{"id":83,"date":"2011-05-06T10:58:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T10:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=83"},"modified":"2011-05-06T10:58:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T10:58:55","slug":"1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/06\/1983\/","title":{"rendered":"1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Still awaiting Government decisions on future funding, with vague      talk of the Government wanting better and more socially relevant HE at a lower      cost<\/li>\n<li>The UGC argues for small subject groups\/departments to be      closed because they are not efficient, but the VC feels that universities      should offer a wide range of programmes and defends decisions about the mix      of subjects on offer staying with universities and not the Government.<strong> <\/strong>Sussex is vulnerable in this      respect because of its interdisciplinarity and contextual teaching, and      increasing Government focus on vocational degrees<\/li>\n<li>There are similar worries about central intervention into      research by demanding research strategies which might limit the type of      research done. There is a need to find ways to work with the Government      without universities being turned into factories<\/li>\n<li>Institute of Cognitive and Information Services is established      June 1984 with Professor Christopher Longuet-Higgins as Director<\/li>\n<li>Sussex receives \u00a34.8 million in research grants and contracts<\/li>\n<li>CCE represents an expanding area of University activity with 4,700      students taking programmes \u2013 more than the entire full-time student body      of the university, which is an increase of 12 per cent from the previous      year. CCE is to be amalgamated with Education in order to secure finances      and strengthen the field<\/li>\n<li>An admissions video is made to improve the University\u2019s image,      with Richard Attenborough as executive producer<\/li>\n<li>New-style prospectus is launched<\/li>\n<li>A higher level than usual of student intake for students and      for the first time ever science bettered arts and social sciences<\/li>\n<li>November 1984 the Government decides to abolish the minimum      student maintenance grant and increase the scale of parental contribution;      \u2018a blow to the aspirations of many young people\u2019<\/li>\n<li>There are beginning to be second-generation Sussex students as      children follow parents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Student numbers<\/h3>\n<p>5,238 students: 3,566 undergraduates (3,556 full-time and 10 part-time students), 1,672 postgraduates (975 full-time, 297 part-time and 400 continuation)<\/p>\n<h4>Gender ratio<\/h4>\n<h4>Full-time undergraduates<\/h4>\n<p>1,901 men: 1,655 women<\/p>\n<p>Most women undergraduates in arts and social studies took English; the least took Human Sciences<\/p>\n<p>Most men undergraduates in arts and social studies took Economics; the least took Religious Studies<\/p>\n<p>Most women undergraduates in the sciences took Biology; the least took Electrical and Mechanical Engineering<\/p>\n<p>Most men undergraduates in the sciences took Mathematics; the least took Applied Science with the Management of Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still awaiting Government decisions on future funding, with vague talk of the Government wanting better and more socially relevant HE at a lower cost The UGC argues for small subject groups\/departments to be closed because they are not efficient, but the VC feels that universities should offer a wide range of programmes and defends decisions [&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\/83"}],"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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}