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CONGREGATION 20 May
Notice
The meeting of Congregation is cancelled. The sole business comprises questions to which
no opposition has been notified and in respect of which no request for an adjournment has
been received, and Mr Vice-Chancellor will accordingly declare the resolutions carried
without
a meeting under the provisions of Sect. 7 (1) of Statute IV (Supplement (1) to
Gazette No. 4633, 9 October 2002, p. 100).
1 Declaration of approval of Resolution approving the
conferment of a Degree by Diploma
That the conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Civil Law by Diploma upon THE RT. HON.
CHRISTOPHER FRANCIS PATTEN, CH, PC, MA, Honorary Fellow of Balliol College,
Chancellor-elect of the University, be approved.
2 Declaration of approval of Resolution approving the
reallocation of space from Chemistry to the University Museum of Natural History
That approximately 640 sq.m. of floor space in the University Museum and Inorganic
Chemistry buildings be reallocated from Chemistry to the University Museum of Natural
History, part of the space to be used for a joint University Museum and Pitt Rivers Museum
visitor facility, on occupation of the Chemistry Research Laboratory by the Department of
Chemistry.
3 Declaration of approval of Resolution concerning
the
implementation for externally funded academic-related staff of the Fixed-Term Employees
Regulations
That this House endorse the introduction of the proposed new open-ended, externally funded
contract of employment for certain academic-related staff, and associated redundancy
procedures, and in particular agree that Council should appoint a Redundancy Committee in
accordance with section 10 of Statute XII, Part B to deal with the termination of such
contracts for reason of redundancy.
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CONVOCATION 25 June
Admission and Installation of the Chancellor of the
University
A Convocation will be held in the Sheldonian Theatre on Wednesday, 25 June, at 11.30
a.m.,
for the purpose of admitting THE RT. HON. CHRISTOPHER FRANCIS PATTEN, CH,
PC,
MA, Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, to office as the Chancellor of the University, and
conferring upon him the Degree of Doctor of Civil Law by Diploma. The Encaenia
ceremony
will follow immediately upon the conclusion of the installation.
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CONGREGATION 25 June
1 Encaenia
Mr Vice-Chancellor invites Pro-Vice-Chancellors, Heads of Houses, holders of the Oxford
Degrees of Doctor of Divinity, Civil Law, Medicine, Letters, Science, and Music, the
Proctors, the Assessor, the Public Orator, the Professor of Poetry, the Registrar, the
outgoing
President of the Oxford University Student Union, and the Presidents of the Junior and
Middle
Common Rooms of Lincoln College, Keble College, and Kellogg College (as being the
colleges
of the Proctors and the Assessor) to partake of Lord Crewe's Benefaction to the University,
meeting him in the Hall of Brasenose College at 10.45 a.m. on
Wednesday,
25 June. Thence they will go in procession to the Sheldonian Theatre, where will be spoken
the Oration in Commemoration of the Benefactors of the University according to the intention
of the Right Honourable Nathaniel, Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham.
Note. Pro-Vice-Chancellors, Heads of Houses, and Doctors
who
propose to accept Mr Vice-Chancellor's invitation, and to be present in the Sheldonian
Theatre, are requested to inform his Secretary at the University Offices,
Wellington
Square (telephone (2)70243; e-mail: alison.miles@admin.ox.ac.uk) not later than
Wednesday, 18 June. They are reminded that, while academic dress of other
universities may (if desired) be worn at the Encaenia Garden Party, the appropriate Oxford
academic dress should always be worn at the partaking of Lord Crewe's Benefaction and at
the Encaenia Ceremony.
2 Honorary Degrees
Doctor of Civil Law
THE RT. HON. BARONESS O'NEILL OF BENGARVE, CBE, MA (MA Cambridge;
PH.D.
Harvard), FBA, F.MED.SCI., Honorary Fellow of Nuffield and Somerville Colleges,
Principal
of Newnham College, Cambridge
Doctor of Letters
PROFESSOR MARY DOUGLAS, CBE, B.SC., MA, D.PHIL., FBA, Honorary Fellow of
St
Anne's College, Emeritus Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern
University
Doctor of Science
PROFESSOR DAME JULIA HIGGINS, DBE, MA, D.PHIL., FRS, F.R.ENG., Honorary
Fellow of Somerville College, Professor of Polymer Science and Director of the Graduate
School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Imperial College of Science, Technology and
Medicine, University of London
SIR PAUL NURSE (B.SC. Birmingham; PH.D. East Anglia), FRS, Honorary Fellow of
Linacre College, Chief Executive, Cancer Research UK, and President-elect of Rockefeller
University, New York
PROFESSOR JEAN-PIERRE SERRE, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France
Doctor of Music
PLACIDO DOMINGO, KBE, FRCM, opera singer, conductor, and administrator
¶ Arrangements for admission to the Sheldonian Theatre, which will be by ticket
only, are published in `Notices' below.
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