- A cap on student numbers means the University focuses on organisation and development rather than growth
- More student representation in the governance of the University is proposed
- The University develops a planning process in which everyone can be involved. This is an experimental innovation in Higher Education (HE)
- Student unrest continues. Although milder in Britain than abroad, students have a bad name in the press
- Plans for student-owned housing and social centre in Brighton are shelved through lack of funding
- The changing pattern of social life on campus means that large dances are no longer popular and smaller activities are brought in. Financial problems mean that smaller social events need to be organised
- A coffee bar is opened on campus in the evening
- The Sports Centre is opened and the Sports Federation organised
- The President's Appeal Fund is established to assist students in financial hardship (student grants have not kept up with inflation)
- Sussex wins University Challenge: the only university to win two series' outright
- The School of Education Studies is to be renamed School of Cultural and Community Studies (CCS), and Music will be added to the curriculum. The School of Social Studies is to become the School of Social Sciences (SOCS). Latin and Intellectual History are to be added to the School of European Studies (EURO) curriculum
- All undergraduates are following courses in the Arts/Science programme
- There are plans for a new BSc in Neurobiology
- A new project begins, using Nuffield Foundation funding to allow students without an A level in Biology to take an elementary Biology course instead
- In comparison with other institutions a high ratio of postgraduate students receive Social Science Research Council studentships
- Dr TL Gardner, the University benefactor, dies in July 1969
Student numbers
768 postgraduate students
BIOLS
A large increase in students from 225 to 339
Gender ratio
Postgraduate arts
257 men: 81 women
Postgraduate sciences
390 men: 40 women