{"id":76,"date":"2011-05-06T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T09:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=76"},"modified":"2011-05-06T09:13:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T09:13:39","slug":"1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/06\/1980\/","title":{"rendered":"1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pro-Vice Chancellor Arts and Social Studies Margaret McGowan<\/strong> (the first woman PVC at Sussex)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The \u2018gathering storm\u2019 of the past few years has broken. The full      cost of a degree must be borne by overseas students, resulting in an eight      per cent loss of income for the University. Inflation is rising faster      than the funding can compensate for it. The increasing cost of staff is increasing      the deficit to more than 21 per cent. Also, the falling number of 18 to      21-year-olds means that the UGC are advising universities to cut their      home student numbers, with penalties applied if numbers exceed limits. The      Government is impervious to the continuous representations from the sector      on the harm being wrought<\/li>\n<li>The Group to Review Income and to Plan Expenditure (GRIPE) has      now reported and a large contraction is needed in a short space of time. This      poses great difficulties for the University as programmes last several      years and very few members of faculty leave. Compulsory redundancies seem      inevitable even though voluntary redundancy and early retirement is the      preferred method<\/li>\n<li>The intake of overseas students falls by 25 per cent and the      decline is set to continue<\/li>\n<li>Student unrest continues with a Library work-in 6-7 May, which      was part of a national campaign against Government cuts, some staff are present;      an occupation of Physics I on 12 May, putting the switchboard out of      action and resulting in the Bailiff being called; a re-occupation of Physics      I 13 May, due to Students\u2019 Union request for an extra sabbatical position of      Vice-President of Education being turned down; and Sussex House is also      occupied twice. 18 June a disciplinary committee is convened and 29 cases      heard. President of the Union and Vice-President of Finance resign before      the disciplinary panel after an EGM votes to attempt to prevent the      students from attending the panel. University has had adverse publicity      throughout the year as a consequence<\/li>\n<li>Library resources are shrinking as demand rises<\/li>\n<li>6-7 May students stage a \u2018work-in\u2019 in the Library to protest      against the Government cuts. The Library is open overnight for the first      time in its history<\/li>\n<li>Sussex is still high in the research tables: third to Oxbridge      for proportion of income derived from research grants and contracts (17.5      per cent against a national average of 12.3 per cent]. In the top 10 for      individual subjects in seven out of eight groupings, and first in Social      Studies<\/li>\n<li>BBC TV programme on how Sussex, Reading and Southampton work      with industry<\/li>\n<li>Geoff Lockwood completes his 20th year of working at the      University and is awarded a PhD; the first-ever Registrar to be awarded a PhD      by the university he works for<\/li>\n<li>In arts and social studies, an MA in Social Anthropology is introduced      and one in Linguistics is proposed<\/li>\n<li>The Mass Observation Archive and Granada TV begin a nationwide      survey of reactions to inflation and is also collecting unpublished      newspaper materials on this topic<\/li>\n<li>There are worries over declining student numbers in the      sciences and declining resource provision, and problems with staffing, especially      skilled research officers and post-doctoral research fellows<\/li>\n<li>Due to staff changes the School of Molecular Sciences changed      to School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Deliberations of the UGC cast a long shadow over the year\u2019 so      that The School of Education spent a great part of the year debating the      cuts and how to manage them. PG programmes remain buoyant despite the      economic gloom with the biggest growth in the science area. High number of      students have a job before finishing the PGCE programme<\/li>\n<li>1981 is International Year of the Disabled and events are organised      around Kulukundis House to raise awareness of the needs of disabled      students at Sussex<\/li>\n<li>All areas of Community Services have a difficult year.      Conferences drop off due to the economic circumstances and cut-price      offerings by polytechnics and other universities. Shops find trading      difficult although a new chemist is established<\/li>\n<li>Gardner Centre had the most difficult year in its history. Recession      bit deeper and the box office suffered accordingly and several productions      flopped, resulting in a restricted programme for next year<\/li>\n<li>Health Services is moved to Mantell Building as the temporary      building used since 1964 is dilapidated. There are worries that the health      service might have to be axed due to the cuts<\/li>\n<li>Eighteen per cent of last year\u2019s graduates are still unemployed      by the end of the year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Student numbers<\/h3>\n<h4>Sciences<\/h4>\n<p>Postgraduate intake decreases by 10 per cent<\/p>\n<p>Overseas student intake decreases by 13 per cent undergraduate and 31 per cent postgraduate<\/p>\n<h4>CCE<\/h4>\n<p>Over 3,000 students on 218 open courses throughout the region, professional development courses, residential courses and Saturday Schools<\/p>\n<h3>University of Sussex Association<\/h3>\n<p>The University of Sussex Association now has almost 1,000 members<\/p>\n<h4>Gender ratio<\/h4>\n<p>Two thirds of the student population in CCS and EURO are women, but there is an equal split in ENGAM and more men than women in SOCSCI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Vice Chancellor Arts and Social Studies Margaret McGowan (the first woman PVC at Sussex) The \u2018gathering storm\u2019 of the past few years has broken. 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