Notices

Calendar

18 March, Tuesday. Discussion by videoconference at 2 p.m. (see below).

21 March, Friday. Full Term ends.

25 March, Tuesday. Lent Term ends.

26 March, Wednesday. Last ordinary issue of the Reporter in the Lent Term.

29 March, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 10 a.m.

Discussion on Tuesday, 18 March 2025

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, 18 March 2025 at 2 p.m. The following items will be discussed:

1. Second-stage Report of the Council, dated 25 February 2025, on the alteration and redevelopment of the Hutchison Building on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus site (Reporter, 6772, 2024–25, p. 284).

2. Reports and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 July 2024 (Reporter, 6773, 2024–25, p. 298).

3. Topic of concern to the University: Support for the Veterinary course (Reporter, 6774, 2024–25, p. 396).

4. Report of the Council, dated 4 March 2025, on a new temporary facility for the Molecular Imaging Chemistry Laboratory at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (Reporter, 6774, 2024–25, p. 399).

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/.

Grace 1 of 12 February 2025 (ACP (R) proposals): Notice of amendment

5 March 2025

The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that she has received a proposal for the amendment of Grace 1 of 12 February 2025,1 signed by 31 members of the Regent House as noted in the Annex below.

The proposed amendment is as follows:

1. That the recommendations in paragraph 12 of the Report of the General Board, dated 26 November 2024, on arrangements for the implementation of an Academic Career Pathways (Research) scheme (Reporter, 6761, 2024–25, p. 144) be approved, except that paragraph 7(d)(i) of the Report be amended to read: ‘(i) the proposal for the scheme to run termly;’.

The Council will consider the proposed amendment at its next meeting on 24 March. The ballot timetable set out in the Notice of 21 February, in which voting was to open on 20 March, is therefore withdrawn.2 The Council will publish a revised ballot timetable after its meeting on 24 March.

Annex

The following members of the Regent House have proposed the amendment to the Grace: