{"id":67,"date":"2011-05-06T08:53:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T08:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=67"},"modified":"2011-05-06T08:53:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T08:53:56","slug":"1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/06\/1976\/","title":{"rendered":"1976"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>HE, particularly universities, will have to justify itself in      terms of cost effectiveness and social relevance<\/li>\n<li>Sussex UGC is cut by 3.5 per cent for next year, which is      compounded by inflation and a minimum five per cent pay rise across the      board. This will lead to a deficit and possible redundancies and      restructuring<\/li>\n<li>An increase of the student body is planned: 4,500 by 1980-81<\/li>\n<li>Tuition fees are to greatly increase next year to \u00a3500 pa for home      UG and \u00a3750 for home PG, and \u00a3650 for overseas UG and \u00a3850 for overseas PG<\/li>\n<li>3-15 March 1977 students occupy Sussex house over fee increases      despite management offer of a hardship fund for students already hit by      the increase. The occupation is not against management, whose only      alternative would be to bear the rise and make redundancies, but against the      Government<\/li>\n<li>March 1977 Council offers a \u00a360,000 fee waiver package to      assist self-financing students<\/li>\n<li>31 May teaching is suspended for a day so that a debate on the      crisis in education could take place: 500 attend and the debate is \u2018quite      vigorous\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Large numbers of faculty are now of the age\/position where      promotion should be imminent, but the UGC has put a 40 per cent rule on      how many faculty can be paid at a higher grade<\/li>\n<li>Applications are increasing: by 2.3 per cent in arts and 7.6      per cent in science<\/li>\n<li>Links with local technical colleges means that students at      these colleges can take BSC honours degrees in engineering and applied      sciences. This will lower the barriers between the two sectors<\/li>\n<li>Joint Surrey\/Sussex Russian Studies programme will begin from October      1978: Russian language at Surry then three years of Russian Studies at      Sussex<\/li>\n<li>Sussex now has 13 Fellows of the Royal Society<\/li>\n<li>Nobel Prize winner Prof AJP Martin\u2019s name appears on an 11p      stamp to mark the centenary of the Royal Institute of Chemistry<\/li>\n<li>An oak tree is planted to commemorate the Queen\u2019s Silver      Jubilee, and Mass Observation is resuscitated to do a survey on the Jubilee      year<\/li>\n<li>New Thermo-fluid Mechanics building begins<\/li>\n<li>Refectory extension building completed to provide late-night      service to students<\/li>\n<li>More accommodation is planned north of East Slope<\/li>\n<li>Sir Basil Spence dies November 1976<\/li>\n<li>AFRAS is in its 14th year and still growing, with around 300      students and 33 members of faculty in the School. The interdisciplinary      nature of the School incorporates history, geography and social      anthropology as core subjects. Caribbean Studies is a new, popular area of      study, but the MA in South Asian Studies has been dropped though lack of      students. There are plans for an MA in Rural Development<\/li>\n<li>Profs J Maynard Smith and J Postgate of BIOLS are elected      Fellows of the Royal Society. \u2018Their honours bring great credit to the University\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Education teaching is hit particularly hard by national Government      spending cuts. Student numbers are cut by Government because of teacher      unemployment. West      Sussex is also affected by reduced numbers but remains open<\/li>\n<li>The Former Sussex Students Association is launched at the end      of 1975 and has its first AGM 1976-77. Membership is open to graduates,      those who failed to graduate, ex-employees and faculty. Membership is 300      and doubling every six months. It has a newspaper: <em>Falmer News<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quotes<\/p>\n<p>[There is a] \u2018growing shortfall between the expansion projections of the early 1970s and reality\u2019 <em>Sir Denys Wilkinson, third Vice-Chancellor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[This year has taught universities that the] \u2018long honeymoon that started with Plato\u2019s Academy is really over\u2019<\/p>\n<h3>Student numbers<\/h3>\n<p>4293 students: 3215 undergraduates, 109 visiting undergraduates, 443 postgraduates, 4 visiting postgraduates, 522 research students<\/p>\n<h4>Gender ratio<\/h4>\n<h4>Undergraduate arts <\/h4>\n<p>984 men: 1237 women<\/p>\n<h4>Undergraduate sciences<\/h4>\n<p>825 men: 278 women<\/p>\n<h4>Undergraduate education<\/h4>\n<p>six men: 10 women<\/p>\n<p>Certificate of Qualification in Social Work. (CQSW)<\/p>\n<p>3 Men: 16 women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HE, particularly universities, will have to justify itself in terms of cost effectiveness and social relevance Sussex UGC is cut by 3.5 per cent for next year, which is compounded by inflation and a minimum five per cent pay rise across the board. 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