Council and the General Board of the university of Cambridge

Council and the General Board of the university of Cambridge

Although the University Council is the principal executive and policy-making at the University, therefore, it should report and be accountable to the Regent House through a variety of checks and balances. You have the right to inform the University, and is obliged to advise the Regent House on matters of general concern to the University. What does both by causing notices to be published by authority in the Cambridge University Reporter, the official newspaper of the University. Since January 2005, the composition of the Council has included two external members, and the Regent House voted for an increase from two to four the number of external members in March 2008 and this was approved by Her Majesty the Queen in July 2008.

The General Board of the Faculties is responsible for the academic and educational policy of the University, and is responsible to the Council for its management of these affairs.

Faculty Boards are responsible to the General Meeting, other Councils and Unions are responsible for both the General Board (if primarily for academic purposes) or to the Council. Thus, the various branches of the University are kept under the supervision of the central administration, and thus the Regent House.