No 6734
Wednesday 13 March 2024
Vol cliv No 24
pp. 437–446
15 March, Friday. Full Term ends.
19 March, Tuesday. Discussion by videoconference at 2 p.m. (see below).
20 March, Wednesday. Last ordinary issue of the Reporter in the Lent Term.
23 March, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 10 a.m.
24 March, Sunday. Lent Term ends.
31 March, Sunday. Easter Day. Scarlet Day.
6 April, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 10 a.m.
17 April, Wednesday. Easter Term begins. First ordinary issue of the Reporter in the Easter Term.
23 April, Tuesday. Full Term begins.
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, 19 March 2024 at 2 p.m. The following items will be discussed:
1.Annual Reports and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 July 2023 (Reporter, 6731, 2023–24, p. 298).
2.First-stage Report of the Council, dated 23 February 2024, on the alteration and redevelopment of the Hutchison Building on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus site (Reporter, 6732, 2023–24, p. 419).
3.Report of the Council, dated 23 February 2024, to revise the length of co-opted membership of the Finance Committee (Reporter, 6732, 2023–24, p. 420).
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/.
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that, in the elections held from Monday, 26 February to Thursday, 29 February 2024, the following persons were elected to be the student members of the Council and the General Board in class (d):
Category (i) – President (Undergraduate) of the University of Cambridge Students’ Union:
Anderson, Sarah, F
Category (ii) – President (Postgraduate) of the University of Cambridge Students’ Union:
Bhattacharjee, Sumouli, F
Category (iii) – one student elected by and from among the students in the University:
Myall, Alex, R
Category (i) – Sabbatical officer of the University of Cambridge Students’ Union with responsibility for matters concerning undergraduate education:
Clarke, Katie, SID
Category (ii) – Sabbatical officer of the University of Cambridge Students’ Union with responsibility for matters concerning postgraduate education:
Aramandla, Neela Maadhuree, Q
Under section 67 of the Charities Act 20111, the Charity Commission has power to change the purposes of a charity after having regard to certain matters. The Commission has agreed to make a scheme to amend the Ordinance for the Chuan Lyu Fellowship and Senior Visiting Scholarship Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 811). The current purposes of the Fund do not provide a use for all of its income. The effect of the scheme (available at https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2023-24/weekly/6734/ChuanLyuFellowshipScheme.pdf) is to widen the Fund’s purposes so that, provided there are sufficient funds, the income of the Fund is not limited (as currently) to providing Research Fellowships and Senior Visiting Scholarships, but would additionally enable, at the discretion of the Managers, broader support of teaching and research in Taiwan Studies. The Council is submitting a Grace (Grace 3, p. 445) to amend Regulations 1 and 3 as well as the name of the Fund to reflect the changes being made by the scheme. The opportunity is also being taken to propose further minor amendments for approval by the University, which include changes to the composition of the Managers, and to allow for the appointment of more than one Research Fellow, Visiting Scholar or Researcher. The scheme is effective from 15 February 2024 and therefore the Grace, if approved, would take effect from that date.