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Want to spend next year in California? Applications are now being accepted for the William and Olivia Allaway Scholarship 2000/01 which enables a Sussex undergraduate to spend a year at the University of California. The scholarship will be awarded by an essay competition which is open to students currently in their first year (or second year of a four-year programme) on all courses except those which involve a compulsory year abroad. Please contact Liz Wingfield in Arts B150 for further details and an application form. The closing date for entries is Friday 19 November.

Meningitis Any first-year, full-time, undergraduates who have not yet received the meningitis vaccination should make an appointment as soon as possible with the Health Centre. Please phone 249041 for an appointment or pop in. If you are registered with a doctor off campus, contact the surgery and explain you need an appointment for the meningitis vaccine.

Flu The flu vaccination is available to all students/staff registered with the Health Centre. Please phone 249041 between 9.30am and 4.30pm for an appointment.

Formative modes of assessment A Working Party, under the Chairmanship of Dr Stephen Burman (EAM), has been set up to look into the implementation, usage and effect of formative modes of assessment (i.e. a mode undertaken during the course, such as assessed coursework) within BA and LLB programmes. It is anticipated that it will report on the experiences of Schools, Subject Groups and students, the effect on learning and teaching, and make recommendations on preferred models in light of both internal and external consultations. The Working Party will approach Subject Group Chairs and Deans with a structured set of questions, and hopes to meet with students later in the year. Individual faculty members are invited to contribute to the Group's discussions by sending their views, preferably by email, to either Dr Burman (s.f.burman@susx.ac.uk) or Jim Guild in the Academic Office (j.guild@susx.ac.uk).

Wanted: seven students to serve on Senate Elections for seven student representatives on the Senate (in addition to the President and Education Officer of the Students' Union) will take place next month. Formal notices calling for nominations will be posted on 1 November; nominations will close on 12 November and the poll will take place the following week. The elected members will be drawn from a number of constituencies: Schools, postgraduate students, part-time students, mature students and international students. They will serve for the 1999-2000 academic year.