The list also appears to exclude all non-English Universities - not a
single Scottish, Welsh or NI institution that I can see. But I'm not too
fussed about not knowing where my institution fits in this list:
I find the ranking list frustrating rather than insightful - very much like
those "The Top 10 [insert category here], Ever" TV shows. Although the
criteria are vaguely discussed in the article we've actually no idea how
they were weighted, and Paul's point about the demographic is well made. It
would however be nice to know just what will capture the interest of that
demographic - if your priority is undergraduate recruitment of school
leavers. It was good to see HEIST's response in the article about catering
for disparate stakeholder groups: there's often a view from up on high that
the web site is only a tool for recruiting teenagers.
It's nice to see the topics in the article being discussed in a mainstream
publication, but it's much the same issues as we were banging on about
circa 8 years ago when we were still having to make the case for
universities to put any thought/resourcing into it at all. Perhaps it will
help to remind those "up there" that the issue didn't go away when they let
us buy a new web server all those years ago.
Regards,
Iain
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:51:37 +0100, Paul Boag <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Hi all,
>I don't know how many of you saw the Guardian online article today
discussing the top 100 university web sites:
>
>HYPERLINK "http://education.guardian.co.uk/university2005/advice/student/st
ory/0,15966,1510756,00.html"http://education.guardian.co.uk/university2005/a
dvice/student/story/0,15966,1510756,00.html
>
>I was just wondering what you thought of it. I have to say that even
though one of the sites I worked on came second, that I felt the whole
thing seemed to be a little naive.
>
>The site was evaluated by only 13 students all of which were English A
level students. There is only one small mention in the entire article about
the challenges faced by Universities to cater for a vast array of different
people from Post Graduate research students to overseas students.
>
>Anyway if you want to know where your university ranked then check out:
>
>HYPERLINK "http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/specialreport/table/0,986
1,1510721,00.html"http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/specialreport/table
/0,9861,1510721,00.html
>
>Thanks,
>Paul
>
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