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Visiting student status
The Board of Graduate Studies also admit as Graduaie Students a small number of applicants who wish lo undertake a period of two or three terms full-time supervised research in Cambridge as visiting students but do not intend lo become candidates for any Cambridge qualification. Application is made in the usual way and, if admitted, you will have access to the same facilities as a student registered for a qualification. You would not normally be permitted to continue for more than one year without registering for a Cambridge qualification.
Each application is considered on its merits, and leave to work in ainon-University research institution is not given as a matter of course.
In the event of such applications being granted, the applicant would be expected to attend such course work in the University as the Degree Committee concerned and the Board may determine, to take and pass a progress examination as prescribed by the Degree Committee, to reside within the residence radius, and to pay the University Composition Fee and College Fees.
The Board require an assurance by the Head of the institution concerned that the Graduate Student will be free, apart from a limited amount of teaching, to devote the whole of their time to their approved course of research, and that the Head of the institution will provide accommodation for the student for so long as they may need it to complete the requirements for any degree or other qualification for which the student may be registered.
Non-University research institutions where Graduate Students may work as candidates for research degrees of the University are the National Institute of Agricultural Botany; MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit; MRC Human Nutrition Research Resource Centre; the Animal Health Trust, Newmarket; Parke-Davis Neuroscience Research Centre; Sanger Centre; European Bioinformatics Institute; MRC UK Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre; Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association; Equine Fertility Unit, Newmarket; the Cambridge Crystal I ographic Data Centre; MRC Cancer Trials Office.
Graduate Students working in these institutions are registered through the most appropriate Degree Committee, usually Biological Sciences or Clinical Medicine and Clinical Veterinary Medicine.
Details of non-Universily research institutions where substantial numbers of research students work are included within the appropriate Degree Committee entries in this Chapter. Details of other institutions should be obtained direct from the Centre or Unit in which you are interested.
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