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A consortium of six universities led by the University of Surrey has won a £12.5m grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), to promote the sustained excellence of physics in the South East. The South East Physics Network (SEPNET) will have a collaborative Graduate School providing advanced research training for PhD students across the region, and will offer innovative MSc programmes.

nine-hour drinking binge, has been banned from driving for 20 months. Martin Pulman, who was studying chemical engineering, left in February earlier this year.

It is generally more expensive to rent student accommodation in the south of the country. Surrey, Middlesex, Cambridge, Exeter, Oxford and Brighton are all 20% or more costly than the UK norm.

Guildford’s award-winning professional open-air theatre company, Guildford Shakespeare Company, is returning for their third season, performing at the University of Surrey. The university lake will form a stunning backdrop of water, willows and waddling ducks as the Forest of Arden for Shakespeare’s classic tale of following your heart’s desire: As You Like It. Running from July 17 to 26, this gloriously sunny comedy is the perfect accompaniment to a summer evening, where “All the world’s a stage…”.

In a study to be published in the European Journal of Nutrition, Dr Bruce Griffin of the Centre for Nutrition and Food Safety at the University of Surrey found eggs ‘have no clinically significant impact on heart disease or cholesterol levels. Dr Bruce Griffin said that eggs are incredibly nutritious and should not be excluded from any diet.

The University of Surrey is ranked 30th overall in the 2009 Good University Guide. This is up from 35th last year. The University of Surrey was rated: first in the country for the study of food science, third for nursing and sociology, fourth for drama, dance and cinematics, fifth for other subjects allied to medicine, sixth for biological sciences, seventh for computer science, eighth for mathematics, ninth for electrical and electronic engineering and tenth for Russian

The University of Surrey is ranked 23rd overall in the 2009 Guardian University Guide. This is up from 25th last year. In the Guardian guide Surrey was rated: second in the country for the study of tourism, transport and travel, fifth in sociology, sixth in biosciences and seventh in media and communication studies.

Well, the last barefacts is finally here, at least for this academic year! It’s been a time of change. barefacts, of course, saw a makeover back in October under the then Editor Gareth Giles. Then the lovely deputy (maybe I’m biased) took over as Editor in January! It’s been an eventful year all round here at Surrey, and I know I speak for the team when I say we’ve had a great time reporting it all to you. I myself have had one of the best, if not the best, times of my Uni life at Surrey being Editor this year. I myself have finished my Degree here! Well, one of them anyway, am i mad staying to do an MA??. So I am using this powerful tool that is the print media (sorry to go all Rupert Murdoch on you) to say that I have had a wonderful time here at Surrey. I would like to say a MASSIVE thank you to all the barefacts team past and present! Gareth, Ben, Emma, Colin, Simon, Verity, Alex, Amul, David, Matt, Tony and Megladon Jake. I have had a fabulous time working with you all, and without you I don’t think I’d still have all my hair. I’d more likely be wrapped in a straight-jacket (many people would argue that I should be anyway). However, I’d also like to wish everyone the best of luck in whatever they do. Surrey has proven to be an experience of a lifetime and I hope that everyone who graduates this year feels the same. I urge everyone who is not sadly leaving in a month to consider joining barefacts in September. It is an amazing opportunity, as well as looking great on your C.V. So if you want to be a journalist, or maybe just an agony aunt, then please, please, please join the wonderful insituition which is barefacts!

The University’s controversial plans to change the academic year were being scrutinised heavily this week. With debate raging on the internet, GU2 and around campus about the communication process, many students were complaining about the lack of consultation by both the Union and University.

The plans themselves were printed in the new prospectus for applicants this year, and are now available on the University website. As of 2009, current students will begin on October

However, current students complain that not only were they not informed that this change was in place, they were poorly informed that a consultation was in process. The Facebook group “Save Our Academic Year!” has attracted over 1,500 students, and made headlines in the Guildford Times and on the Surrey Advertiser website, while a petition created by the group to ask the University to communicate better had attracted 477 signatures when barefacts went to press.

While many students in the group seem to be resigned to the changes, others are hopeful that the University’s decision can be reversed. “The semester changes aren’t technically set in stone yet,” said Jack Colby, writing on the wall of the Facebook group, “I think that we should protest”.

different shows addressing the issues students have raised. An interview by Jack Colby, Warren Scotford Smith and Missy Edwards with Harry Holkham, also of the Facebook group, is to be presented to the Vice-Chancellor to ask if he would like to publicise the changes and answer questions on the station.

The Union released a statement on Thursday evening to explain its position on the issue and the consultation process it had performed. The statement also contained a comment by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor stating the university’s “regret” about the announcement being made to new applicants before students and staff, and promising more details about the plans in a University statement next week.

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