The Essence of Privatisation
“The only way contractors make a profit is by cutting jobs and wages – that is the essence of privatisation.” Those were the words of Jeremy Corbyn, local MP for Islington North in London,[...]
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Numbers of female professors rising nationally and at Sussex
There has been a 4 percent rise in the number of women professors in universities throughout the UK, according to the latest survey. It is no different at the University of Sussex where there are[...]
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Higher education is not a ‘money-making commodity’
The University of Sussex’s Vice-Chancellor, Michael Farthing, has been appointed the new chairman of the 1994 Group. The group is a collective of leading research universities which promotes high standards of excellence with regard to[...]
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Sussex celebrates its 50th
While current Sussex students enjoyed their long summer break and freshers nervously awaited their all important results, the University of Sussex was alive with celebrations of the 50th anniversary of being granted its Royal Charter.[...]
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Sussex UCU is ‘unsatisfied’ with vice-chancellor response
Tensions between university staff and the vice-chancellor have flared up again as Sussex University and College Union (UCU) representatives reaffirm their plans for strike action over pensions. Members of the UCU – at Sussex and[...]
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Sussex Uni in top 20 in the Indy guide
For the second year in a row, the University of Sussex has been ranked as one of the UK’s top twenty universities by the Independent newspaper’s Complete University Guide. Published on 18 April, the 2011-2012[...]
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Remembering protests past
Cuts, occupations, strikes, suspensions, demos and even riot police. The last academic year at Sussex had it all. This week, one student activist offers a retrospective account of 2010-11 Laying out the Objective to The[...]
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Stephen Fry awarded honorary doctorate
Stephen Fry was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Sussex Chancellor, Sanjeev Bhaskar, at the winter graduation ceremony on Friday 28 January. Joined by almost 1,000 students, he received the doctorate at the[...]
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Students excused from seminars to protest fees in London
Students at Sussex will be excused from lectures and seminars this Wednesday, 10 November, as thousands of people from all over the country will gather to protest the looming cuts that higher education faces as[...]
Staff and students strike accord
It shouldn’t surprise me that students can be selfish people, and yet, on Wednesday, I was amazed at how many students strolled right past the picket lines. Some of them even refused to acknowledge the[...]
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