1998
May
6
Vice-Chancellor Alasdair Smith Tony Binns, Dorothy Sheridan and Nicola Woods win the Teaching Awards Gordon Conway is made President of the Rockefeller Foundation The proposed Medical School is not going ahead but a future bid is not ruled out Recruitment from the East Asian market has suffered because of the Asian financial crisis New science […]
1997
May
6
Fourteen new professors are appointed; 11 internally and three externally Sussex is still in the top twelve UK universities and seventh in the Research League tables, but the gap between Oxbridge and the rest is widening because of the effects of the RAE Sussex ranks 20th among old universities for research students but needs more […]
1996
May
6
This year’s focus is on research and the link between research and teaching RAE results are announced. Sussex research is awarded 11 ‘5’ grades and one ‘5*’ (compared with five ‘5’ grades in the 1992 RAE). Sussex is ranked 12th (out of 190) in the League of Research Universities with 88 members of staff research-active […]
1995
May
6
Harry Kroto is knighted in the New Year’s Honours list Twelve new professors are appointed: five internally and seven externally Work on Essex House, the Innovation Centre and Kings’ Road is nearing completion The Government continues to cut funding year on year – 28 per cent has been cut over the last six years, plus […]
1994
May
6
The RAE represents a threat to Sussex’s interdisciplinary tradition because it is discipline-based. Nonetheless the University does well in the 1992 exercise Ten new professors are appointed; six internal and four external Twelve new Research Centres are set up across the University to improve PG teaching and research Quentin and Ann Olivier Bell are awarded […]
1993
May
6
Pro-Chancellor Richard Attenborough is awarded a life peerage in the Queen’s Birthday Honours Sussex has five British Academy Fellows and 18 Fellows of the Royal Society 21 professorial appointments are made; 15 internal and six external There are a raft of development plans, including a modest increase in student numbers; an increase in research funding […]
1992
May
6
Vice-Chancellor Gordon Conway Research Assessment Exercise (RAE): Sussex receives top rating in six subjects (a ranking of 5) and second rating (a ranking of 4) in 12 other subjects. Seventy-two per cent of staff are in subjects that received top two rankings Sussex receives £1.5 million in research awards for chemistry; only Cambridge, Imperial and […]
1991
May
6
Sussex is in the top 10 of research universities. Six of the seven subject groups at Sussex came in the top ratings of four and five of the UFC research-selectivity exercise which denotes national and international excellence For the third year running Sussex becomes the highest ranking university in the country outside the ‘golden triangle’ […]
1990
May
6
The UK’s future lies in equipping future generations with the skills to expand the knowledge base. Sussex aims to do this by concentrating research on to areas key to economic, political and scientific progress Applications for UG places have increased by 45 per cent since 1988, with plans to increase student numbers to 7,500 in […]
1989
May
6
The VC reiterates that interdisciplinarity is a key aspect of the Sussex offering and goes on to say that the schools of study are key to this interdisciplinarity, which has led to totally new areas of study including artificial intelligence (language, maths, philosophy and psychology) and media studies (part of a broader development in the […]