{"id":89,"date":"2011-05-06T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=89"},"modified":"2011-05-06T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:09:13","slug":"1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/06\/1986\/","title":{"rendered":"1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vice-Chancellor Sir Leslie Fielding<\/strong>, from October 1987<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Education is crucial for a knowledge-based future but the education      system is under critical scrutiny, with demands for greater accountability      for the state resources consumed; \u2018value for money\u2019 and \u2018relevance\u2019 are      watch words. Academic freedom has to be defended against bureaucratic      centralism. Sussex\u2019s progressive thinking is an advantage<\/li>\n<li>The VC wants Sussex to be less reliant on state funding, to      develop closer partnerships with other academic institutions and with      industries and services of the South-East, to widen access for students      with non-traditional qualifications, to review and adapt teaching methods      and research, and to widen international connections especially with the      EC<\/li>\n<li>Since the establishment of the Careers Advisory Board and the      appointment of careers tutors in each UG school, student unemployment      after graduation has dropped from around 20 per cent in 1983 to around eight      per cent in 1986 (around the national average for graduate unemployment),      and the number of students in employment has risen from around 60 per cent      in 1983 to around 70 per cent in 1986 (slightly better than the national      average)<\/li>\n<li>Management of the university another key concern as      intervention by the state increases exponentially, covering administration,      admissions, teaching standards, examinations, research support, training      and appraisal of staff, PG completion rates, budgets, and so on<\/li>\n<li>Sussex is the first British university to have a formal      corporate planning process, to practice budgetary devolution to individual      units and to create a joint Council-Senate Planning Committee<\/li>\n<li>Sussex has made major changes including restructuring administration,      reforming Senate, strengthening the role of Council and slimming down the      planning committee, and clarifying the role of VC. This year sees the first      moves towards a more managerial approach to administering the University<\/li>\n<li>Financial constraints are eased as the UGC awards Sussex the sixth      largest percentage increase in the UK. This is thought to be because      Sussex is focussing on research in engineering, computer science and      science policy research<\/li>\n<li>Research funded by industry is up 40 per cent and has increased      by more than \u00a3250,000 pounds in the last four years. Total research grants      and contracts are up 11 per cent to \u00a35.88 million<\/li>\n<li>Two major art collections are given to the University: watercolours,      sketches and woodcuts by the war artist Dorothy Coke; and works by Arnold      Dagahni, both of whom had lived in Brighton and Hove<\/li>\n<li>Eighty-one-year-old James Thornley becomes the oldest person in      Britain to earn a Doctorate: he graduates in Development Studies in summer      1987<\/li>\n<li>Three hundred mature trees are lost in the Great Storm which strikes      the South East in October 1987. Beeches, oaks, sycamores and elms which      survived Dutch Elm disease were lost<\/li>\n<li>Professor Denys Wilkinson and Sir Richard Attenborough are awarded      honorary degrees in summer 1987<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quote<\/p>\n<p>[The new School of Cognitive Studies is] \u2018a pioneering centre for research into intelligence and the mechanisms underlying it in humans, other animals or machines and builds on work at Sussex that has developed since the late 1960s\u2019 <em>Professor M Boden<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Undergraduate subjects areas in order of popularity (numbers are approximate)<\/h3>\n<p>Applied Social Science: over 600 students<\/p>\n<p>Languages: 600 students<\/p>\n<p>Humanities: 500 students<\/p>\n<p>Physical Sciences: over 400 students<\/p>\n<p>Biological Sciences: 400 students<\/p>\n<p>Other Social Sciences: 400 students<\/p>\n<p>Engineering: over 300 students<\/p>\n<p>Computing\/Maths: 300 students<\/p>\n<h3>Postgraduate subjects areas in order of popularity (numbers are approximate)<\/h3>\n<p>Applied Social Science: over 500 students<\/p>\n<p>Physical Sciences: over 200 students<\/p>\n<p>Languages: over 100 students<\/p>\n<p>Biological Sciences: 100students<\/p>\n<p>Other Social Sciences: 75 students<\/p>\n<p>Computing\/Maths: 75 students<\/p>\n<p>Engineering: 50 students<\/p>\n<p>Humanities: 50 students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-Chancellor Sir Leslie Fielding, from October 1987 Education is crucial for a knowledge-based future but the education system is under critical scrutiny, with demands for greater accountability for the state resources consumed; \u2018value for money\u2019 and \u2018relevance\u2019 are watch words. 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