Regulation 19. At the discretion of the Examiners, a candidate may be examined viva voce on her or his dissertation
Section II. Issues in education
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Paper 1 |
Formal and informal contexts of learning |
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Paper 2 |
Social theory and education |
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Paper 3 |
Statistics and methods (also serves as Paper SOC 5 of the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos and Paper 7 of Part Ib of the Education Tripos) |
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Paper 4 |
International issues in inclusion and diversity |
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Paper 5 |
Children’s literature (also serves as Paper 12 of the Education, English, drama, and the arts pathway in Section III of Part II of the Education Tripos) |
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Paper 6 |
A dissertation in a topic relating to the pathway specialism |
Additional papers may be offered as announced by the Faculty Board from time to time. Examination requirements for such papers shall be announced simultaneously. Details of the work required shall be published by the Faculty Board of Education not later than the beginning of the Michaelmas Term preceding the examination.
Section III
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Paper 10 |
Education, neuroscience, and society |
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Paper 11 |
Critical debates in education, policy, and international development |
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Paper 12 |
Children’s literature (also serves as Paper 5, Section II of Part II of the Education Tripos) |
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and/or |
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Paper 13 |
Performance, education, and society |
Section IV
For each pathway, a list of borrowed papers will be published annually by the Faculty Board by the end of the Easter Term next preceding the examination.
18. Papers 1, 2, and 3 shall be examined by one three-hour examination. Papers 4 and 5 shall be examined by one two-hour examination and the submission of coursework as specified by the Faculty Board from time to time. The examinations for Paper 10 and Paper 11 will each consist of one three-hour examination.
19. Each candidate shall submit the proposed topic of their dissertation under Section I and II of Part II through the Undergraduate Office to the Secretary of the Faculty Board, by a date announced by the Faculty Board not later than the beginning of the Michaelmas Term preceding the examination. The Secretary shall communicate the approval or rejection of the proposed topic to the candidate no later than the end of the Michaelmas Term preceding the examination.
The submitted report shall be of not less than 8,000 words and not more than 10,000 words, excluding notes and appendices. The report shall be submitted by candidates through the Undergraduate Office to the Secretary of the Faculty Board by a date specified by the Faculty Board not later than the beginning of the Michaelmas Term preceding the examination. Each report shall be in typescript, unless previous permission has been obtained from the Faculty Board to present it in manuscript; it shall bear the candidate’s examination number and shall be accompanied by a brief synopsis.
Candidates will be required to declare that the report is their own work and that it does not contain material already used to any substantial extent for a comparable purpose. At the discretion of the Examiners, a candidate may be examined viva voce on her or his report.
20. Any dissertation submitted for Section IV shall be submitted under the rules relating to the Tripos from which the paper is taken.
21. Candidates may not offer more than one dissertation in total under Sections II, III, and IV.
22. The examinations for the Education Tripos (New Regulations) shall be held for the first time as follows:
Part Ia in 2018
Part Ib in 2019
Part II in 2020
The General Board, on the recommendation of the Committee of Management for the Natural Sciences Tripos, have approved amendments to the regulations so as to allow the School’s move to modularization of Part II (Biological) subjects to proceed and to provide a better description of the subject previously called Neuroscience. The regulations have been amended as follows:
Regulation 26.
By removing ‘Physiology and Psychology’ and renaming ‘Neuroscience’ as ‘Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour’.
Regulation 30.
By removing the sub-section ‘Neuroscience’ and replacing it so as to read:
(a)four written papers of three hours each;
(b)a report of a research project, in printed, or typewritten form, of not more than 5,000 words, excluding tables, appendices, footnotes, and bibliography.
The report of a research project shall be on a subject either proposed by the candidate and approved by the Course Organizer or chosen by the candidate from a list of approved subjects announced by the Course Organizer, not later than the division of the Michaelmas Term. Each candidate shall either obtain the approval of the Course Organizer for the subject proposed, or notify the Course Organizer of the subject chosen from the list, not later than the end of Full Michaelmas Term. The report shall be submitted to the Course Organizer not later than the fifth day of the Full Easter Term in which the examination is to be held.
