Vice-Chancellor Gordon Conway

• Research Assessment Exercise (RAE): Sussex receives top rating in six subjects (a ranking of 5) and second rating (a ranking of 4) in 12 other subjects. Seventy-two per cent of staff are in subjects that received top two rankings
• Sussex receives £1.5 million in research awards for chemistry; only Cambridge, Imperial and Oxford do better
• An Alumni and Development Office is established to support the University's 45,000 former students worldwide and co-ordinate fundraising appeals. £237,000 has been pledged this year
• November sees the launch of the Sussex European Institute
• Engineering is awarded a record £1 million in research awards
• The Sussex Enterprise Unit is launched to enhance the curriculum to enable students to build deeper personal skills and knowledge relevant to work and employers
• The British Academy honours Sussex with 72 awards in 1992: the national average is 22.5
• Four hundred leading scholars in feminism from around the world celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Leading actors, including Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walters read from her works and the conference finishes with a splendid fireworks display
• In January the Shawcross scholarship is established for graduates of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg for one Masters programme in Arts and Social Studies
• In March David Mellor organises a major exhibition The Sixties Art Scene in London at the Barbican Centre
• Professor Margaret McGowan and David Streeter become PVCs. Professor McGowan is the first woman to reach this position at Sussex
• Over 60 children from 16 schools in West Sussex receive certificates for successfully completing the Masterclasses in Technology
• In April Falmer House is declared a Grade 1 listed building. The Meeting House and Gardner Centre are awarded Grade 2 status
• The Students' Union send an aid convoy to Croatia
• Sussex University Dramatic Society perform Daisy Pulls it Off at the Brighton Festival
• In May the University produces a 'floppy disk' version of the prospectus for the first time
• Professor Jonathan Harvey's opera Inquest of Love receives its premiere and he is awarded £10,000 as the winner of the Britten Award for composition
• Over 1,000 students attend two graduation ceremonies at the Brighton Centre. An honorary degree is conferred upon Sir Dirk Bogarde among others
• IDS holds its first alumni reunion and 70 alumni from 29 countries attend the three-day event

Student numbers

CCE announces record-breaking numbers of students: 8,445 (577 full-time equivalent)