Tag archives for University of Brighton
Good Grief: A New Festival for Hastings
FIONA MCGARRY A new four-day festival exploring grief, love and loss is coming to Hastings this May. It will take place over the late May Bank Holiday weekend and run…
Former University Building Under Hammer
The six-storey University of Brighton building at Priory Square was due to be auctioned on Wednesday this week by London agent Allsop. The building consists of the former main Hastings…
Exclusions and Appeals
The University of Brighton Academies Trust, which is the governing body of the Hastings Academy, sets out its exclusion policy on its website as follows: “Where the academy’s approaches towards…
Harry’s Game
By Mark Walter I must be honest, I didn’t know Harry McMorrow’s work until I saw a group of people overspilling from the Big Yin gallery in London Road, St…
New Halls of Residence for College
Plans have been announced for conversion of the former University of Brighton building on Havelock Road, and a property on Cambridge Gardens, into dedicated residential accommodation for students of East…
Arts diary
EDGE – WE MADE IT is a contemporary craft exhibition created by East Sussex College BA Designer Maker students that runs online from 1st March. All students have had to…
That Which I Once Knew and Thought
Merlin Betts interviews Katherine Weston-Smith and Sophie Shrubb, two students at UCH, about how they curated an exhibition at Dirty Old Gallery, West Street. The show is entitled “That Which…
University Of Brighton Buildings On The Market
By Emma Harwood Two buildings which formed part of the University of Brighton’s Hastings Campus, due to close in September, have been placed on the market with agents Bray Fox…
All Change at Empty Quarter
The Priory Quarter, the clutch of new and redeveloped buildings between Havelock Road and Priory Street that was intended to form centre stage of the University of Brighton campus in…
Bringing television back home
National TV broadcaster Channel 4 is intending to set up three regional creative ‘hubs’ when it moves outside London next year. Hastings is bidding to be one of them. The…
Sophie Barber, Winner of the CVAN Platform Graduate Award, by Thomas Denman
Sophie Barber with her painting 'Phil' A graduate of the University of Brighton’s BA (Hons) Fine Art Practice at Sussex Coast College, Hastings, has won the prestigious and much coveted…
Open Letter From Hastings Community Network
The University of Brighton recently concluded their consultation which proposes to change their Hastings Campus into a University Centre. The reason given for the proposed down grade was not being…
University of Brighton launches 3 month consultation on Hastings
After much confusion and protest following the announcement in March that the University of Brighton would be pulling out of Hastings, U of B have launched a 3 month public consultation…
Pole Position? – University “No Comment” On Suggestions Of Conflict Of Interest
Robert Joyce The University of Brighton are facing calls for transparency after it emerged that their new Deputy vice Chancellor faces a potential conflict of interest in relation to his…
University U-turn?
University of Brighton in Hastings Robert Joyce The University of Brighton have seemingly withdrawn their decision to close their operation in Hastings following growing legal pressure over the way their…
Hastings students fight back against university closure
Photo Credit: Hastings Solidarity Hundreds of people gathered in Hastings today to protest against the closure of the University of Brighton campus in Hastings, in the biggest student demonstration the…
Local Uproar as University of Brighton Announces Withdrawal from Hastings
photo credit: Sam Kinch Well, it has happened. The University of Brighton has released a strangely vague statement apparently announcing its pullout from Hastings over the next two years. No…