{"id":94,"date":"2011-05-06T11:14:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=94"},"modified":"2011-05-06T11:14:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:14:38","slug":"1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/06\/1988\/","title":{"rendered":"1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong> <\/strong>\u20181990s will be a \u2018green\u2019      decade\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Parliament is now recognising science\u2019s concerns. Sussex must      take its place in research around the environment and offer programmes that      reflect these concerns \u2013 interdisciplinarity helps in this respect. Plans      include, for 1990, a new degree in Ecology and Conservation, and a Diploma      in Landscape Studies offered by CCE \u2013 a professional qualification for      planners, teachers and voluntary organisations<\/li>\n<li>Denis Healey, James Callaghan, Lord Carrington, Ian McEwan (a student      from the 1960s) and Andrei Sakharov are awarded honorary degrees<\/li>\n<li>The Faraday lectures are to come to Sussex in 1990-91; usually      a commercial organisation such as British Aerospace or British Telecom      organise these<\/li>\n<li>Sussex, in partnership with Brighton College of Technology and      other partners set up the first Access course for unemployed adults in      Earth and Life Sciences. Successful students will be able to apply for a place      at Sussex without the normal entrance requirements<\/li>\n<li>The first Shawcross scholar, from Malaysia, is admitted in autumn      1988<\/li>\n<li>In line with national policy Sussex admits an extra 145      students: an increase of 12.5 per cent<\/li>\n<li>Overseas students intake increases by more than 10 per cent<\/li>\n<li>A new four-year course in Engineering for students without      usual academic qualifications recruits 40 students in its first year      beginning in Oct 1989; demand is much greater than expected<\/li>\n<li>The University agrees to adopt a modular structure for its      degrees from 1992. Academic content will be unchanged but the structure      will be more flexible, allowing students to take time off during their      degree or transfer from other institutions without having to repeat work      completed successfully elsewhere<\/li>\n<li>Colin Eaborn is awarded the Main Group Chemistry Medal and      Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is the third member of staff      to be awarded this at Sussex, which is the first time this has happened in      any British university<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quick fact<\/p>\n<p>In 1980-81 most academic staff were aged 40-44; in 1988-89 most were aged 45-49, closely followed by the 50-54 cohort<\/p>\n<h3>Student numbers<\/h3>\n<p>4,975 students: 3,729 undergraduates, 1,246 postgraduates (890 full-time, 356 part-time)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u20181990s will be a \u2018green\u2019 decade\u2019 Parliament is now recognising science\u2019s concerns. Sussex must take its place in research around the environment and offer programmes that reflect these concerns \u2013 interdisciplinarity helps in this respect. Plans include, for 1990, a new degree in Ecology and Conservation, and a Diploma in Landscape Studies offered by CCE [&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\/94"}],"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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}