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University Gazette, 10 June 2010: University Acts
COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY
Changes in Regulations
Council has made the following changes in regulations, to
come into effect on 25 June.
(a) T.H. Green Moral Philosophy Scholarships
Explanatory Note
These changes are consequential amendments to the
regulations, following approval by Her Majesty in Council of
the Statute concerning the T.H. Green Moral Philosophy
Scholarships (p. 1066).
Text of Regulations
1 In Part 2 of Council Regulations 25 of
2002, concerning trusts (Statutes, 2000, p. 644,
as redesignated as regulations by Decree (5) of 11 July 2002,
Gazette, Vol. 132, p. 1461), delete § 133
and renumber existing §§ 134–71 as
§§ 133–70.
2 This regulation shall be effective from
11 May 2010.
(b) John Gilbert Winant Visiting Professorship
of American Government
Explanatory Note
These changes are consequential amendments to the
regulations, following approval by Her Majesty in Council of
the Statute concerning the John Gilbert Winant Visiting
Professorship of American Government (p. 1066).
Text of
Regulations
1 In Sect. III of Council Regulations 24
of 2002, concerning academic and other posts
(Statutes, 2000, p. 432, as redesignated as
regulations by Decree (5) of 11 July 2002,
Gazette, Vol. 132, p. 1461) delete § 114
and renumber existing §§ 115–57 as
§§ 114–56.
2 This regulation shall be effective from
11 May 2010.
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GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL
Changes in Regulations
The General Purposes Committee has made the following
changes in regulations, to come into effect on 25 June.
(a) Establishment of Oxford Graduate Scholarship
Fund
Explanatory Note
These regulations establish the Oxford Graduate
Scholarship Fund as a permanent source of income to fund
graduate scholarships. The Fund is being established as an
enabling vehicle to support a planned and agreed major
increase in fund-raising activity in this area.
Text of Regulations
In Part 2 of Council Regulations 25 of 2002 concerning
trusts (Statutes, 2000, p. 703, as redesignated
as regulations by Decree (5) of 11 July 2002,
Gazette, Vol. 132, p. 1461), insert new §
268 as follows, and renumber existing §§
268–89 as §§ 269–90:
'§ 268. Oxford Graduate Scholarship Fund
1. The University holds Ten Pounds (£10) on the
trusts declared in this Regulation ("the Fund"). Further
money or property may be paid or transferred to the
University to be held on the terms of the Fund.
2. The Fund shall be known as the Oxford Graduate
Scholarship Fund.
3. The University shall retain as permanent endowment all
funds donated on that basis.
4. The University shall apply the net income of the
permanent endowment and the income and, in its discretion,
the capital of the remainder of the Fund towards the
provision of scholarships to students accepted or registered
for a programme of graduate study at the University of
Oxford.
5. The administration of the Fund, and the application of
its income, shall be the responsibility of a Board of
Management comprising:
(1) Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education), or his or her
nominee, who shall be chairman;
(2)–(5) the chairmen of the Education Committees (or
their equivalent) of each division;
(6) the chairman of the Graduate Admissions Committee;
(7) the chairman of the Graduate Committee of the
Conference of Colleges.
6. The Board may co-opt up to three additional members for
periods of three years who shall be eligible for
re-appointment.
7. Any income not expended in any year shall be carried
forward for expenditure in subsequent years.
8. The University may in its absolute discretion in the
period ending twenty-one years from the date of this
Regulation instead of applying the income of the Fund in any
year accumulate all or any part of such income by investing
the same and the resulting income and may hold the same as
part of the capital of the Fund. The University may apply the
whole or any part of such accumulated income in any
subsequent year as if the same were income of the Fund
arising in the then current year.
9. The University shall have power to pay out of the
capital or the income of the Fund all costs of and incidental
to the creation of the Fund and the management and
administration of the Fund.
10. The University may exercise any of its corporate
powers in the management and administration of the Fund in so
far as those powers are not inconsistent with this
Regulation. 11. Regulations 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 above may be
amended by Council.'
(b) Establishment of Nigel Blackwell Sports
Bursary Fund
Explanatory Note
The following changes, made on the recommendation of the
Committee for the Council Departments, establish the Nigel
Blackwell Sports Bursary Fund to provide an annual
scholarship open to any student member of the University who
is both a good sportsperson and a good student.
Text of Regulations
In Part 2 of Council Regulations 25 of 2002, concerning
trusts (Statutes, 2000, p. 596, as redesignated
as regulations by Decree (5) of 11 July 2002,
Gazette, Vol. 132, p. 1461), insert new §
32 and renumber existing §§ 32–117 as
§§ 33–118:
'§ 32. The Nigel Blackwell Sports Bursary Fund
1. The benefaction from The Nigel Blackwell Trust which
comprises the sum of £15,000, and any further donations
for this purpose, shall be known as the Nigel Blackwell
Sports Bursary Fund.
