No 6561
Wednesday 2 October 2019
Vol cl No 3
pp. 18–32
8 October, Tuesday. Full Term begins. Discussion in the Senate-House at 2 p.m. (see below).
20 October, Sunday. Preacher before the University at 11.15 a.m., The Rev’d N. G. P. Gumbel, T, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Brompton. End of first quarter of Michaelmas Term.
22 October, Tuesday. Discussion in the Senate-House at 2 p.m.
26 October, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 11 a.m.
1 November, Friday. All Saints’ Day. Scarlet Day.
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Discussions (Tuesdays at 2 p.m.) |
Congregations (Saturdays unless otherwise stated) |
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8 October |
26 October, at 11 a.m. |
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22 October |
30 November, at 2 p.m. |
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5 November |
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19 November |
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10 December |
The Vice-Chancellor invites those qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 105) to attend a Discussion in the Senate-House, on Tuesday, 8 October 2019 at 2 p.m., for the discussion of:
1. Topic of concern: The University response to the climate crisis beyond divestment (Reporter, 6552, 2018–19, p. 694).
2. Second-stage Report of the Council, dated 12 June 2019, on the construction of a new Heart and Lung Research Institute on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (Reporter, 6555, 2018–19, p. 806).
3. Report of the Council, dated 24 September 2019, on the period of appointment for the next external member of Council (Reporter, 6560, 2019–20, p. 11).
Further information on Discussions, including details on format and attendance, is provided at https://www.governance.cam.ac.uk/governance/decision-making/discussions/.
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that The Rev’d Tom Clammer, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, formerly Canon Precentor of Salisbury Cathedral, has been appointed as Preacher at the annual Commemoration of John Mere, to be held in St Benedict’s Church at 11.45 a.m. on Tuesday, 21 April 2020.
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah, M.A., Ph.D., FRSL, Honorary Fellow of Clare College and Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University, has been appointed to deliver the next Leslie Stephen Lecture. Professor Appiah is expected to lecture on Thursday, 12 November 2020. Further details will be published in due course.
The Council has received the remarks made at the Discussion on 22 January 2019 (Reporter, 6535, 2018–19, p. 380) concerning the above Report (Reporter, 6532, 2018–19, p. 297). It apologises for the delay in providing this response.
The Council agrees with the speakers that transparency in senior pay is an important means of ensuring fairness across levels of pay within this institution and in the public sector as a whole. The Council’s Remuneration Committee has sought to identify the best way in which greater transparency can be achieved, whilst taking account of considerations of data privacy and the potentially adverse consequences of more external visibility of pay packages offered by this University. The Council has accepted the Committee’s recommendations and as a result will make amendments to the Remuneration Committee’s new terms of reference (included as Appendix III to the Report), summarised below. The updated terms of reference will be submitted for approval to the Remuneration Committee and the Council early in the Michaelmas Term, and published in the Reporter once finalised.
•For Pro-Vice-Chancellors, whose salary in that role is calculated via a formula recently re-approved by Council, the Council (rather than the Remuneration Committee) will approve market pay awards on appointment, and any subsequent change to such awards. The base (non-market pay) component of a Pro-Vice-Chancellor’s salary will rise in line with the agreed increase in the single salary spine.
•For the remaining senior post-holders identified in the Report (i.e. the Chief Financial Officer, the Registrary, the Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations, and the Director of Information Services), when the appointment process has concluded, the Council will be informed of the salary, within the range, on which the individual has been appointed. It will also be informed of the range of salary increases of the remaining senior post-holders in an anonymised form (to enable transparency on the scale of such rises, compared to any increase in academic or other staff salaries). Under the terms of reference set out in Appendix III to the Report, the Council already determines the salary range for those post-holders prior to recruitment.
The Council draws attention to its annual remuneration report, which provides detailed information on pay, including the pay ratio of the Vice-Chancellor’s remuneration against the median of all staff and a breakdown of salaries for all staff paid a base salary of over £100k (see Reporter, 6532, 2018–19, p. 284 for the 2017–18 report). It also notes that a breakdown of senior salaries in £5k bands is published by the University, as required by the Higher Education Senior Staff Remuneration Code. This is provided in the notes to the accounts, which are published with the Financial Statements (see note 13 in the notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 July 2018, Reporter, 6530, 2018–19, p. 234). The Council has recently approved a policy on payments to external members of University bodies and committees, which will be available online to those with Raven access from Michaelmas Term 2019.
The Council is submitting a Grace (Grace 1, p. 26) for the approval of the recommendations of this Report.
