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The announcement that the Universities of Sussex and Brighton have made a joint bid for a received widespread local media coverage - and all of it was positive. The Evening Argus ran the story on its front page (16 Nov) and both BBC Southern Counties Radio and Surf 107 FM covered it in their hourly bulletins throughout the day. University Registrar & Secretary Neil Gershon was interviewed for several news reports, including the breakfast show on Southern Counties. The story was also the lead item in the Argus' opinion column (16 Nov), which made the point that if the bid is approved, a medical school will make Brighton "a centre of excellence for medicine" as well as being a major investment in the area.

Another Sussex story that made not only the local press, but also national and international news coverage, was Professor Mike Land's research into how cricketers hit fast balls. All the daily broadsheets, most of the tabloids and BBC Radio 4 news (20 Nov) reported Mike's findings that batsmen take their eyes off the ball before hitting it. Mike, a neuroscientist in BIOLS, was also filmed by BBC South Today (21 Nov) and Sky News (22 Nov) and interviewed live for a South African radio programme (24 Nov).

A study by Angela Jacklin and Vivienne Griffiths from the Institute of Education on why teachers are reluctant to push for promotion was covered by the Times Education Supplement (3 Nov) and featured in the Evening Argus (13 Nov).

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