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So we haven’t done that since! The file was sent to this mailing list so I can only assume that the CUG are somehow members or it was sent on by someone.

 

Thanks

 

John

 

 

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Hi Sally,

 

We would also be interested.  It is ridiculous that all of us are madly copying and pasting 70 tables into a spreadsheet at the same time.

 

If the league table are uncooperative, another option might be to ask for a couple of experienced volunteers willing to share their compiled spreadsheet with the mailing list – and we promise to buy their drinks at the next HESPA conference..?

 

Best wishes,

 

Naomi

 

 

 

Hi Sally

 

Yes please, I would be interested.

 

Please ask again!

 

I’ve also contacted CUG in the past and their response has been a no.

 

Thank you

Yat

 

 

Sally,

 

I think it would be worth asking – so yes please, ask on our behalf.

 

Louise

 

 

Hi Helen (and anyone else who is interested in this),

 

We did get a commitment to the release of spreadsheets, but only from the Times/Sunday Times and in practice this hasn’t been as useful as we’d hoped: we’d asked for the spreadsheets in advance of publication, to share under embargo, but the Times would only agree to release them after publication and this ended up happening about a week after the publication date.  When we (HESPA) shared the spreadsheet, the overwhelming response from colleagues was that this was far too late to be useful, so I stopped asking for it (it took a lot of chasing to ever get it).

 

I have spoken on a few occasions to the CUG about them sharing their data in this way, but they have always refused – as far as they are concerned, their target audience is prospective students and their parents/advisers, so they have little interest in making our lives easier (!). 

 

Sadly, I don’t think we’re likely to make much progress here, but I can ask again if people think that would be useful.

 

Best wishes,

Sally

 

 

 

Dear Jovan

 

A few years ago at a HESPA conference the league table providers promised to release the rankings in spreadsheets to save us all the duplicated efforts of downloading the tables manually.

 

Do you know if that got any traction? The Guardian already release their tables as a spreadsheet but with Complete releasing on Monday it would be useful to know if we’re all going to spend a morning copying and pasting.

 

Thanks

Helen

 

 

 

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