No 6776
Wednesday 19 March 2025
Vol clv No 25
pp. 416–424
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.
5 April, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 10 a.m.
11 April, Friday. Congregation of the Regent House at 2 p.m. (degrees in absence only).
17 April, Thursday. Easter Term begins.
20 April, Sunday. Easter Day. Scarlet Day.
24 April, Thursday. First ordinary issue of the Reporter in the Easter Term.
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, 29 April 2025 at 2 p.m. The following item will be discussed:
1. Joint Report of the Council and the General Board, dated 17 March 2025, on a change of name for the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute (see p. 421).
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/section1.shtml.
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that the Congregation called for Saturday, 3 May 2025 will now begin at the earlier time of 9.30 a.m. and not at 10 a.m. as originally announced.
The Vice-Chancellor reminds members of the University that a Congregation will be held at 2.45 p.m. on Wednesday, 25 June 2025, at which she expects to confer Honorary Degrees (see Graces 1–8, p. 422). Admission will be by ticket only and details of the arrangements and application for tickets are expected to be published in the Reporter on Wednesday, 30 April 2025.
The 2023–24 Equality and Diversity Information Report is now available on the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion website at https://www.equality.admin.cam.ac.uk/equality-reports and on the Reporter website at https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2024-25/weekly/6776/EDI-Report-2023-24.pdf. The Report provides a summary of activities and initiatives in support of the University’s Equality and Diversity priorities and presents an overview of equality information on the University’s staff and student communities. The report also incorporates the following:
•The mandatory Gender Pay Gap Report 2024, published in accordance with the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties and Public Authorities) Regulations 2017. Figures can also be viewed on the government’s gender pay gap viewing service at https://gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/viewing.
•The Equal Pay Review 2024, and the Staff Statistical Information Report 2024, both of which are published in line with commitments made to the Regent House, arising from the Second Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on new pay and grading arrangements for non-clinical staff (Reporter: 6002, 2004–05, p. 745 and 6012, 2005–06, p. 56).