A graduate school which will bring together many of the support systems that help post-graduate scholars in the arts and humanities get the most out of their time at Cambridge has been established.
A graduate school which will bring together many of the support systems that help post-graduate scholars in the arts and humanities get the most out of their time at Cambridge has been established.
The new body is part of the University’s wider School of Arts and Humanities, one of the University’s six administrative groupings, comprising around 20 different institutions covering subjects as diverse as English, Philosophy, and the History of Art.
The Graduate School will provide graduate students with advice and support on issues such as training, research funding, future career pathways, and the allocation of supervisors.
Currently these matters are handled by individual Degree Committees representing smaller clusters of subjects in the arts and humanities. The new structure will act as a single point of representation for graduate students working in these fields, ensure a consistent approach to graduate education across the arts and humanities, and make it easier to introduce new systems or processes.
Through the Graduate School it is hoped to enhance School-wide graduate training programmes, improve coordination of good practice in graduate education, and create more effective School-wide capacity to respond to changes and challenges. It will also provide a stronger voice for the Arts and Humanities at graduate level in consultations with external bodies, such as the Research Councils or the Government, on matters relating to postgraduate education.
The Graduate School will be led by an executive made up of existing senior members of the School of Arts and Humanities. Degree Committees will meanwhile continue to function in their role as the bodies which have a much closer oversight of graduates on a subject-by-subject basis, and continue to oversee graduate admissions, the smooth running of courses, and examinations.
Professor Philip Ford, Chair of the School’s Graduate Education Committee, commented: “We are delighted that the School of Arts and Humanities is at the forefront of developments in postgraduate education in Cambridge. The new Graduate School will strengthen our standing with the research councils and facilitate improvements in the postgraduate experience of Arts and Humanities students in Cambridge.”
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