{"id":119,"date":"2011-05-06T11:35:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=119"},"modified":"2011-05-11T12:19:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T12:19:35","slug":"1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/06\/1999\/","title":{"rendered":"1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor Tony Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro-Vice Chancellor Mary Stuart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro-Vice Chancellor Nigel Lewellyn<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sussex wins eight Marie Curie Training Sites awards out of 53 awarded in the UK for research training excellence for PhD students across disciplines<\/li>\n<li>Alun Howkins writes and presents a four-part BBC TV documentary series \u2018<em>Fruitful Earth\u2019<\/em> covering 6,500 years of British farming history<\/li>\n<li>UG student Kevin Apps co-discovers six new extra-solar planets<\/li>\n<li>President of the Students\u2019 Union Becca Holyhead is elected for a second term, only the second time this has happened in 20 years<\/li>\n<li>There is an upturn in overseas students<\/li>\n<li>Government policy recognises the value of overseas students in developing goodwill between countries<\/li>\n<li>The Centre for Legal Studies is now a School with Professor Harry Rajak as Dean<\/li>\n<li>The School of Engineering is renamed the School of Engineering and Information Technology<\/li>\n<li>Increasing accountability to Government for public funding increases the administration burden of the University and is costly<\/li>\n<li>A strategic plan for the future of the University in the 21st century is underway: Sussex needs to be more competitive with an attractive curriculum to students including part-time pathways for mature students and continuing professional development courses<\/li>\n<li>Sussex and West Dean College form a partnership, Sussex now accredits all West Dean awards<\/li>\n<li>Students\u2019 Union magazine wins the Best Student Magazine in the NUS\/Independent National Student Journalism Awards, and the Shoestring Award in the Guardian student awards (for excellence on a limited budget), and is short listed for the Student Magazine of the Year Awards<\/li>\n<li>Alumnus Thabo Mbeki becomes President of South Africa. He was the first black South African student at Sussex and received an honorary doctorate in 1995<\/li>\n<li>Helena Normanton the first woman barrister to practice in the UK and one of the first donors to the fund to set up Sussex, leaves a bequest of \u00a3400,000 via her niece to support founding scholarships for the School of Legal Studies<\/li>\n<li>Professor Helen Wallace, founding director of the Sussex European Institute, becomes a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Queen\u2019s New Years Honours List<\/li>\n<li>Phase two of the Innovation Centre commences. It is hoped it will create up to 150 new hi-tech jobs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor Tony Moore Pro-Vice Chancellor Mary Stuart Pro-Vice Chancellor Nigel Lewellyn Sussex wins eight Marie Curie Training Sites awards out of 53 awarded in the UK for research training excellence for PhD students across disciplines Alun Howkins writes and presents a four-part BBC TV documentary series \u2018Fruitful Earth\u2019 covering 6,500 years of British farming [&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\/119"}],"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=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}