{"id":81,"date":"2011-05-06T10:57:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T10:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=81"},"modified":"2011-05-06T10:57:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T10:57:27","slug":"1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/06\/1982\/","title":{"rendered":"1982"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The financial situation is satisfactory but no better. The damage      to efficiency and effectiveness has been \u2018considerable\u2019 with a loss of      technical staff, reduction in teaching faculty from 485 to 389 and there      is still the need to lose another 27 posts. Many of the losses have been      senior members of faculty; the enhanced retirement plan funded by the Government      will end in September 1984<\/li>\n<li>The situation with overseas students is not as bad as      forecasted; only 20-30 per cent down, which might save some teaching posts<\/li>\n<li>Other radical changes being mooted by the Government including      the closure of institutions, academic tenure, two-year degrees and the end      of the binary system<\/li>\n<li>The Government begins the New Blood scheme, which allows      funding for universities to compete for new science and IT posts. Sussex is      awarded seven of the 312 posts available<\/li>\n<li>Sussex is still high in the research league table: first for      Physics and Chemistry, second in social sciences and fourth in Biology<\/li>\n<li>The Chancellor\u2019s Fund is announced by Lord Shawcroft in July      1982. It will focus on supporting teaching and research in medical studies,      computing and artificial intelligence and business and professional studies;      three areas the University wishes to pursue<\/li>\n<li>The two Victorian Houses where the University originated in      Preston Road, Brighton are converted into flats and named Shawcross House      in honour of Lord Shawcross<\/li>\n<li>British Caledonian sponsors up to 20 Nigerian students to do PG      degrees at Sussex over the next five years<\/li>\n<li>All UG places are filled without going to clearing, mainly      because there are fewer places on offer<\/li>\n<li>The very low number of women students studying science and      engineering programmes is recognised as a cause for concern. The Equal      Opportunities Commission (EOC) nominates 1984 as Women into Science and      Engineering Year, and Sussex is participating in ways to encourage women into      these subjects<\/li>\n<li>The American Studies year abroad is been suspended because      students can\u2019t afford to live in the US for a year<\/li>\n<li>2,000 people attend the British Association for the Advancement      of Science conference in August 1983, the largest conference held by the      University up to this point<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Staff numbers<\/h3>\n<h4>Teaching faculty staffing levels over the past five years<\/h4>\n<p>1978: 486<\/p>\n<p>1979: 482<\/p>\n<p>1980: 477<\/p>\n<p>1981: 463<\/p>\n<p>1982: 432<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The financial situation is satisfactory but no better. The damage to efficiency and effectiveness has been \u2018considerable\u2019 with a loss of technical staff, reduction in teaching faculty from 485 to 389 and there is still the need to lose another 27 posts. Many of the losses have been senior members of faculty; the enhanced retirement [&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\/81"}],"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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}