No 6824
Wednesday 13 May 2026
Vol clvi No 29
pp. 465–470
14 May, Thursday. Scarlet Day. Ascension Day.
21 May, Thursday. Easter Term divides.
22 May, Friday. Congregation of the Regent House at 10 a.m.
23 May, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 10 a.m.
24 May, Sunday. Scarlet Day. Whitsunday.
26 May, Tuesday. Discussion by videoconference at 2 p.m. (see below).
31 May, Sunday. Scarlet Day. Trinity Sunday. Preacher before the University at 11.30 a.m., The Rt Revd Dr Paul Swarup, of Clare College, Bishop of Delhi, Church of North India (Ramsden Preacher).
|
Discussions (Tuesdays at 2 p.m.) |
Congregations (at 10 a.m. unless otherwise stated) |
|
26 May 2 June 16 June 30 June 14 July |
22 and 23 May 24 June, 2.45 p.m. (Honorary Degrees) 1, 2, 3 and 4 July (General Admission) 23, 24 and 25 July |
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, 2024, p. 111) to attend a Discussion by videoconference on Tuesday, 26 May 2026 at 2 p.m. The following item will be discussed:
1.Consultation on proposals for changes to senior administrative offices (Reporter, 6823, 2025–26, p. 447).
Those wishing to join the Discussion by videoconference should email Discussions@admin.cam.ac.uk 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 Discussions@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 Director of Governance and Compliance, 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.
For general information on Discussions see the Reporter website at https://www.reporter.admin.cam.ac.uk/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/.
The General Board has agreed, on the recommendation of UREC, to amend UREC’s terms of reference to include the consideration of ethical issues arising from research that involves environmental interventions (where the research has the potential to cause harm directly to the natural environment and/or such harm potentially impacts on local and national populations) alongside personal data and human participants. UREC will establish a new sub-committee to review research involving large-scale environmental interventions.
The General Board has agreed to add references to environmental interventions before the references to personal data in paragraphs 3(i), (iii), (iv) and (v) of UREC’s terms of reference, as reproduced in Statutes and Ordinances, 2024, p. 669.