{"id":47,"date":"2011-05-05T14:31:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=47"},"modified":"2011-05-09T10:43:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T10:43:12","slug":"1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/05\/1968\/","title":{"rendered":"1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A cap on student numbers means the University focuses on      organisation and development rather than growth<\/li>\n<li>More student representation in the governance of the University      is proposed<\/li>\n<li>The University develops a planning process in which everyone      can be involved. This is an experimental innovation in Higher Education (HE)<\/li>\n<li>Student unrest continues. Although milder in Britain than      abroad, students have a bad name in the press<\/li>\n<li>Plans for student-owned housing and social centre in Brighton are      shelved through lack of funding<\/li>\n<li>The changing pattern of social life on campus means that large      dances are no longer popular and smaller activities are brought in.      Financial problems mean that smaller social events need to be organised<\/li>\n<li>A coffee bar is opened on campus in the evening<\/li>\n<li>The Sports Centre is opened and the Sports Federation organised<\/li>\n<li>The President\u2019s Appeal Fund is established to assist students      in financial hardship (student grants have not kept up with inflation)<\/li>\n<li>Sussex wins <em>University      Challenge:<\/em> the only university to win two series\u2019 outright<\/li>\n<li>The School of Education Studies is to be renamed School of      Cultural and Community Studies (CCS), and Music will be added to the      curriculum. The School of Social Studies is to become the School of Social      Sciences (SOCS). Latin and Intellectual History are to be added to the      School of European Studies (EURO) curriculum<\/li>\n<li>All undergraduates are following courses in the Arts\/Science      programme<\/li>\n<li>There are plans for a new BSc in Neurobiology<\/li>\n<li>A new project begins, using Nuffield Foundation funding to      allow students without an A level in Biology to take an elementary Biology      course instead<\/li>\n<li>In comparison with other institutions a high ratio of postgraduate      students receive Social Science Research Council studentships<\/li>\n<li>Dr TL Gardner, the University benefactor, dies in July 1969<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Student numbers<\/h3>\n<p>768 postgraduate students<\/p>\n<h4>BIOLS<\/h4>\n<p>A large increase in students from 225 to 339<\/p>\n<h3>Gender ratio<\/h3>\n<h4>Postgraduate arts<\/h4>\n<p>257 men: 81 women<\/p>\n<h4>Postgraduate sciences<\/h4>\n<p>390 men: 40 women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cap on student numbers means the University focuses on organisation and development rather than growth More student representation in the governance of the University is proposed The University develops a planning process in which everyone can be involved. This is an experimental innovation in Higher Education (HE) Student unrest continues. Although milder in Britain [&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\/47"}],"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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}