Council, Committees & Congregation

Questions to Council and Council’s reply: Report of Proceedings (13 October)

A meeting was held on 13 October, where the questions and replies published in the Gazette of 23 July 2020 were read out and supplementary questions asked.

Elections (26 November)

Reminder: a call for nominations has been announced for vacancies to the following bodies (full details are available on the Elections website):

• Council
• Audit & Scrutiny Committee
• Buildings & Estates Subcommittee
• Curators of the University Libraries
• Curators of the University Parks
• Committee for the Nomination of Select Preachers
• Nominations Committee
• Pool for Constituting Panels under Statute XII
• Socially Responsible Investment Review Committee
• Panel for Constituting the Visitatorial Board under Statute XII Part C
• Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Board
• Medical Sciences Divisional Board
• Social Sciences Divisional Board
• Board of the Faculty of English Language and Literature
• Board of the Faculty of History
• Board of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
• Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies
• Board of the Faculty of Philosophy
• Board of the Faculty of Theology and Religion
• Board of the Faculty of Law

Register of Congregation

New members of register (AGN Burnyeat; MJ Froggatt; MK Grace; NAT Irwin; DW McBride; LA McDermott; L Moody; NJ Petela; EM Rutherford; HL Spelman; A Szabó)

Degrees by Resolution

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University Notices

Vice-Chancellor’s Open Forum

11.45am, 4 November

To find out about the current challenges facing the University and to ask the Vice-Chancellor about the issues that matter to you, please register to attend by noon on 3 November.

USS Technical Consultation

University’s draft response

The University’s draft response can be found on its USS pension webpage. Comments are invited until 24 October and will be considered in preparing the final version of the response: email alan.cunningham@admin.ox.ac.uk with the subject line ‘CONSULTATION’.

People-related notices

Electoral Board

• WA Handley Professorship of Psychiatry (revised)

Exams & Boards

Examination Regulation changes

• Continuing Education Board (MSt and PGDip in History of Design)

Viva voce exams

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• Humanities (DPhil)
• MPLS (DPhil)
• Medical Sciences (MSc)
• Social Sciences (MPhil)