Reports

Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on corrections to Special Ordinances concerning Selection Committees

The Council and the General Board beg leave to report to the University as follows:

1. Special Ordinance C (x) sets out the process for the appointment by Selection Committee to certain academic offices. This Report proposes corrections to clarify that certain provisions in Part C of Special Ordinance C (vii) apply to Selection Committees making appointments and reappointments to the University offices of Reader and Professor (Grade 11). Those provisions determine, amongst other things, the membership and the requirements for attendance and voting at meetings of Selection Committees making such appointments.

2. The Council and the General Board recommend:

I.That in Section 1(a) of Part C of Special Ordinance C (vii) (Statutes and Ordinances, 2024, p. 85), the words ‘members of the Selection Committee for the institution concerned’ be replaced with ‘members of the Selection Committee for the institution concerned constituted in accordance with the provisions of Special Ordinance C (x)’.

II.That in Special Ordinance C (x) (Statutes and Ordinances, 2024, p. 94), a new Section 9 be inserted to read as follows and existing Sections 9 and 10 and any cross-references renumbered accordingly.

9. Sections 1–3 of Part C of Special Ordinance C (vii) shall apply to Selection Committees making appointments and reappointments to the University offices of Reader and Professor (Grade 11).

3 February 2026

3 February 2026