2. The income of the Fund shall be used to maintain a
scholarship which shall be open to any student member of the
University who is both a good sportsperson and a good
student. The award shall be named the Eliza or Richard
Blackwell Scholarship, as is appropriate to each individual
winner of the award. One scholarship shall be awarded each
year.
3. The Sports Strategy Committee shall have overall
responsibility for the Fund. It shall establish a Board of
Management to administer the fund.
4. The value of the scholarship and the terms upon which
it is awarded shall be as determined by the Board of
Management from time to time.
5. Regulations 3 and 4 above may be amended by
Council.'
(c) Establishment of Basant Kumar and Sarala
Birla Graduate Scholarship Fund
Explanatory Note
This change establishes the Basant Kumar and Sarala Birla
Graduate Scholarship Fund in support of a graduate
studentship in Linguistics.
Text of Regulations
In Part 2 of Council Regulations 25 of 2002
(Statutes, 2000, p. 596, as redesignated as
regulations by Decree (5) of 11 July 2002,
Gazette, Vol. 132, p. 1461), insert new §
200 as follows and renumber existing §§
200–18 as §§ 201–19:
'§ 200. Basant Kumar and Sarala Birla Graduate
Scholarship Fund
1. The benefaction from Birla International Limited of
eight hundred and fifty one thousand pounds (£851,000),
together with any further donations for this purpose, shall
be known as the Basant Kumar and Sarala Birla Graduate
Scholarship Fund for the Support of Graduate Study in
Linguistics.
2. The University shall retain all of the Fund as
permanent endowment and shall apply the net income of the
Fund towards the Basant Kumar and Sarala Birla Graduate
Scholarship in the Faculty of Linguistics, Phonetics and
Philology.
3. The administration of the Fund, and the application of
its income, shall be the responsibility of the Board of the
Faculty of Linguistics, Phonetics and Philology.
4. The Scholarships shall be open to students from any
country of residence who are undertaking graduate research in
Linguistics in the Faculty of Linguistics, Phonetics and
Philology.
5. Each Scholarship will provide full funding for the
standard duration of the student's course (typically three
years in the case of doctoral students). It is anticipated
that one scholarship will be held at any one time.
6. The University will not offer a Scholarship until such
time as the net income accumulates to the point where
adequate funds become available to fund a student for the
full duration of his/her course.
7. Regulations 3, 4, 5 and 6 may be amended by
Council.'
(d) Wronker Prizes
Explanatory Note
These changes, made on the recommendation of the Medical
Sciences Board, make explicit within the regulations that
annual prizes be awarded to acknowledge meritorious
performance in the Preliminary Examination in Medicine.
Text of Regulations
In Part 2 of Council Regulations 25 of 2002
(Statutes, 2000, p. 754, as redesignated as
regulations by Decree (5) of 11 July 2002,
Gazette Vol. 132, p. 1461), delete existing
§ 388.7 and substitute:
'7. In addition to the annual prize in Medicine and grants
to unsuccessful candidates for this prize, the Medical
Sciences Board may, at its discretion, award annually to
members of the University on the Register of University
Medical Students the following prizes of a value to be
determined by the divisional board from time to time,
provided that no person shall be awarded on any single
occasion more than one prize or grant from the Medicine Prize
Fund:
(1) a Wronker Prize in Pharmacology for meritorious
performance in a research project on a pharmacological topic
in either the Final Honour School of Medical Sciences or the
Final Honour School of Psychology, Philosophy, and
Physiology. Not to be awarded to the winner of British
Pharmacological Society Prize, if any.
(2) A prize for meritorious performance in the research
project on either a special topic in the Final Honour School
of Medical Sciences, or a physiological subject in the Final
Honour School of Psychology, Philosophy, and Physiology.
(3) A prize or prizes for meritorious performance in Parts
I and II of the Preliminary Examination in Medicine.
(4) Such other prizes for meritorious performance in
examinations under the aegis of the board, or in the Final
Honour School of Psychology, Philosophy, and Physiology
(provided that the subjects offered have included
Physiology), as the board may from time to time
determine.'
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COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY
Register of Congregation
Mr Vice-Chancellor reports that the following names have
been added to the Register of Congregation:
De Whalley, P.C.S., Merton
Foddy, B.M., Faculty of Philosophy
Koch, G., Faculty of Mathematics
Mandelbaum, E., Faculty of Philosophy
Oancea, A.E., St Hilda's
Ryan, A.J., Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and
Biology
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DIVISIONAL BOARDS AND BOARDS OF FACULTIES
For changes in regulations for examinations, to come into
effect on 25 June, see 'Examinations and Boards' below.
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