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• 23 September 2016
• • University of Sussex ranked 18th in The Times and Sunday Times league table
  • Sussex celebrates top-150 position in biggest-ever world rankings
  • Have your say on campus car parking
  • Sussex staff invited to contribute to independent review
  • Staff and students to provide feedback on Freedom of Speech policy
  • Sussex helps transform the lives of disengaged Croydon schoolchildren
  • Your chance to run or volunteer at the 2017 Brighton Marathon or 10K
  • British attachment to nuclear submarines drives bias towards nuclear power
  • Risk of another Chernobyl or Fukushima type accident plausible, experts say
  • Through The Looking Glass – Sussex academic curates first ever virtual exhibition of Dalziel Brother
  • Exhibitions help to restore India’s ‘lost’ botanical heritage
  • Skateboarding film shortlisted for national award
  • New Sussex-Lund partnership promises Middle East study collaboration
  • Writivism 2016: Sussex nurturing Africa's future writers
  • News in brief

News in brief

Encourage your students to nominate themselves for Student Rep positions; Solar-powered campus bins able to devour more waste; Open courses - languages for life: enrol now; Clean water for the Polireddypeta community thanks to Sussex students and staff; Sussex academics bring leading experts together for refugee resettlement conference;

Encourage your students to nominate themselves for Student Rep positions

Nominations are now open for Student Rep positions. There is less than one week left for students to nominate themselves for a Student Rep position. Please encourage your students to nominate themselves for Student Rep positions and get involved in making change happen. Student Reps are a crucial part of the feedback and decision-making processes across the University. The process for students to nominate themselves is easy. Due to issues with logins to the Students' Union website, the deadline for nominations has been extended until 12:00 midday on Tuesday 27 September 2016. Online voting for Student Reps will take place on 28 and 29 September 2016. More information.

Solar-powered campus bins able to devour more waste

Sussex Estates and Facilities (SEF) have invested in a set of solar-powered bins on campus that can swallow up to five times more waste than a normal bin. The eight new Bigbelly bins use the sun’s powerful rays to compact the litter inside, meaning they can stomach loads more rubbish.

The hi-tech bins also use super-smart tracking systems to send text and email messages to SEF when they are full and need emptying. A solar-powered unit takes up roughly the same footprint of an existing bin but runs entirely on the sun's energy and, even in low light, powers a 12-volt battery.

Open courses - languages for life: enrol now

(c) James Hood

The Sussex Centre for Language Studies (based in Arts A) recognises that University students, staff and members of the local community will, as global citizens, travel, live and work in countries across the world.

The SCLS offer courses for a range of languages over two terms in the evenings and during some lunch times. These courses are open to students, staff and members of the public.  Language courses taught include: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), British Sign Language, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Latin, Japanese and Russian. 

If you want to add a language to your skills and make the most of your evenings in a friendly and enjoyable environment, enrol now! Course fees are very competitive. To enrol and for further information on our courses, see the SCLS website or contact the Course Coordinator on ext. (87) 2890 or E opencourses@sussex.ac.uk. Courses start on Monday 26 September (week 2 of the autumn term).

Clean water for the Polireddypeta community thanks to Sussex students and staff

Chartwells and SussexFood, in partnership with Life Water and water charity drop4drop, are delighted to announce that we have successfully funded the installation of a brand-new water well in an Indian community previously living without a source of clean water.

Thanks to all the bottles of water purchased by the students and staff at the University of Sussex, we have been able to make a real difference to those who so desperately needed it. Supplying safe drinking water to communities who would have previously had to travel a long way to find it is a lifesaving cause and we could not be prouder to be involved.

SussexFood are a loyal supporter of Life Water; working with drop4drop they supply clean drinking water to those who do not have access to it. More information.

Sussex academics bring leading experts together for refugee resettlement conference

International experts working on refugee resettlement have come together for the first time at the University of Sussex.

Academics from across the global university sector, along with representatives from the British Refugee Council, Refugee Action, Scottish Refugee Council, the UN Refugee Agency, the International Organisation for Migration, national and local government as well as a good number of refugees themselves, took part in the three day conference, which was held to coincide with the 10th anniversary of a group of Ethiopian refugees resettling in Brighton and Hove. More information.