Further to the Vice-Chancellor’s Notice dated 2 August 2019 (Reporter, 6558, 2018–19, p. 882), the Council has now considered the proposed amendment to Grace 4 of 24 July 2019 and has agreed to submit it.
The Council notes that the amendment is in two parts. The Council is willing to accept paragraph (1), which changes the date for implementation of the changes proposed in the Report to 1 October 2020. It has also agreed that there should be an alternative proposal on the ballot paper, exercising its authority under Regulation 9(d) of the regulations for Graces and Congregations (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 105). This alternative proposal acknowledges the Council’s support for paragraph (1) and recognises that not all of the signatories to the amendment supported paragraph (2). The ballot paper will therefore offer the following options:
•In favour of the Grace in its original form
•In favour of the Grace as amended by paragraphs (1) and (2) of the amendment
•In favour of the Grace as amended by paragraph (1) of the amendment only
The ballot shall be held in accordance with the Single Transferable Vote Regulations (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 114) and will follow the timetable already published for the separate ballot on Grace 5 of 24 July 2019 (Reporter, 6560, 2019–20, p. 5). The deadline for flysheets will therefore be 1 p.m. on Friday, 8 November 2019 and voting will open at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, 19 November 2019 and close at 5 p.m. on Friday, 29 November 2019.
Agreement has been reached on the salary arrangements for clinical academic staff with effect from 1 April 2019. Following a recent meeting of the Board of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association, the Clinical Academic Staff Salaries Committee has agreed to translate the award of the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration into the salaries of clinical academic staff. The increase, from 1 April 2019, is two and a half percent (2.5%) on the scale points for Consultants and two per cent (2%) for Clinical Lecturers. The pay award will be backdated to 1 April 2019 for all clinical academics.
The values of National Clinical Excellence Awards (CEAs) and Local CEAs under the previous scheme (pre-April 2018), discretionary points and distinction awards remain unchanged.
The unit value of Local Clinical Excellence Awards granted between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2021 has been increased by 2.5% from 1 April 2019 from £3,016 to £3,092.
In accordance with the principle that the remuneration of clinical academic staff in Cambridge should be broadly comparable with that of equivalent staff in other UK medical schools, the General Board has agreed to approve revised stipends and scales of stipends for clinical appointments in Cambridge.
The figures currently shown in Schedule II to the regulations for stipends (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 702) are replaced with effect from 1 April 2019, and are as follows:
For Clinical Lecturers on the equivalent of the NHS ‘new’ 2016 pay system
Clinical Lecturer £27,689 by four nodal points to
£48,075
For Clinical Lecturers on the equivalent of the NHS Specialist Registrar
scales (pre-2009)
Clinical Lecturer £33,221 by eleven increments to
£57,522
Senior Lecturer / Reader scale £53,244 by six increments to
£75,318
For Clinical Lecturers on the equivalent of the NHS Specialty Registrar
scales (post-2009)
Clinical Lecturer £33,790 by eleven increments to
£59,765
Senior Lecturer / Reader scale £53,244 by six increments to
£75,318
The offices of Clinical Sub-Dean in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine, Director and Assistant Director of Studies in General Practice are part-time and stipends are determined by local agreement, with reference to the appropriate full-time Consultant salary.
The Board has also approved the following basis for calculating rates of payment for clinical responsibility for University officers with honorary NHS contracts as Consultants:
New (2003) Consultant contract:
If the integrated job plan and the honorary Consultant contract agreed with the NHS covers not less than ten Programmed Activities a week, the annual pensionable payment for clinical responsibility will amount to the difference between the officer’s prime stipend and her or his notional place on the NHS full-time Consultant salary scale.
That scale is:
With effect from 1 April 2019: £79,860, £82,361, £84,862,
£87,362, £89,856, £95,795, £101,735, £107,668
Pre-2003 Consultant contract:
If the honorary Consultant contract agreed with the NHS covers not less than six NHS sessions a week, the annual pensionable payment for clinical responsibility will amount to the difference between the officer’s prime stipend and her or his notional place on the NHS full-time Consultant salary scale.
That scale is:
With effect from 1 April 2019: £66,306, £71,051, £75,796,
£80,541, £85,951
The draft Roll of the Regent House for the academic year 2019–20 (i.e. the list of names proposed to be placed on the Roll when it is promulgated in November) was published in the Reporter, in Special No. 1, on 1 October 2019 (see http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2019-20/special/01/section2.shtml).
