2005
May
6
Pro-Vice-Chancellor Joanne Wright
Pro-Vice-Chancellor Bob Allison
Deputy-Vice-Chancellor Paul Layzell
- Sussex is to undergo further development, including the creation of a strong new senior academic leadership team
- Sussex has a new mission statement, which includes contributing to the commonwealth of ideas and the development of society by pioneering research across disciplines, which inspires innovative thinking and our own teaching; attracting students with enquiring minds and offering a flexible curriculum that prepares them to be citizens of the world creative collaboration with business and communities, which supports social change and development; and creative collaboration with business and communities, which supports social change and development
- This is the first year of the new ‘top up’ fees for students
- The new International Study Centre opens and the first intake of 53 students start an International Foundation Year programme
- Eighty-five per cent of this year’s student intake is from state schools
- New accommodation being built opposite Bramber House and near Falmer station offers 720 additional spaces
- East Slope is to be redeveloped by 2010
- Chichester Lecture Theatre is refurbished
- Part of Bramber House is to be refurbished as teaching space
- Sussex offers 225 UG programmes and 150 PG programmes
- Fifty-seven new academic posts are advertised
- SPRU celebrates its 40th anniversary with a three-day conference attended by 300 international scholars
- The Sussex Innovation Centre celebrates its 10th anniversary. More than 130 companies employing over 400 people have worked here
Quotes
‘After nine years as Vice-Chancellor, later this year I will hand over to my successor the leadership of an institution that can face the future with confidence.’
Statistics
THES rankings
17th in UK
43rd in Europe
105 in the World
Student numbers
10,700 students from over 120 countries
Students by domicile
Home 79 per cent; overseas 21 per cent
Students by degree
Undergraduate 79 per cent; postgraduate 21 per cent
Most populous subject area
Undergraduate: Humanities
Postgraduate: Humanities
Least populous subject area
Undergraduate: SPRU
Postgraduate: IDS
Undergraduate students by age
Under 21: 75 per cent
Over 21: 25 per cent
Gender ratio
Women 57 per cent: men 43 per cent
Staff gender ratio
Faculty
Women 188: Men 340
Clerical
Women 45: Men 125