Cut admin costs, not teaching!
May 18, 2009 by Sam Waterman · Leave a Comment
Universities Secretary, John Denham, argues for spending cuts, but not in education. (Photo: www.dailymail.co.uk)
John Denham, the Universities Secretary, has sent letters to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) urging universities to make savings in administration and waste costs, rather than cutting teaching and research funding. Denham wrote: “I am confident that we can find efficiency savings whilst protecting the quality of teaching and research.”
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Engineering for society
May 18, 2009 by Yasmine Fahmy and David Cichon · 1 Comment
When I first arrived at Sussex at the end of September 2008, I was very quickly overwhelmed with the excitement that surrounded my degree programme. Students and staff alike felt like this was the start of a new, futuristic concept.
It is a degree, one of the first of its kind, which enables students to combine engineering with development studies or environmental sciences. Creating a degree that adapts engineering to a globalised world and to the humanitarian and environmental concerns that society is facing today seems like an obvious step.
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Sussex hit by ‘massive’ cuts in government funding
March 9, 2009 by Joe Dyke · 2 Comments
While some departments like engineering did well in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, overall the University performed badly leading to the cuts in funding. (photo:sussex.ac.uk)
New figures released last Thursday revealed Sussex to be among the biggest losers in the latest round of government funding. The University will lose £1.15m pounds in research funding this year, the ninth biggest cut in England. The cuts in research funding, however, are partly offset by the 2% rise in teaching funding which is up £700,000.
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Contaminated water fountain in Engineering
November 17, 2008 by Patrick Scott · Leave a Comment
Illustration: Chris Harrisson
A suspected contaminated water fountain has resulted in a flood of complaints made by research students, who claim that the university has failed to remedy the health hazard.
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