{"id":104,"date":"2011-05-06T11:24:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=104"},"modified":"2011-05-06T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:27:23","slug":"1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/06\/1993\/","title":{"rendered":"1993"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Pro-Chancellor Richard Attenborough is awarded a life peerage      in the Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours<\/li>\n<li>Sussex has five British Academy Fellows and 18 Fellows of the Royal      Society<\/li>\n<li>21 professorial appointments are made; 15 internal and six external<\/li>\n<li>There are a raft of development plans, including a modest      increase in student numbers; an increase in research funding especially      through contracts, services and consultancies; the expansion of student      housing; a development programme aimed at improving shopping,      entertainment, sports facilities, a new children\u2019s facility and new Students\u2019      Union offices; and a redesign of existing buildings to provide much-needed      space for academic activities; and information services including a new      part-time education centre in Falmer House<\/li>\n<li>Mature students arrive via Access courses and Foundation      degrees in science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Student numbers<\/h3>\n<p>8,543 students: 6,282 undergraduates and 2,261 postgraduates<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 30 per cent of undergraduates are mature students, ie over 21 when they start their degree, and there is growing number in their late 50s and 60s<\/p>\n<h4>student gender ratio *<\/h4>\n<p>*at December 1993<\/p>\n<h4>Undergraduate humanities and social sciences<\/h4>\n<p>2,504 women: 1442 men<\/p>\n<h4>Undergraduate science and engineering<\/h4>\n<p>898 women: 1,438 men<\/p>\n<h4>Total undergraduates<\/h4>\n<p>3,402 women: 2,880 men<\/p>\n<h4>Postgraduate humanities and social sciences **<\/h4>\n<p>735 women: 647 men<\/p>\n<h4>Postgraduate science and engineering **<\/h4>\n<p>228 women: 534 men<\/p>\n<h4>Total postgraduates **<\/h4>\n<p>963 women: 1,181 men<\/p>\n<h4>Overall total **<\/h4>\n<p>4,365 women: 4,061 men<\/p>\n<p>** differences between these figures and the Student Numbers figures reflect different surveys and returns<\/p>\n<h3>Staff numbers<\/h3>\n<p>826 members of staff<\/p>\n<h4>Staff gender ratio<\/h4>\n<h4>Teaching faculty<\/h4>\n<p>125 women: 372 men<\/p>\n<h4>Research faculty<\/h4>\n<p>81 women: 174 men<\/p>\n<h4>Administration faculty<\/h4>\n<p>30 women: 44 men<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Chancellor Richard Attenborough is awarded a life peerage in the Queen\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}