By removing the sub-section ‘Physiology and Psychology’.
Regulation 31.
By amending the first sentence of the Regulation so as to read:
31. For each subject in Part II there shall be published a separate class-list, which shall be signed by the Examiners in that subject.
The General Board have approved amendments to the Tripos regulations so as to ensure that it continues to meet the requirements of the British Psychological Society and to bring the mechanics of managing the Tripos in line with those for the Natural Sciences Tripos.
By removing the reference to footnote 3 next to the main heading ‘Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos’.
Regulation 1.
By amending the current regulation so as to read:
1. The Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos shall consist of three Parts: Part Ia, Part Ib, and Part II.
Regulation 5.
By amending the first sentence of the current regulation so as to read:
5. There shall be three separate bodies of Examiners: one for Part Ia, one for Part Ib, and one for Part II.
Part I (to be re-titled Part Ia)
By amending the heading for the section currently headed Part I so as to read Part Ia and so that all further mentions of Part I are renamed Part Ia.
Regulation 12.
By amending the first sentence of Section A so as to read:
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PBS1 |
Introduction to psychology |
Part IIa (to be retitled Part Ib)
By amending the heading for the section currently headed Part IIa so as to read Part Ib and so that all further mentions of Part IIa are renamed Part Ib.
Regulation 16.
By removing the current regulation and replacing it with a revised regulation so as to read:
16. The scheme of examination for Part Ib shall be as follows:
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PBS 3. |
Social and developmental psychology |
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PBS 4. |
Cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology (lectures and practicals drawn from the subject Experimental Psychology in Part Ib of the Natural Sciences Tripos) |
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Two Optional Papers from the list published in accordance with Regulation 9 |
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Regulation 17.
By removing the current regulation and its accompanying footnote, and replacing it with a revised regulation so as to read:
17. A candidate for Part Ib shall offer four papers as follows:
(a)PBS 3;
(b)PBS 4;
(c)two further papers chosen from the list of Optional Papers published in accordance with Regulation 9,
subject to Regulation 4, any candidate who has not previously completed Part Ia of the Tripos must, except with the permission of the Committee of Management, offer PBS 1 and PBS 2 as their Optional Papers if he or she has not previously offered these papers within another Tripos.
Regulation 18.
By replacing the first sentence of the regulation so as to read:
18. There shall be an examination of three hours’ duration set for Paper PBS 3. Paper PBS 4 will be examined by one examination of three hours’ duration and a second examination of one and half hours’ duration. Other papers will be examined in accordance with the regulations set down by the Faculty or comparable authority concerned.
Regulation 19.
By removing Regulation 19 and renumbering all subsequent regulations.
Part IIb (to be retitled Part II)
By amending the heading for the section currently headed Part IIb so as to read Part II and so that all further mentions of Part IIb are renamed Part II.
Regulation 20 (to be renumbered Regulation 19).
By amending the regulation so as to read:
19. A student who has obtained honours in Part Ib of the Tripos in the year next after having done so, provided that he or she has kept seven terms and no more than twelve complete terms have passed after her or his first term of residence,2 may be a candidate for honours in Part II.
2See also the Regulations for Affiliated Students.
Regulation 21 (to be renumbered Regulation 20).
By amending the regulation so as to read:
20. The scheme of examination for Part II shall be as follows.
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PBS 5. |
Research dissertation as prescribed in Regulation 22. |
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Three further Papers from the list approved by the Head of Department and published in accordance with Regulation 9 |
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Regulation 23.
By removing the existing Regulation 23 and renumbering all subsequent regulations.
Regulation 24 (to be renumbered Regulation 22).
By amending sub-paragraph (b) of the current regulation so as to read:
(b)The research dissertation shall contain full references to any sources used in its composition, and shall be of not more than 7,000 words in length, including footnotes but excluding any tables, figures, bibliography, and appendices.
By removing the existing Regulation 25.