Writing about: Sussex VC reprimanded in Commons report

A senior chemist with close links to Sussex told THES: “Remarkably the biologists, medics and biochemists have agreed to forgo the investment in new academic posts that they had been promised to allow the funds to be transferred to rebuild chemistry.”

The chemists don’t want to merge, the biologists want to save chemistry, the RSC is spitting vitriol and now a commons select comittee is giving the VC a good kicking too.

Don’t misunderstand the situation: the future for many chemistry departments is not good, but Sussex should not be one of them.