{"id":102,"date":"2011-05-06T11:21:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=102"},"modified":"2011-05-06T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:21:03","slug":"1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/06\/1992\/","title":{"rendered":"1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vice-Chancellor Gordon Conway <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>Sussex receives \u00a31.5 million in research awards for chemistry; only      Cambridge, Imperial and Oxford do better<\/li>\n<li>An Alumni and Development Office is established to support the      University\u2019s 45,000 former students worldwide and co-ordinate fundraising      appeals. \u00a3237,000 has been pledged this year<\/li>\n<li>November sees the launch of the Sussex European Institute<\/li>\n<li>Engineering is awarded a record \u00a31 million in research awards<\/li>\n<li>The Sussex Enterprise Unit is launched to enhance the      curriculum to enable students to build deeper personal skills and      knowledge relevant to work and employers<\/li>\n<li>The British Academy honours Sussex with 72 awards in 1992: the      national average is 22.5<\/li>\n<li>Four hundred leading scholars in feminism from around the world      celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary      Wollstonecraft\u2019s <em>A Vindication of      the Rights of Women<\/em>. Leading actors, including Juliet Stevenson and      Harriet Walters read from her works and the conference finishes with a      splendid fireworks display<\/li>\n<li>In January the Shawcross scholarship is established for      graduates of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg for one      Masters programme in Arts and Social Studies<\/li>\n<li>In March David Mellor organises a major exhibition <em>The Sixties Art Scene in London<\/em> at      the Barbican Centre<\/li>\n<li>Professor Margaret McGowan and David Streeter become PVCs. Professor      McGowan is the first woman to reach this position at Sussex<\/li>\n<li>Over 60 children from 16 schools in West Sussex receive      certificates for successfully completing the Masterclasses in Technology<\/li>\n<li>In April Falmer House is declared a Grade 1 listed building.      The Meeting House and Gardner Centre are awarded Grade 2 status<\/li>\n<li>The Students\u2019 Union send an aid convoy to Croatia<\/li>\n<li>Sussex University Dramatic Society perform <em>Daisy Pulls it Off<\/em> at the Brighton Festival<\/li>\n<li>In May the University produces a \u2018floppy disk\u2019 version of the      prospectus for the first time<\/li>\n<li>Professor Jonathan Harvey\u2019s opera <em>Inquest of Love<\/em> receives its premiere and he is awarded \u00a310,000      as the winner of the Britten Award for composition<\/li>\n<li>Over 1,000 students attend two graduation ceremonies at the      Brighton Centre. An honorary degree is conferred upon Sir Dirk Bogarde      among others<\/li>\n<li>IDS holds its first alumni reunion and 70 alumni from 29      countries attend the three-day event<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Student numbers<\/h3>\n<p>CCE announces record-breaking numbers of students: <strong>8,445<\/strong> (577 full-time equivalent)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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