Congratulations go to Margaret Sharp, SPRU Senior Fellow, who received a life peerage in the list of Working Peers announced on Saturday 20th June 1998.
In her second speech in the House of Lords on 29 October, Baroness Sharp endorsed the report from the European Communities Committee that recommended spending £34 million on the Erasmus-Socrates scheme.
Drawing on her own experiences of the scheme, Margaret stressed what a "very eye-opening exercise" going abroad is for students. Referring to the programmes at Sussex which allow students from all disciplines to spend a year abroad, she focused in particular on the benefits to science students who often do not get such opportunities. She finished by pointing out the value to a university that having students from other countries can bring to a university "It acts as a catalyst; it gets the whole class talking."
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Friday 13th November 1998
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