Insight blog: Useful Resources

A collection of the most useful resources that we have found whilst stumbling round in internet space including links to some of our favourite sites and articles about the world of students and social media.

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distinct Higher Education

In a crowded marketplace, and with uncertainty around funding and student numbers in the near future, a distinctive and compelling institutional identity is essential for survival.

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After A-levels: school-leavers look forward to new opportunities

Most people would thank their teachers or parents for a haul of two A*s and two As at A-level, but when Ony Akpenyi was awarded those results for chemistry, psychology, maths and biology last Thursday, she thanked Britain. Read More »

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Why Facebook is abandoning individuals in favour of communities for TRUE social marketing

“No one would want a commercial message inserted into a phone call” but this is how Richard Stacy sees advertising on Facebook as a social media platform. Read More »

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The £9,000 tuition fee club; Is this it or will there be more?

The BBC has produced a list of those universities that have confirmed or are expecting to charge over the £6,000 soft cap limit. Unsurprisingly the majority of the 17 confirmed are those in the Read More »

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Quantcast Ranks TSR 21st in GB

Quantcast is the first, and only, syndicated online traffic measurement service to achieve MRC accreditation for compliance with IAB measurement standards. Read More »

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Web trafficking tool Alexa ranks The Student Room

The Web Information Company, Alexa have recorded stats on The Student Room’s traffic over the past 3 months.

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Cambridge to charge £9,000 fees

Cambridge University plans to charge tuition fees of £9,000 a year from autumn next year – the maximum allowed, a leaked paper has revealed. Read More »

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Universities ‘to be ranked by graduate employment rates’

Universities face being ranked by a series of new-style measures such as graduate employment and average lecture sizes under Coalition plans to boost standards. Read More »

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KPMG introduces radical new scheme to attract would-be accountants

Professional services firm KPMG is working with Durham University and ICAEW (the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) to develop a ground-breaking new school-leavers’ programme for September 2011. Read More »

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New research predicts 9.4% increase in graduate vacancies

According to the latest study of graduate vacancies at Britain’s hundred leading employers, the number of graduate hires looks set to rise by 9.4% against last year’s total. Read More »

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