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Education Consultancy ranked first in industry league table
Specialist education and skills consultancy Communications Management has been named the number one PR agency in the public sector outside of London and number six nationally. This ranking is the first public sector league table to be published by industry magazine PR Week. read more...
Green Colleges
LSC press release out yesterday - piggy back if you have something to say.
http://readingroom.lsc.gov.uk/lsc/National/nat-547RouteZeroCarbonFEColle...
CBI tells Balls to abandon diplomas scheme
· GCSEs and A-levels should stay, says bosses' leader
· Education system 'too stretched for exam change'
Polly Curtis, education editor
Monday June 23, 2008
The Guardian read more...
Students: Customers or learners?
By Mike Baker - BBC news story
Should university students be seen as learners or customers?
While you might argue they are both, the dividing line between the two has become dangerously blurred. This was underlined by two news stories this week. read more...
Student chefs wanted
Trade website bighospitality.co.uk has launched a new feature called Rising Stars and is looking for catering and hospitality students to take part. Ideal candidates will be showing a real enthusiasm for a career in hospitality and may have already achieved something of note. Participants should be happy to be interviewed and provide a digital photo of themselves. read more...
Top Uni Says A-Levels Not Good Enough - Piggy Back this story!
By Sky News SkyNews - Wednesday, June 4 One of the world's top universities is to trial its own entrance exam because A-level "grade inflation" has made it impossible to tell one straight-A candidate from another.
Sir Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial, announced the move as he called for extreme action to "save" bright children from underperforming state schools. read more...
Benchmark your College’s Marketing Processes
A new resource from The Knowledge Partnership
How market oriented is your college?
How well do you engage with external audiences?
Can you meet the challenges ahead?
How responsive are you?
Are you a learning organisation?
Do you want an efficient way of organising evidence to support Self-Assessment, Framework for Excellence, IiP, Audit and Inspection? read more...
Students claim survey dishonesty
By Sean Coughlan, BBC News education reporter (from the BBC)
Students claim universities are manipulating the survey
Students from a range of universities are claiming they are being pressed to make falsely enthusiastic responses to an official satisfaction survey. read more...
New Challenges. New Opportunities, the role of New Media in Crisis Communications. DISCOUNT FOR EMPRA MEMBERS
Does new media present us with a new way of communicating in a crisis situation? Are there tools and services available to make life easier and to make communication quicker, clearer and more ‘available’? Or is new media in itself a platform for causing a crisis and how do we deal with an online crisis situation? read more...
Great marketing tool for EMPRA members...
Map Analysis has something you'll probably want...
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Map Analysis Ltd are for a short time only providing a distribution map of learners for FREE! To obtain this map and accompanying table please complete the form attached; it really is that easy! read more...
