Month: January 2010

Union Council votes to postpone Israeli boycott referendum until autumn term On Friday, the University of Sussex’s Student Union (USSU) Council voted to postpone the re-running of the Israeli boycott…

With the ever growing mistrust of the Labour Party reaching new heights and creeping scepticism over the Conservatives and the substance of their policies, political pessimism is rife in Britain.…

The gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) rights advocacy group, Stonewall, released its yearly Workplace Equality Index earlier this month showing Brighton and Hove City Council in the top five…

University students suffer from a mere ’10-minute attention span’, a recent study suggests. The research, undergone by Olympus Technologies, also shows 21 % of students are struggling to attend lectures…

The Badger talks to Sussex comedy group Casual Violence! about black comedy, kitchen-sink dramas and urination Hannah: Okay so I’m here to talk to you about the Gradual decline of……

Dear Readers Welcome to the ‘teenies’! Although much of the print and televised news over the Christmas break was dominated by our national inability to deal with the snow, it…

Business secretary Lord Mandelson has declared that the government is to cut university funding in England by a total of £398m for 2010/11. The reduced allocations will witness £84m taken…

What fascinates and troubles me about the brain is what it wants and desires. I’m always acutely aware of the limits of my own free will: eat less, exercise more,…

“This is not an FAQ service – it’s a matter of choosing life” – Sussex Alumnus, 2002 – 2005 “I received a First Class honours degree from Sussex in 2005,…

Britain is under siege. Forget terrorism, forget recession. The snow is here. Anxious parents queue for hours stocking up on 40 jumbo-sized loo rolls and loaves of bread. Previously benign…

Today, I went to ‘CDEC,’ the Career Development and Employment Centre, a place which I seldom knew existed until last week, usually masked by a Bohemian fruit and veg market…

The University of Sussex has made a significant leap in the most recent Times Higher Education’s Student Experience poll, published earlier this month. The results, taken from nationwide surveys in…

Facebook is no longer just a social networking site. On New Year’s Day, a British student studying abroad in Mexico fell from a seventh-floor balcony after a night of celebration…

The University of Sussex is moving ahead with a £29 million project to replace older teaching buildings on campus. This is despite the backdrop of cuts of £5 million being…

For the first time the University of Sussex has put together equality figures which reveal that despite 53.2% of university staff being female, only 37.9% of aca­demic positions are held…

The Tories are set to clampdown on UK visas for foreign students, particularly those from Afghanistan and Pakistan. The proposal, put forward by Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Grayling, aims to…

A general election on the horizon, wars, famine and swine flu sweeping the globe, and the continuation of Sussex’s ever-steady tumble towards financial oblivion…So what’s everybody talking about? Snow. Well,…

A group of thieves broke into a student house in Hove on Tuesday and threat­ened to kill the students inside. The attack took place at about 9.30 pm in Albany…

A 14-year-old maths prodigy is set to break a 237-year-old record by becoming the youngest Cambridge University under­graduate since William Pitt the Younger. Arran Fernandez from Surrey has been offered…

Leicester University has published the results of a three-year longitudinal study looking at the way students experience their time in higher education. The study has highlighted high levels of January…