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Board of Scrutiny

 

Thursday 27 November 2003

 

Robinson College

Garden Room

 

Present: Mantas Adomenas, Stephen Cowley, Christopher
Forsyth (chair), Nicholas Holmes, Elizabeth Leedham-Green, Timothy Milner
Saskia Murk-Jansen, David Phillipson, Jennifer Rigby, Roger Salmon, John
Spencer, Helen Thompson.

 

1.      
Apologies

There were no apologies.

 

2.      
Minutes of the meeting of 13 November 2003

The Board accepted the minutes with one small
correction in wording.

 

3.      
Matters arising

 

3.1.    Administrative
support

The Chair to reported that he had written to the Registrary again
but had received no reply.

 

3.2.    Clarity of
Council papers

The Chair to reported that he had written to the Registrary again
but had received no reply.

 

3.3.    Primate
research faculty at 307 Huntington Road

The Chair reported on the meeting of he and several
members of the Board with the Vice-Chancellor. 
The Board welcomed the news that there would almost certainly be a
second grace on the proposed building. The Board agreed that there will still
some outstanding constitutional questions about graces and the apparent
presumption that the Council can censure information to the Regent House for
reasons the Council itself determined and that it would return to this matter
in a future report.

 

3.4.    RAM Report

The Board agreed that the Chair, Stephen Cowley,
Nicholas Holmes and Roger Salmon would attend the meeting that afternoon with
the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for planning and resources. The Board noted that on
preliminary reading the important questions that arise in the RAM report are:
the principles for the allocation of resources to the central bodies of the
University; the saving targets planned for the central bodies; whether colleges
are providing value for money for the revenue top-sliced from teaching income;
the use of space in the formulas; the setting of parameters.

 

3.5.    RSD

The Board agreed that the Chair, Stephen Cowley,
Nicholas Holmes, David Phillipson and Roger Salmon would attend the meeting
with the Director of RSD.

 

4.      
Issues for discussion with the Registrary

The Board agreed to raise several issues in its
meeting with the Registrary that afternoon: progress on implementing the
recommendations on Shattock and Finkelstein, the provision of legal advice
within the Old Schools, graces not included in Ordinances, and the HEFCE audit
memorandum.

 

5.      
Any other business

5.1.    The
Council’s response to the Board’s Eighth Report

The Board agreed that the Council’s response was, on a
range of issues, disappointing. It noted that, pace the Council, the Regent House is the governing body of the
University, not a watchdog.          

 

6.      
Date of the next meeting: 15 January 2004