IV. OF THE TIMES AND EXERCISES REQUIRED FOR DEGREES IN LETTERS AND IN SCIENCE. [Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. IV.] § 1. Of the Degrees of Bachelor of Letters and Bachelor of Science. Any person who has been permitted by the authority and in the manner hereinafter provided to enter on a course of special study or research in Letters or Science may supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Letters or Bachelor of Science respectively, provided that he has satisfied the conditions prescribed by this Statute. Science shall be taken to include Mathematics and Natural Science. As regards philosophical subjects, the Board of the Faculty of Litera Humaniores shall determine whether a proposed course of special study or research belongs to Letters or to Science. § 2. Of the Admission of Candidates for the Degrees of 1. Any person who has been, or is qualified to be, matriculated in the University may be admitted to a course of special study or research as a Student for the Degree of Bachelor of Letters or Bachelor of Science by the Board of the Faculty to which the subject of his course belongs, provided that he has satisfied the following conditions: (1) His name, if he has been matriculated, must be (2) He must be not under the age of twenty-one years, Science at some other University in the United Kingdom, he must have given evidence, satisfactory to the Education Committee hereinafter constituted, that he has received a good general education. 2. The application for admission as a Student for the Degree of Bachelor of Letters or Bachelor of Science of a Candidate who has passed the Examinations required for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts shall be transmitted to the Assistant Registrar by the Head or a Tutor of his College or Hall, or by the Censor of Non-Collegiate Students, and shall be accompanied by a statement of the subject and nature of his proposed course of special study or research, and by evidence of his age and of his fitness to enter upon such course. 3. The application for admission as a Student for the Degree of Bachelor of Letters or Bachelor of Science of a Candidate who has not passed the Examinations required for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts shall be transmitted to the Assistant Registrar by the Head or a Tutor of the College or Hall to which he belongs, or to which he desires. to belong, or by the Censor of Non-Collegiate Students, and shall be accompanied by (1) Evidence of the age of the Candidate. (2) Evidence that he has taken a Degree in Arts or in Letters or in Science at some other University in the United Kingdom, or such evidence of his previous education as he desires to lay before the Education Committee. (3) A statement of the subject and nature of his proposed course of special study or research. (4) Evidence of his fitness to enter upon such course. 4. The Assistant Registrar shall bring the application of any Candidate who has satisfied the conditions of clause 1 of this subsection before the Board of the Faculty to which his proposed subject belongs for its approval. Such approval shall not be granted unless the Board is satisfied (1) that the Candidate is well fitted to pursue the course of special study or research on which he proposes to enter, (2) that the course is one which may be profitably pursued under the superintendence of the Board. 5. A Board shall have power (a) to appoint a Standing Committee of its own members to consider the applications of Candidates and to report to the Board, (b) to appoint a Committee of Graduate members of the University, or other competent persons, to consider the application of any particular Candidate and to report to the Board. 6. It shall be the duty of the Assistant Registrar to notify the decision of the Board to the Candidate as soon as may be, and a Candidate whose application has been approved by the Board shall be admitted as a Student for the Degree of Bachelor of Letters or Bachelor of Science so soon after receiving such notification as he shall have paid the statutable fee of £5 to the University Chest through the Assistant Registrar; provided that no Candidate shall be so admitted until he has been matriculated as a member of the University. 7. Any Candidate may with the permission of the Board alter the subject and nature of the course of special study or research which has been approved for him by the Board, and the date on which such permission has been granted shall be reckoned as the date of his admission for all the purposes of this Section, unless the Board shall otherwise order on the ground that the change is not of a substantial character. 8. The Committee appointed to consider whether an intending Candidate has received a good general education shall be styled the Education Committee and shall be composed of one representative of each of the following Boards of Faculties, namely, Theology, Law, Medicine, Natural Science, Literæ Humaniores, Oriental Languages, Modern History, and Medieval and Modern Languages, elected by the Board from among its own members. Each representative shall hold office for two years unless he shall, before the expiration of that period, cease to be a member of the Board which elected him, and shall be re-eligible. Vacancies on the Committee caused otherwise than by lapse of time shall be filled up for the remainder of the period for which the vacating member was elected. The Assistant Registrar shall act as Secretary to the Committee, and it shall be his duty to lay before the Committee the evidence produced by Candidates applying under cl. 3 (2) of this subsection. § 3. Of the supervision of Students for the Degrees of Bachelor of Letters and Bachelor of Science. 