No 6827
Wednesday 3 June 2026
Vol clvi No 32
pp. 505–521
The Council submits the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, unless they are withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 111), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 12 June 2026. Further information on requests for a ballot or the amendment of Graces is available to members of the Regent House on the Regent House Petitions site.§
1. That the following new Regulation 5 be added after Regulations 1–4 of the Ordinance for the General Board (Statutes and Ordinances, 2024, p. 120):1
5. In the case of a course or subject leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree, or to a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree established by Special Ordinance:
(a) a decision to suspend the admission by Colleges of students to such a course or subject shall be taken by Grace after the publication of either a Notice or, if the Board is aware that the suspension is likely to prove controversial, a Report;
(b) a decision to terminate the admission by Colleges of students to such a course or subject, or otherwise discontinue such a course or subject, shall be taken by Grace after the publication of a Report.
2. That, with effect from 16 February 2026 and notwithstanding any regulation of the General Board made or to be made, admission of students to the Vet.M.B. course not be suspended or terminated otherwise than by Grace after the publication of a Report on the future of Veterinary Education and Research in the University, and that an Order be issued to this effect.1
3. That the following new Ordinance be approved:1
The General Board shall publish and maintain a procedure or procedures for the steps leading to the permanent or temporary closure or merger of a University institution or course established in General Board Regulations. For the avoidance of doubt, the procedure or procedures shall cover the steps leading to the permanent or temporary cessation of admissions to a course.
4. That the recommendations in paragraph 6 of the Report of the General Board, dated 31 March 2026, on the establishment of a Faculty of Government (Rokos School of Government) (Reporter, 6821, 2025–26, p. 417) be approved.2
5. That a Rokos Professorship of Government be established in perpetuity, with the title to be determined by the Council of the School of the Physical Sciences to reflect the specialism of the person elected, placed in the Schedule to Special Ordinance C (vii) 1, and assigned to the School of the Physical Sciences and reassigned to the Faculty of Government, subject to the Faculty’s establishment by Grace.2
6. That the Ordinance for the Board of Electors to Livings (Statutes and Ordinances, 2024, p. 126) notwithstanding, with respect to the current vacancy in the benefice of the Brickhills and Stoke Hammond in the Diocese of Oxford, the Vice-Chancellor be empowered to take any actions on behalf of the University that may be necessary in the exercise of its patronage in accordance with the Patronage (Benefices) Measure 1986 and that the Council retain power to order that the Common Seal of the University be affixed to a deed of presentation once a clerk has been selected and approved for admission to the benefice.3
1See the Council’s Notice, p. 508.
2See the Council’s Notice, p. 509.
3The Council has received notice of a vacancy in the above group benefice of which the University is a joint patron with three other parties. The appointment is subject to the Patronage (Benefices) Measure 1986, which requires the University as a body corporate to appoint an individual to act as its representative. The relevant Ordinance does not anticipate such a requirement and therefore this Grace proposes an alternative arrangement to enable the University to comply with the Measure.
§Accessible by members of the Regent House at https://universityofcambridgecloud.sharepoint.com/sites/RegentHousePetitions [University account required].