Students and staff at the University of Sussex have united in angry protest against proposed cutbacks at the Brighton and Hove institution. The cutbacks will include a complete scrapping of the study of English history before 1700, a move leading historians have warned “puts in peril the public function of history,” and risks “entrenching the ignorance of the present.”
A one day strike by staff is planned for today – strike action which students insist they are “right behind”. For almost a week, a group of around 300 students have been staging a sit-in protest in a university lecture hall.
It follows ugly scenes two weeks ago, when students stormed a university administration building, and clashed violently with riot police on campus.
