{"id":132,"date":"2011-05-06T12:05:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T12:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=132"},"modified":"2011-05-06T13:16:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:16:06","slug":"2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/06\/2005\/","title":{"rendered":"2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pro-Vice-Chancellor Joanne Wright<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro-Vice-Chancellor Bob Allison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deputy-Vice-Chancellor Paul Layzell<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sussex is to undergo further development, including the creation of a strong new senior academic leadership team<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>This is the first year of the new \u2018top up\u2019 fees for students<\/li>\n<li>The new International Study Centre opens and the first intake of 53 students start an International Foundation Year programme<\/li>\n<li>Eighty-five per cent of this year\u2019s student intake is from state schools<\/li>\n<li>New accommodation being built opposite Bramber House and near Falmer station offers 720 additional spaces<\/li>\n<li>East Slope is to be redeveloped by 2010<\/li>\n<li>Chichester Lecture Theatre is refurbished<\/li>\n<li>Part of Bramber House is to be refurbished as teaching space<\/li>\n<li>Sussex offers 225 UG programmes and 150 PG programmes<\/li>\n<li>Fifty-seven new academic posts are advertised<\/li>\n<li>SPRU celebrates its 40th anniversary with a three-day conference attended by 300 international scholars<\/li>\n<li>The Sussex Innovation Centre celebrates its 10th anniversary. More than 130 companies employing over 400 people have worked here<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quotes<\/p>\n<p>\u2018After 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.\u2019<\/p>\n<h3>Statistics<\/h3>\n<h4><em>THES<\/em> rankings<\/h4>\n<p>17th in UK<\/p>\n<p>43rd in Europe<\/p>\n<p>105 in the World<\/p>\n<h3>Student numbers<\/h3>\n<p>10,700 students from over 120 countries<\/p>\n<h4>Students by domicile<\/h4>\n<p>Home 79 per cent; overseas 21 per cent<\/p>\n<h4>Students by degree<\/h4>\n<p>Undergraduate 79 per cent; postgraduate 21 per cent<\/p>\n<h4>Most populous subject area <\/h4>\n<p>Undergraduate: Humanities<\/p>\n<p>Postgraduate: Humanities<\/p>\n<h4>Least populous subject area <\/h4>\n<p>Undergraduate: SPRU<\/p>\n<p>Postgraduate: IDS<\/p>\n<h4>Undergraduate students by age<\/h4>\n<p>Under 21: 75 per cent<\/p>\n<p>Over 21: 25 per cent<\/p>\n<h4>Gender ratio<\/h4>\n<p>Women 57 per cent: men 43 per cent<\/p>\n<h3>Staff gender ratio<\/h3>\n<h4>Faculty <\/h4>\n<p>Women 188: Men 340<\/p>\n<h4>Clerical<\/h4>\n<p>Women 45: Men 125<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&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\/132"}],"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=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}