Is your website ready for the Research Excellence Framework?
The introduction of a new method of research assessment, the Research Excellence Framework (REF), poses new challenges to higher education institutions throughout the UK [...]
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Search Engine Optimisation for Content Editors
It often surprises me how little emphasis many institutions place on search engine optimisation. Many believe that the sheer size of their site and regularity of their updates is sufficient to succeed in their online marketplace. For me, this theory just doesn't wash [...]
What is XCRI-CAP and how can it help your institution?
Universities and colleges produce course information for a variety of purposes and duplication of effort and information is a costly problem. XCRI-CAP aims to solve this problem by developing specifications that make generic aspects of a course description publicly available and easily transferable between information systems [...]
Write for your audience, not internal stakeholder groups
You're thrilled to have just received budget to overhaul a section of your website. You're excited to get started as the current website is performing badly and you can't wait to get all of the stakeholders together to discuss requirements and propose a way forward [...]
Key Information Sets in Action
As today is the deadline for UK universities to implement the Key Information Sets (KIS) widget, we decided to see how Higher Education web teams across the country have tackled the project. [...]