1. A Board may appoint one or more Graduate members of the University or other competent persons to superintend the work of any student admitted as aforesaid. Persons so appointed shall be styled Supervisors, and the Board may at any time request a Supervisor to report to it concerning the work of a Student. It shall be the duty of a Supervisor to direct and superintend the work of a Student, but not to give him systematic instruction. 2. A Board shall have power to direct that a fee shall be paid for supervision, provided that the amount of such fee shall not exceed £2 per Term for any Student. When a Board orders such a fee to be paid, the Assistant Registrar shall notify the fact, as soon as may be, to the Supervisor and to the Student and to the Society of which the Student is a member. The fee shall be paid by or on behalf of the Student to the Supervisor before the end of each Term for which it is due. § 4. Of the issue of Certificates. 1. Any Student who has completed his proposed course of special study or research and has embodied the results thereof in a dissertation, may at any time not earlier than the third Term after that in which he was admitted apply to the Board of the Faculty for a Certificate that the work done by him in his course of special study or research is of a high standard of merit. Such application shall be made through the Assistant Registrar and shall be accompanied by two copies, or if special leave has been obtained from the Board, one copy, of his dissertation and by a Certificate from the proper officer of his Society that his name has been continuously on the books of that Society since the date of his admission, and the Student shall at the same time pay to the University Chest through the Assistant Registrar the statutable fee of £5. 2. On receipt of any such application the Assistant Registrar shall inform the Supervisor or Supervisors of the Student, if any were appointed, and shall bring the application, together with any report thereon that the Supervisor or Supervisors may desire to make, before the Board as soon as may be. Whenever the payment of a fee for supervision has been ordered, the Supervisor shall report whether it has been duly paid. The Board shall thereupon, if the Candidate has satisfied the conditions hereinbefore laid down, appoint two Examiners whose duties shall be (1) to consider the dissertation sent in by the Student with his application, (2) to examine the Student publicly in the subject of such dissertation and in matters relevant to his course of special study or research, (3) to report to the Board through the Assistant Registrar, (4) to return the Student's dissertation to the Assistant Registrar with their report. 3. Any report sent in by a Supervisor under the provisions of the preceding clause shall be transmitted to the Examiners with the Student's dissertation. 4. No Supervisor of a Student shall be eligible for appointment as an Examiner of that Student, unless special leave from the Vice-Chancellor has been obtained by the Board concerned, but the Examiners appointed for any Student shall have power to consult his Supervisor or Supervisors. 5. On receipt of the report of the Examiners it shall be the duty of the Board to decide whether a Certificate shall be issued to the Student or not, but a Certificate shall in no case be issued to a Student unless his Examiners have reported that the work done by him in his course of special study or research, as embodied in his dissertation and as tested by his public Examination, is of a high standard of merit. Provided that if the Examiners are divided as to its standard of merit, the Board shall have the power to satisfy itself in some other way as to the merit of the work done by the Student and to grant him a Certificate if it sees fit. 6. The Certificate shall be signed on behalf of the Board by the Chairman and Secretary, and shall be of the following form : 'Board of the Faculty of This is to certify that A. B., of Oxford. (Date.) College (or of Hall, or Non-Collegiate Student), has, in conformity with the requirements of the Statutes, completed a course of special study (or research) approved by the Board, that he has embodied the results thereof in a dissertation, that he has been publicly examined, and that in the opinion of the Board his work has reached a high standard of merit and he is entitled to supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Letters (or Science). Signed on behalf of the Board, C. D., Chairman. When a Certificate has been issued it shall be the duty of the Board to publish in the usual manner the grounds on which such Certificate has been granted, together with the names of the Examiners who have reported to the Board. |