Council and Main Committees
- Planning and Resource Allocation Committee of Council: Changes in Regulations
- Council of the University: Register of Congregation
- Thursday 28 April 2011
- NO. 4950
- VOL. 141
Planning and Resource Allocation Committee of Council
Changes in Regulations
The Planning and Resource Allocation Committee of Council has made the following changes in regulations, to come into effect on 13 May.
(a) Laudian Professor of Arabic
Explanatory Note
The following change amends the composition of the electoral board of the Laudian Professor of Arabic to comply with the general provisions for electoral boards laid down in Council Regulations 3 of 2004. It also replaces reference to 'decrees' with reference to 'regulations' and removes reference to the General Board.
Text of Regulations
In Sect. III of Council Regulations 24 of 2002, concerning individual professorships (Statutes, 2000, p. 432, as redesignated as regulations by Decree (5) of 11 July 2002, Gazette, Vol. 132, p. 1461), in § 11 delete existing regulations 2 and 3, and substitute:
'2. The professor shall be elected by an electoral board consisting of:
(1) the Vice-Chancellor, or, if the President of St John's College is Vice-Chancellor, a person appointed by Council;
(2) the President of St John's College, or, if the President is unable or unwilling to act, a person appointed by the Governing Body of St John's College;
(3) a person appointed by the Governing Body of St John's College;
(4), (5) two persons appointed by Council;
(6) the Head of the Humanities Division, or his or her nominee;
(7)–(9) three persons appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies.
3. The professor shall be subject to the General Provisions of the regulations concerning the duties of professors and to those Particular Provisions of the same regulations as to residence which are applicable to this chair. He or she shall give not less than thirty-six lectures or classes in the year, provided that this obligation may be reduced in exceptional circumstances with the approval of the faculty board concerned.'
(b) Shaw Professor of Chinese
Explanatory Note
The following change amends the composition of the electoral board of the Shaw Professor of Chinese to comply with the general provisions for electoral boards laid down in Council Regulations 3 of 2004. It also replaces reference to 'decrees' with reference to 'regulations' and removes reference to the General Board.
Text of Regulations
In Sect. III of Council Regulations 24 of 2002, concerning individual professorships (Statutes, 2000, p. 408, as redesignated as regulations by Decree (5) of 11 July 2002, Gazette, Vol. 132, p. 1461), in Part 1 of § 52 delete existing regulations 2–4 and substitute:
'2. The professor shall be elected by an electoral board consisting of:
(1) the Vice-Chancellor, or, if the Master of University College is Vice-Chancellor, a person appointed by Council;
(2) the Master of University College, or, if the Master is unable or unwilling to act, a person appointed by the Governing Body of University College;
(3) a person appointed by the Governing Body of University College;
(4), (5) two persons appointed by Council;
(6) the Head of the Humanities Division, or his or her nominee;
(7)–(9) three persons appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies.
3. The professor shall be subject to the General Provisions of the regulations concerning the duties of professors and to those Particular Provisions of the same regulations as to residence which are applicable to this chair. He or she shall give not less than thirty-six lectures or classes in the year, provided that this obligation may be reduced in exceptional circumstances with the approval of the faculty board concerned.'
(c) Establishment of Professorship of Geophysics
Explanatory Note
These changes, made on the recommendation of the Planning and Resource Allocation Committee of Council, establish a Professorship of Geophysics held in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. The Professor will teach and undertake research in Geophysics and will be on the establishment of the Department of Earth Sciences in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division.
Text of Regulations
1 In SCHEDULE A of Council Regulations 3 of 2004, concerning statutory professorships, before 'Professor of Geosystem Sciences' insert:
'Professor of Geophysics'.
2 In Sect. III of Council Regulations 24 of 2002, concerning individual professorships (Statutes, 2000, p. 427, redesignated as regulations by Decree (5) of 11 July 2002, Gazette, Vol. 132, p. 1461) insert new § 109 as follows and renumber existing § 109–58 as § 110–59:
'§ 109. Professor of Geophysics
1. There shall be a Professor of Geophysics, who shall undertake research in and shall lecture and give instruction in that subject and generally promote its study in the University.
2. The professor shall be elected by an electoral board consisting of:
(1) the Vice-Chancellor, or, if the head of the college specified in (2) of this clause is Vice-Chancellor, a person appointed by Council;
(2) the head of the college to which the professorship shall be for the time being allocated by Council under any regulations in that behalf, or if the head is unable or unwilling to act, a person appointed by the governing body of the college;
(3) a person appointed by the governing body of the college specified in (2) of this clause;
(4)–(5) two persons appointed by Council;
(6)–(9) four persons appointed by the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Board.
3. The professor shall be subject to the General Provisions of the regulations concerning the duties of professors and to those Particular Provisions of the same regulations which are applicable to this chair.'
Council of the University
Register of Congregation
Mr Vice-Chancellor reports that the following names have been added to the Register of Congregation:
Ceron, M., Worcester
Christodoulides, C., Faculty of Clinical Medicine
Clay, M.R., University Development Office
Coulter, A.M., St Catherine's
Cudlip, S.A., Faculty of Clinical Medicine
Finlay, I.J., Oxford Learning Institute
Foster, K.R., Magdalen
Grant, J.E., Queen's
Green, A.R., Lincoln
Hebron, R.J., Pembroke
Howe, M.A., St Catherine’s
Ireland, P.T., St Catherine's
Kalmbach, H.E., New College
Moyes, C.L., Department of Zoology
Noren, K.A., Disability Advisory Service
Peters, M., Department of Public Health
Pyrah, R.M., Magdalen
Silva, I.A., Harris Manchester
Sullivan, P.M., University Security and Messenger Services
Wade, R.H., Green Templeton
Walton, S.E., Finance Division
Wang, L., Oxford University Computing Services
Warnaby, C.E., Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics