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A recent National Union of Stu- dents (NUS) study has revealed that the difference between student expenditure and government funding has increased to £8,037 per student for the new academic…

In the past month there has been growing controversy surrounding the higher education policies adopted by the coalition government. One month ago, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) released a…

This week, the international physics organisation known as CERN published revelatory claims that a sub-atomic particle broke physical laws first solidly established by Einstein by travelling faster than the speed…

Language is the pinnacle of evolution; it has allowed humans to communicate with each other to build a complex network of interactions which has resulted in the world we live…

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…

Purse strings may be being tightened and fists planted firmly into pockets, but the luxurious practice of going to the theatre seems to have risen above the limitations of the…

It is clear a book is wonderful when it can lead you from rejoicing at the smallest, quietest achievements on one page to shedding tears of sorrow and despair on…

Books have a strength like no other – a book that has been enjoyed invokes a desire to share, to inform, to discuss. Passionate readers will be familiar with the…

A blue plaque marks 79 Marine Parade, the former Brighton home of playwright Terence Rattigan, and his residency in our city is also evident by the presence of his name…

For his Centenary Year, much of Terence Rattigan’s work has been given a dusting down and found its way back to the stage. Beneath the dust, however, it has become…

With Richard Bacon replacing Big Brother presenter Dermot O’Leary in this second instalment of Young Voters’ Question Time, the BBC were clearly responding to the negative press the new program…

Libraries have been part of our society for over 150 years, ever since the Public Libraries Act of 1850 deemed them an essential tool to ‘raise educational standards throughout society’.…

The pilot episode of Campus seemed a little too animated and familiar in format to its writer’s previous works, Green Wing and Smack the Pony, to meet the expectations of…

Virginia Woolf argued in her essay A Room of One’s Own, that a woman must possess an ‘incandescent and androgynous’ mind if she is to succeed; that the piece of…

Small Space was not set in Gala Bingo Car Park at all. A fact that was rather confusing on first arrival when the reception had no knowledge of any fringe…

Anima was about light and darkness as metaphors for life. How exposed are we or why do we chose to stay in the darkness? What does each of them bring…

This Time Tomorrow was quite possibly the best performance I have ever seen. Comprised of four fifteen minute vignettes taking place in four cars in Hanover Community Centre it was…

Apologising is one of the most distinctively British things out there. In a culture where one is taught to say sorry from a very early age, it has quickly become…

There is something novel about a performance in a shop window. Not quite as novel as it would have been a decade ago, since then the concept of watching a…

As a keen reader of the Observer Food Monthly, I was excited to be attending this event – especially to see restaurant critic Jay Rayner and chef Yottam Ottolenghi, two…