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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…

A protest was held in London at the Greek embassy for a British student accused of manslaughter. The student at Bournemouth Uni­versity, Andrew Symeou, is accused of killing Jonathan Hiles…

If you’ve been following the debate which followed last term’s referendum to ban Israeli produce from USSU stores, then very little of what follows will be news to you. If…

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…

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…

A video showing the protest on the 3rd December 2009 against over 100 proposed job cuts at the University of Sussex.

In a time where survival of the fittest means relatively nothing and most humans live to procreate despite illness, poverty and infertility, scientists are asking themselves the question: are we…