No 6747
Wednesday 26 June 2024
Vol cliv No 37
pp. 704–723
26 June, Wednesday. Scarlet day. Congregation of the Regent House at 9 a.m. (General Admission).
27 June, Thursday. Scarlet day. Congregation of the Regent House at 9 a.m. (General Admission).
28 June, Friday. Scarlet day. Congregation of the Regent House at 9 a.m. (General Admission).
29 June, Saturday. Scarlet day. Congregation of the Regent House at 9 a.m. (General Admission).
9 July, Tuesday. Discussion by videoconference at 2 p.m. (see below).
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Discussions (Tuesdays at 2 p.m.) |
Congregations (at 10 a.m. unless otherwise stated) |
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9 July 16 July |
26, 27, 28 and 29 June at 9 a.m. (General Admission) 18, 19 and 20 July |
Ordinary issues of the Reporter for the remainder of the 2023–24 academic year will be published on 3, 24 and 31 July 2024. Issues will only be published on 10 and 17 July if needed for urgent items of business. The first issue of the 2024–25 academic year is currently scheduled for publication on 25 September 2024.
The Vice‑Chancellor invites members of the Regent House, University and College employees, registered students and others qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 111) to attend a Discussion by videoconference on Tuesday, 9 July 2024 at 2 p.m. The following item will be discussed:
1. Forthcoming disposal of land at West Cambridge for the Cambourne to Cambridge busway (Reporter, 6744, 2023–24, p. 626, and below).
Those wishing to join the Discussion by videoconference should email UniversityDraftsman@admin.cam.ac.uk from their University email account, providing their CRSid (if a member of the collegiate University), by 10 a.m. on the date of the Discussion to receive joining instructions. Alternatively contributors may email their remarks to contact@proctors.cam.ac.uk, copying ReporterEditor@admin.cam.ac.uk, by no later than 10 a.m. on the day of the Discussion for reading out by the Proctors,1 or may ask someone else who is attending to read the remarks on their behalf.
In accordance with the regulations for Discussions, the Chair of the Board of Scrutiny or any ten members of the Regent House2 may request that the Council arrange for one or more of the items listed for discussion to be discussed in person (usually in the Senate-House). Requests should be made to the Registrary, on paper or by email to UniversityDraftsman@admin.cam.ac.uk from addresses within the cam.ac.uk domain, by no later than 9 a.m. on the day of the Discussion. Any changes to the Discussion schedule will be confirmed in the Reporter at the earliest opportunity.
General information on Discussions is provided on the University Governance site at https://www.governance.cam.ac.uk/governance/decision-making/discussions/.
1Any comments sent by email should please begin with the name and title of the contributor as they wish it to be read out and include at the start a note of any College and/or Departmental affiliations held.
2https://www.scrutiny.cam.ac.uk/ and https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/regent_house_roll/.
Further to its Notice of 30 May 2024 (Reporter, 6744, 2023–24, p. 626), the Council has received comments on the above proposed disposal and has agreed to add this matter to the agenda of the next Discussion on 9 July 2024 (see above).
The Council has authorised the closure of the University Offices from 1 p.m. on Tuesday, 24 December 2024, until 8.30 a.m. on Thursday, 2 January 2025. The University Messenger Service will not operate during the period of closure.
The Council notes that the Fitzwilliam Museum will be open and welcoming visitors on 22 December, 27–29 December 2024 and from 2 January 2025 onwards.
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that she has received a proposal for the amendment of Grace 2 of 12 June 2024 (Reporter, 6745, 2023–24, p. 696), signed by 64 members of the Regent House as noted in the Annex below.
The proposed amendment is as follows:
That the recommendations in paragraph 14 of the Joint Report of the Council and the General Board, dated 14 May 2024, on the University’s Retirement Policy and Employer Justified Retirement Age (Reporter, 6741, 2023–24, p. 578) be replaced with the following:
That Special Ordinance C (ii) 12 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 77) be amended to read as follows, having the effect of abolishing the Employer Justified Retirement Age:
12. Subject to the provisions of Statute C and any Special Ordinance made under Statute C, a University officer shall be entitled, unless the tenure of their office is limited in accordance with the provisions of any other Statute or Ordinance or by Grace, to hold office until their employment terminates so long as they satisfactorily perform the duties of the office.
The Council will consider the proposed amendment at a meeting on 28 June 2024.
The following members of the Regent House have proposed the amendment to the Grace:
R. A. Alexander
Michael Anderson
S. M. Ansari
W. J. Astle
P. J. N. Baert
S. Baron-Cohen
E. Benvenisti
E. C. Blair
P. L. Bossaerts
R. E. Bourke
P. Brooks
M. E. Cates
P. A. Chauffaille Saffi
C. M. Clark
T. W. Clyne
T. A. Coombs
J. A. Crowcroft
E. Dimson
R. J. Dowling
G. P. Efstathiou
M. P. Eisner
G. R. Evans
N. W. Evans
R. A. Foley
E. B. French
N. J. Gay
G. F. Gilmore
M. W. Gross
T. C. Grosser
T. Gur
R. Haynes
D. A. Hodell
S. B. Holden
C. J. Humphreys
H. E. Huppert
M. Jamnik
P. A. Kattuman
A. P. A. Kent
M. H. Kramer
N. Krishnaswami
S. Kroechert
N. D. A. Lane
O. B. Linton
C. Mascolo
J. D. Mollon
A. W. Moore
B. C. J. Moore
F. Moscoso del Prado Martín
Y. Nobis
S. M. Oosthuizen
S. O’Rahilly
M. Pepper
R. Rau
I. G. Roberts
L. Sarno
S. Scholtes
W. Schultz
P. M. Sewell
J. M. Skopek
L. R. Vinx
D. T. Weinberg
B. A. Windeatt
E. Yoneki
L. A. Zaibert