CCG Standing Orders

There shall be a Consultative Committee with Graduates consisting of up to 6 junior members reading for higher degrees, and the Director of Graduate Studies. One or two of the junior members should be following an MSc by coursework.

Committee members shall be elected from amongst graduate students admitted by the Mathematical Institute, and graduate students following taught MScs by coursework for which the Mathematical Institute shares some teaching responsibility. Nominations and self-nominations shall be invited by circulating these graduate students electronically in the second week of Michaelmas Term. Elections shall be held electronically during the fourth week of Michaelmas Term, with three working days being given for voting. The one MSc(coursework) student with the most votes, the three research students (DPhil or MSc by research) with the most votes, and the two remaining students (either MSc or DPhil) with the most votes will be elected. The Committee shall have the power to co-opt junior members such that membership is complete. The committee may operate, if necessary, without its full complement of places having been filled.

The committee shall be concerned with matters such as the syllabus, teaching arrangements, library facilities, office facilities, and the general aspects of examinations. It shall annually review examiners reports for the taught MScs.

The Director of Graduate Studies shall be the chairman of the committee. The Graduate Studies Assistant or another member of Mathematical Institute staff shall act as secretary to the committee. The minutes of the Committee shall be forwarded to the Departmental Committee.

The Committee shall be able as of right to address a communication direct to the Departmental Committee, the Research Committee, or the Teaching Committee, of the Mathematical Institute depending on the matters involved.

Unless the Chairman shall order otherwise, the committee shall meet at 2pm on Thursday in the fifth week of each Full Term.