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Shahriar — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:12:28 +0000

University of Greenwich doing well in education. Their teaching quality is excellent .

By: rizwan

rizwan — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:37:33 +0000

how come greenwhich is higher then other good universities?

By: Reasonable Robinson

Reasonable Robinson — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:44:21 +0000

It would be interesting to map the idea of ‘best’ university at different points of the ‘student/customer’ journey. It would also be interesting to see which universities make the mistaken conflation of employ-ability with likely employment and those which position themselves as educators of curious minds.

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Newsletter for August 2010 « UKOLN Update — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:10:00 +0000

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By: Revisiting The THE Table of UK University Web Sites « UK Web Focus

Revisiting The THE Table of UK University Web Sites « UK Web Focus — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:01:48 +0000

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By: pllatreille

pllatreille — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:00:58 +0000

Thanks for the response Brian (and the update to the entry). I’ve seen others (mis)interpret the table in the same way, so have posted a table showing the rankings (with totals) for the full top 20 here: http://pllatreille.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/uk-university-web-site-rankings/

By: Jason Pontius

Jason Pontius — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:10:07 +0000

This is a great post, thanks— and by no means are your conclusions specific to the UK. Here in the US the concerns are quite similar. And though the science of ranking higher educational Web sites has its limits— I’d like to see the criteria that could be achieved by code automation separated from those criteria, like “unique selling point,” that require communicators and subtlety— your conclusions are spot on.

By: Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus)

Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:10:27 +0000

Thanks for the comment. You’re correct – I trusted the table published in the THE. Mea culpa – I had assumed this was a trusted journal!

However I’m not too concerned about the ranking myself – although I appreciate that the 7 pages devoted to this feature article is likely to mean that the importance of the institutional Web site will be made visible to senior managers. So one might argue that this itself is valuable for institutional Web managers.

My main interest, however, was in flagging some of the points which were raised in the article.

By: links for 2010-08-25 « Michael Nolan

links for 2010-08-25 « Michael Nolan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:02:32 +0000

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By: Paul Latreille

Paul Latreille — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:22:45 +0000

Erm… Sorry Brian, but your post compounds any issues arising from the original methodology – the list of institutions in the THES (and hence the above) are in alphabetical,/i> order! If you do the sums from the original list you’ll see the ordering (based on total scores across categories) is as follows: 1st – University of Oxford (25); 2nd (jt) Edinburgh College of Art (24), Imperial College London (24), Teesside University (24); 5th University of Nottingham (23); 6th (jt) University College Falmouth (22), University of Greenwich (22), Harper Adams University College (22), University of Southampton (22); 10th (jt) University of Abertay Dundee (21); University of Cambridge (21); University of Exeter (21) and University of Glasgow (21).

By: Best UK University Web Sites – According to Sixth Formers (via UK Web Focus) | Web Development at Aberystwyth University

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:00:00 +0000

[...] This week's issue of the Times Higher Education contains a six page article on "Deciphering the code" which asks "do universities' websites tell prospective students what they need to know" and invites a panel of sixth-formers to identify the top University Web sites – and those which can be improved. What were the best performing institutional Web sites? The top ten sites are listed in the following table – and although I an aware that the metho … Read More [...]