{"id":138,"date":"2011-05-06T13:12:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=138"},"modified":"2011-05-16T13:50:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T13:50:58","slug":"2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/06\/2008\/","title":{"rendered":"2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chancellor Sanjeev Bhaskar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro-Vice-Chancellor International Prof Chris Marlin <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gardner Centre will be reopened      following refurbishment and renamed the Attenborough Centre for the      Creative Arts. Sally Jane Norman is to be the first Director of the new      centre<\/li>\n<li>Sussex is 19th in the National      Student Survey: 86 per cent of students expressed satisfaction with their      learning experience<\/li>\n<li>The new Doctoral School wins a      national innovation award. There are plans to create a mentoring scheme to      develop the skills of early-career research staff<\/li>\n<li>Victoria Wood and Rory Bremner      visit the Mass Observation archive as part of a TV series called <em>Dear Diary<\/em> for BBC 4<\/li>\n<li>Sussex physicists participate in      the Hadron Collider experiment at CERN<\/li>\n<li>Sussex ecologist Professor Sue      Hartley receives rave reviews for her Royal Institution Christmas Lectures      on the 300-million-year conflict between plants and animals and how it has      shaped the world. Sue is only the fourth women to deliver lectures since      1825<\/li>\n<li>Work begins on the refurbishment      of the Library, which will be completed in 2011<\/li>\n<li>Applications to the new Business      School increase from 295 to 488, a 65 per cent rise. Economics is also up,      by 57.3 per cent, although nationally there was a slight decrease<\/li>\n<li>New teaching building is to be      opened in Summer 2010 and named Fulton after the first VC<\/li>\n<li>EDB is renamed Silverstone after      the first Media and Communication Professor Roger Silverstone<\/li>\n<li>Engineering 1 is renamed Shawcross      after the first Chancellor Lord Shawcross; Engineering 2 is renamed      Richmond after the second Chancellor the Duke of Richmond and Gordon;      Engineering 3 is renamed after John Clifford West, a pioneer of the applied      science department<\/li>\n<li>Twelve new school Heads are      appointed for the 12 new schools: 11 men and one woman<\/li>\n<li>Sussex student Julian Philips\u2019s      opera <em>The Yellow Sofa<\/em> is      premiered at Glyndebourne<\/li>\n<li>Sussex in partnership with V&amp;A      celebrates its 20th anniversary with a reception at the Museum of London<\/li>\n<li>University restructuring means      that 115 members of staff face redundancy in the face of Government cuts      to university funding<\/li>\n<li>Applications to Sussex increase by      32 per cent<\/li>\n<li>More student accommodation is      planned: 777 en-suite study bedrooms will be built in Northfield<\/li>\n<li>Sussex is awarded first-stage      accreditation for Environmental Management<\/li>\n<li>Overseas PG students increase by      56 per cent from 343 to 536. UG students increase by 11 per cent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Statistics<\/h3>\n<h4><em>THES<\/em> rankings<\/h4>\n<p>6th in UK for teaching and learning<\/p>\n<h4><em>Sunday Times <\/em>University guide ranking<\/h4>\n<p>Sussex 22nd<\/p>\n<h4><em>Guardian <\/em>University guide ranking<\/h4>\n<p>Sussex is 18th, up 15 places<\/p>\n<p>Top subjects: Chemistry (first); Sociology (fifth); American Studies (seventh); Biosciences (seventh)<\/p>\n<h4>Students by domicile<\/h4>\n<p>Home 83 per cent: overseas 17 per cent<\/p>\n<h4>Students by degree<\/h4>\n<p>Undergraduate 71 per cent: postgraduate 29 per cent<\/p>\n<h4>Gender ratio<\/h4>\n<p>Women 56 per cent: men 44 per cent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Sanjeev Bhaskar Pro-Vice-Chancellor International Prof Chris Marlin Gardner Centre will be reopened following refurbishment and renamed the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts. 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