This year there are some changes to the membership of the Regent House that affect postdoctoral researchers and computer officers. Previously, certain members of the collegiate University had to hold Faculty membership in order to be eligible for Regent House membership. By Grace 1 of 27 June 2018 as amended,1 that requirement was removed. The Grace also introduced a new criterion that requires those in class (iii) (Research Associates and Computer Associates in Grades I, II and III) to have held their current appointment, or any other role qualifying them for Regent House membership, for a total period of at least three years continuously prior to the date of promulgation of the Roll. These changes take effect from the Roll to be promulgated on 6 November 2019. Further, it should be noted that the age limit on membership of the Regent House for certain classes of membership, including College Fellows, is still in place pending approval of the amending Statute effecting its removal by Her Majesty in Council (Reporter, 2019–20, 6560, p. 5 and Statutes and Ordinances, p. 5).
Members of the Regent House are asked to check the list and to make sure that their entries are correct. They should note that the Roll constitutes the list of eligible voters for any elections to the Council or ballots that may be called during the year until the next promulgation of the Roll the following November). Notice of any corrections or amendments should be sent in writing to the Registrary at the Old Schools (email: roll.enquiries@admin.cam.ac.uk) as soon as possible; any corrections received by Monday, 21 October 2019 will be incorporated in the definitive Roll, which is to be promulgated on 6 November 2019.
1As approved by ballot in October 2018 (Reporter, 6524, 2018–19, p. 94).
Members of the Regent House are reminded that online voting is the default voting method in ballots of the Regent House. On the occasion of a ballot, those on the Roll of the Regent House (see above) will receive an email alert shortly after voting opens, containing links to the ballot information on the governance site and to the voting portal.
If members wish to receive, or to continue to receive, hardcopy voting papers and supporting materials, they should submit a request to opt out of online voting by 5 p.m. on Saturday, 2 November 2019. Requests to receive hardcopy voting materials should be sent to ballots@admin.cam.ac.uk or to the University Draftsman at the Old Schools, and include confirmation of the voter’s CRSid and the College or Departmental postal address to which voting materials should be sent. Requests to opt out received by 2 November 2019 will be effective until the promulgation of the Roll in November 2020. Further information on ballots of the Regent House is available on the University governance website at https://www.governance.cam.ac.uk/ballots/rh/.
The 2019 edition of the University’s Statutes and Ordinances is now available online in pdf format at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/; the html version will be available there in due course.
The Reprographics Centre in the Old Schools has agreed to produce copies for the University at a cost of £15 for a thermal-bound, two-volume copy. Orders for these are being collated by the Registrary’s Office until 31 October 2019 and should be sent – clearly stating the contact name, Department or College, number of copies required, and delivery address – by email to university.draftsman@admin.cam.ac.uk. Copies required after the end of October should be placed directly with Reprographics by emailing the above information to reprographics.enquiries@admin.cam.ac.uk.
The lecture-list for 2019–20 is available at https://www.timetable.cam.ac.uk. Queries regarding lecture-lists and their availability should be directed to the Department concerned.
The Cambridge University Reporter is published weekly, usually on Wednesdays, during the Term. Special issues, including the preliminary and promulgated Rolls of the Regent House, the list of University officers, members of the Faculties, Fellows of the Colleges, and members of University bodies (committees, boards, syndicates, etc.) are also published during the academic year.
Notices for publication in the Reporter should be sent, preferably by email (reporter.editor@admin.cam.ac.uk), to the Editor, Cambridge University Reporter, The Old Schools, Cambridge, CB2 1TN (tel. 01223 332298). Items for publication should be sent as early as possible in the week before publication; short notices will be accepted up to 4 p.m. on Friday for publication the following Wednesday. Information on format and submissions is available at https://www.reporter.admin.cam.ac.uk/content-and-submissions. Inclusion is at the discretion of the Editor.
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The University Combination Room is open for the use of current members and retired members formerly on the Roll of the Regent House. Visiting academics may also be issued with access cards on nomination by their College or Department. The Combination Room will be open from Monday to Friday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., unless notified otherwise in the Reporter.
Details of how to gain access to the University Combination Room can be found at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/combinationroom/access.html
An online resource on the governance of the University is available at https://www.governance.cam.ac.uk (log in via Raven to access restricted content). With detailed information on the University’s governance structure, decision-making bodies, processes, and instruments of governance, the site is designed to help University members understand and engage with the governance processes of the University. The site also contains papers, core documents, and membership information for the University Council, the General Board, the Audit Committee, the Finance Committee, and various other University committees.
Comments and queries about the site should be sent to the Reporter team by email to governance@admin.cam.ac.uk. Queries on the work of individual committees or the availability of minutes or papers should be addressed to the relevant committee secretary.