No 6792
Wednesday 9 July 2025
Vol clv No 40
pp. 716–758
9 July, Wednesday. Ballot of the Senate for the election of the Chancellor, online voting opens at 10 a.m. (see below).
12 July, Saturday. Ballot of the Senate for the election of the Chancellor, in-person voting in the Senate‑House (see below).
15 July, Tuesday. Discussion by videoconference at 2 p.m. (see below).
16 July, Wednesday. Ballot of the Senate for the election of the Chancellor, in-person voting in the Senate‑House (see below).
18 July, Friday. Ballot of the Senate for the election of the Chancellor, online voting closes at 5 p.m.
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Discussions (Tuesdays at 2 p.m.) |
Congregations (at 10 a.m. unless otherwise stated) |
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15 July |
24, 25 and 26 July |
The next and last ordinary issue of the Reporter for the 2024–25 academic year will be published on 30 July 2025. Issues will only be published on 16 and 23 July if needed for urgent items of business. The first issue of the 2025–26 academic year is currently scheduled for publication on 24 September.
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, 15 July 2025 at 2 p.m. The following item will be discussed:
1.Joint Report of the Council and the General Board, dated 30 June 2025, on student membership of the General Board (Reporter, 6791, 2024–25, p. 695).
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/section1.shtml.
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice of an election to fill vacancies on the Nominating Committee for External Members of the Council as follows:
•one vacancy in class (c) (a member elected by the Regent House from among those who at the time of election are current members of the Council in classes (a), (b), and (c));
•two vacancies in class (d) (members of the Senate elected by the Regent House).
Those elected would serve for four years from 1 October 2025.
No person may be a member of the Committee in class (d) who is a member of the Council or who holds any of the University offices of Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Registrary, or Director or Deputy Director in the University Offices.
The Committee identifies candidates to serve as external members of the Council and recommends them to the Council for appointment by Grace. Further information about the Committee is available in the Statutes and Ordinances (p. 119) and from the Registrary (email: Registrary@admin.cam.ac.uk).
A nomination process for an external member of the Council is currently in progress. Members whose terms expire on 30 September 2025 will continue to serve on the Committee until that nomination process has concluded, in accordance with Regulation 5(b) of the Ordinance for the Committee.
These elections will follow the same procedure as the elections to the Council and the Board of Scrutiny published on 25 June (Reporter, 6790, 2024–25, p. 669). However, the timetable has been extended by one week to accommodate this additional election. The deadline for nominations is 12 noon on Monday, 21 July 2025. If the election is contested, voting will open at 10 a.m. on Friday, 1 August and close at 5 p.m. on Monday, 11 August 2025. Nominations may be made on forms available on the governance site.1
Notices confirming the election of members of the Committee incorrectly recorded the dates of expiry of their terms. Professor Sharon Peacock in class (c) and Reverend Canon Jutta Brueck and Mr Martin MacConnol in class (d) should have been elected to serve until 30 September 2027, not 30 September 2025 (Reporter: 6705, 2022–23, p. 762; 6748, 2023–24, p. 726).
The timetable for the elections to the Council and the Board of Scrutiny as published on 25 June has been extended by one week.1 Please see the Notice above for the revised election timetable including a new deadline for nominations of 12 noon on Monday, 21 July 2025.
The Council and the General Board have approved a revised version of the above Policy, which applies to commercial catering services, including those delivered by University staff. The Policy has been updated to reflect new legislation, which came into force in October 2021, and to note the transfer of responsibility for maintaining and implementing the Policy from the Safety Office to the Estates Division. The updated Policy comes into effect immediately and is available at: https://www.unicen.cam.ac.uk/food-safety.
The Proctors Designate for 2025–26 (Dr Martin Parker Dixon, of Sidney Sussex College and Dr Benjamin Spagnolo, of Trinity College) have nominated Dr Sebastian Leonard Dundas Falk, of Girton College, and Dr Mark Edward Purcell, of Pembroke College, under Special Ordinance C (iii) 3 for election as their Deputies on 1 October 2025. This is in addition to their nomination of the current Proctors, Dr Markus Wilhelm Gehring, of Hughes Hall and Dr Fraz Arif Mir, of King’s College.
Members of the Senate are reminded of the voting arrangements for the election of the next Chancellor.
Online voting opened at 10 a.m. today (Wednesday, 9 July) and closes on Friday, 18 July at 5 p.m. Those who registered to vote online by the May deadline should have received an email from Civica with a link to the voting site.
In‑person voting will take place in the Senate‑House in Cambridge as follows:
•Saturday, 12 July, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. (UK time (UTC+1)); and
•Wednesday, 16 July, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. (UK time (UTC+1)).
In-person voting is open to members of the Senate who did not register to vote online.
Further information on how to vote and on the candidates is available on the Chancellor election 2025 website at https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/chancellor/election-of-the-next-chancellor.
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Both the Yard and the Combination Room will be closed on Saturday 12 July and Wednesday, 16 July 2025, due to the Chancellorship election (see above). Access to the University Offices will be from Trinity Lane. Only members of the Senate voting in person in the election and other authorised persons will be allowed to enter the Senate-House Yard during the voting period.