Graces

Graces submitted to the Regent House on 26 September 2018

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 These Graces, unless they are withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 105) will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 5 October 2018.

1. That a Harry Desai Education Fund be established in the University, to be governed by the following regulations:1

Harry Desai Education Fund

   1. The benefaction received from Harry Desai, together with such other sums as may be received or applied for the same purpose, shall form an endowment fund called the Harry Desai Education Fund to support Graduate Students engaged in the study of teaching and education in the University.

   2. The Managers shall be responsible for the administration of the Fund and the application of its income and shall comprise the Faculty Board of Education, who may delegate any or all of their functions under these regulations to a committee not necessarily consisting wholly of members of the Board.

   3. Subject to Regulation 4, the income of the Fund shall be used to provide awards, which shall be called the Harry Desai Studentships. Arrangements for awards, including the number, tenure, and conditions of Studentships to be awarded in any given year, the expenses to be covered by an award, and the form of the application and selection processes, shall be at the discretion of the Managers, provided that Managers shall, in awarding the Studentships, give preference to the disadvantaged and also those who might otherwise be deterred from study by their financial circumstances.

   4. If the income of the Fund is insufficient to support its purposes in any financial year, it may, at the discretion of the Managers, be accumulated and added to the capital of the Fund for a period of twenty-one years from the date of the establishment of the Fund^[1] or applied in accordance with Regulation 3 in any one or more subsequent financial years.

[¹ The date of the approval of these regulations by Grace will be added as a footnote.]


2. That the Professorship of Media and Culture (established by Grace 1 of 31 January 2018) be retitled the Professorship of Media, Culture, and Environment.2

3. That the changes to Ordinances concerning matriculation requirements for certain prospective students, as set out in the Annex to the Council’s Notice dated 24 September 2018 (p. 3), be approved.

4. That Regulation 3(d) of the regulations for the Status of Master of Arts (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 172, rescinded by Grace 4 of 4 July 2018) be reinserted, to read as follows:3

(d)shall not be subject to the regulations for motor vehicles or the regulations for bicycles and boats.

5. That Regulations 1 and 4 of the regulations for the Lundgren Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 894) be amended so as to read:4

   1. The sums bequeathed to the University by Beatrice Helen Worsley, Ph.D., of Newnham College, shall form a fund called the Lundgren Fund in honour of Helge Lundgren, the income of which shall be used at least once a year to make one or more Lundgren Research Awards to persons who are registered as candidates for the Ph.D. Degree provided that they are engaged in research in a scientific subject (which term shall be taken to include mathematics).

   4. An award may be made to a person who is a registered Graduate Student of the University, provided that he or she has shown a high aptitude for research and a devotion to study, and is in need of financial assistance.

6. That Regulations 4 and 6 of the regulations for the Arnold McNair Scholarship Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 897) be amended so as to read:5

   4. The Scholarship shall be open to any member of the University who has kept at least eight terms and who is a candidate for or has been classed in Part II of the Law Tripos.

   6. The election shall be held each year at some convenient date within four weeks following the first day of General Admission to Degrees. The Electors shall take whatever steps they deem advisable to ascertain the merits of the candidates and their qualifications for pursuing further study or research in International Law. If the available income of the Fund is sufficient the Electors may elect a second Scholar.

7. That, with effect from the dates shown below, Regulation 2(a) of the regulations for the Anglia Television Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 774) be amended to read as follows:6

With immediate effect

(a)to provide a prize, to be called the Anglia Prize, which shall be awarded by the Examiners for Part IIb of the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos to the candidate for that Part who has shown the greatest distinction in the subject Archaeology;

With effect from 1 October 2019

(a)to provide a prize, to be called the Anglia Prize, which shall be awarded by the Examiners for Part IIb of the Archaeology Tripos to the candidate for that Part who has shown the greatest distinction in the subject Archaeology;

8. That, with effect from the dates shown below, Regulation 2 of the regulations for the Glyn Daniel Award (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 823) be amended to read as follows:6

With immediate effect

   2. The Award shall be made each year before the end of the Long Vacation by the Head of the Department of Archaeology or her or his deputy to a person who has achieved a distinguished performance in the subject Archaeology in Part IIb of the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos and who intends to proceed to full-time advanced study or research in that subject.

With effect from 1 October 2019

   2. The Award shall be made each year before the end of the Long Vacation by the Head of the Department of Archaeology or her or his deputy to a person who has achieved a distinguished performance in the subject Archaeology in Part IIb of the Archaeology Tripos and who intends to proceed to full-time advanced study or research in that subject.

9. That Regulation 3 of the regulations for the Mark Gregson Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 851) be amended to read as follows:6

   3. The first charge on the income of the Fund shall be the provision of a prize called the Mark Gregson Prize, which shall be awarded annually by the Examiners for the Examination for Part IIa of the Archaeology Tripos to the candidate who has shown the greatest distinction in the subject Archaeology in that examination.

10. That, with effect from the dates shown below, Regulation 2 of the regulations for the Thomas Mulvey Egyptology Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 914) be amended to read as follows:6

With immediate effect

   2. The Prize shall be awarded by the Examiners for Part IIb of the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos to a candidate taking two or more papers in Egyptology who has shown distinction in Egyptology papers in the examination in Archaeology for Part IIb of that Tripos.

With effect from 1 October 2019

   2. The Prize shall be awarded by the Examiners for Part IIb of the Archaeology Tripos to a candidate taking two or more papers in Egyptology who has shown distinction in Egyptology papers in the examination in Archaeology for Part IIb of that Tripos.

11. That Regulation 6 of the regulations for the Ridgeway-Venn Travel Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 947) be amended to read as follows:6

   6. Any member of the University in statu pupillari shall be eligible provided that:

   either (a) on the day on which the travel is due to begin the student will have completed the requirements for the B.A. Degree having obtained honours in Archaeology or Social Anthropology in at least one Part of the Archaeology Tripos or Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos; and provided that the student intends to complete the travel before the end of the academical year next following that in which he or she completed the requirements for the B.A. Degree;

   or (b) on the day on which the travel is due to begin the student has been a Graduate Student for not more than one year, working under the supervision of the Archaeology, Anthropology, and Sociology Degree Committee for the Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science; and provided that the student intends to complete the travel before the end of the academical year next following that in which he or she was admitted as a Graduate Student.

12. That Regulation 4 of the regulations for the Anthony Wilkin Studentship in Ethnology and Archaeology (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 1013) be amended to read as follows:6

   4. Members of the University shall be eligible for the Studentship, preference being given ceteris paribus to candidates who have obtained honours in Archaeology or Social Anthropology in the Archaeology Tripos or Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos or have been approved for the award of the degree of Master of Philosophy having followed a course under the supervision of the Archaeology, Anthropology, and Sociology Degree Committee for the Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science.

13. That, with effect from the dates shown below, Regulation 1 of the regulations for the Thomas Young Medal (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 1031) be amended to read as follows:6

With immediate effect

   1. The Thomas Young Medal shall be awarded to a candidate who in Part IIb of the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos has shown outstanding distinction in any branch of oriental archaeology.

With effect from 1 October 2019

   1. The Thomas Young Medal shall be awarded to a candidate who in Part IIb of the Archaeology Tripos has shown outstanding distinction in any branch of oriental archaeology.