Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor Tony Moore

Pro-Vice Chancellor Mary Stuary

Pro-Vice Chancellor Nigel Lewellyn

• Sussex wins eight Marie Curie Training Sites awards out of 53 awarded in the UK for research training excellence for PhD students across disciplines
• Alun Howkins writes and presents a four-part BBC TV documentary series 'Fruitful Earth' covering 6,500 years of British farming history
• UG student Kevin Apps co-discovers six new extra-solar planets
• President of the Students' Union Becca Holyhead is elected for a second term, only the second time this has happened in 20 years
• There is an upturn in overseas students
• Government policy recognises the value of overseas students in developing goodwill between countries
• The Centre for Legal Studies is now a School with Professor Harry Rajak as Dean
• The School of Engineering is renamed the School of Engineering and Information Technology
• Increasing accountability to Government for public funding increases the administration burden of the University and is costly
• A strategic plan for the future of the University in the 21st century is underway: Sussex needs to be more competitive with an attractive curriculum to students including part-time pathways for mature students and continuing professional development courses
• Sussex and West Dean College form a partnership, Sussex now accredits all West Dean awards
• Students' Union magazine wins the Best Student Magazine in the NUS/Independent National Student Journalism Awards, and the Shoestring Award in the Guardian student awards (for excellence on a limited budget), and is short listed for the Student Magazine of the Year Awards
• Alumnus Thabo Mbeki becomes President of South Africa. He was the first black South African student at Sussex and received an honorary doctorate in 1995
• Helena Normanton the first woman barrister to practice in the UK and one of the first donors to the fund to set up Sussex, leaves a bequest of £400,000 via her niece to support founding scholarships for the School of Legal Studies
• Professor Helen Wallace, founding director of the Sussex European Institute, becomes a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Queen's New Years Honours List
• Phase two of the Innovation Centre commences. It is hoped it will create up to 150 new hi-tech jobs