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Submitting content for the University Gazette

The Gazette publishes a variety of notices submitted by and on behalf of the collegiate University, some of which are official notices and some unofficial. 

If you have a notice you would like us to publish, please see our Formats and deadlines page for details of how and when to send us your notice and the style and format to use.

Issue contents

This is a brief summary of the typical contents of the Gazette, section by section (please note that not all sections or types of content are required in all weeks):

Gazette sectionContent published in that section
Council and Main Committees
  • Acts of Congregation
  • Regulations made and amended by Council and its committees
  • Additions to the Register of Congregation
  • Results of Congregation, Convocation, divisional and faculty board elections (when contested)
Congregation/Convocation
  • The agenda of pending meetings of Congregation (and Convocation, when elections are held for the Professorship of Poetry and the Chancellorship)
Notices
  • Surveys about University services and policies
  • Requests for comments for departmental reviews
  • Calls for nominations for Honorary Degrees
  • Notifications of revisions to college statutes in case of objections from Congregation
  • Policy changes and operational updates
  • Approvals of statute changes by Privy Council
  • Reports of certain committees
  • Information about major University events and ceremonies (eg Encaenia)
  • Information about internal awards schemes
  • Appointments to professorships, readerships and lectureships
  • Conferments of the title of Visiting Professor
  • Titles conferred under the Recognition of Distinction procedure
  • Awards of postgraduate University prizes
  • Memberships of electoral boards/selection committees to vacant professorships and senior administrative posts
  • University and college events, such as concerts and recitals
  • Exhibitions on University and college premises
Lectures
  • Forthcoming lectures, seminars, conferences and study days (please note that a supplement is published in 0th week each term where the majority of such events are advertised) 
Examinations and Boards
  • Changes to Examination Regulations made by divisional and faculty boards
  • Leave to supplicate for higher degrees
  • Notices of forthcoming viva voce examinations
Colleges, Halls and Societies
  • Notices of memorial events
  • Obituary announcements for members of colleges
  • Announcements of elections to college fellowships, scholarships and headships
  • Announcements of elections to the position of Proctor and Assessor
Elections
  • Details of elections to Council, committees, divisional boards and faculty boards: vacant posts, nominations, candidates' statements and results of lapsed or uncontested elections (contested election results are published in Council section)
  • Details of elections for the Professor of Poetry and the Chancellorship
Advertisements
  • Classified advertisements
Notification of Prizes, Grants and Funding
  • Short announcements of available prizes, grants and funding
Notifications of Vacancies
  • Notices of academic and administrative vacancies in the University and colleges
  • Notices of equivalent vacancies at the University of Cambridge and affiliated bodies in Oxford