UCISA CISG 2013 – Conference Notes

The UCISA Corporate Information Systems Group (CISG) held its annual conference in Brighton on November 20-22. Around 200 delegates from Universities from across the UK gathered at the Grand Hotel to both listen and participate. I’ve attached a more detailed…

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Apple the most popular platform with students

The long held belief that our students rely upon Windows and Internet Explorer has been destroyed by the latest wireless statistics.  In the first two weeks of the new term here at Plymouth University we collected statistics on the browser…

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A marmite moment…..

University league tables are a bit like Marmite – you either love ‘em or hate ‘em – or maybe they’re more like playing Snakes and Ladders – up in some and down in others.  One Vice-Chancellor recently said, “When you…

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Plymouth University upgrade enables students to stay better connected

Students at Plymouth University now have access to one of the fastest internet connections at any UK higher education institution following a major upgrade. Technicians spent the summer break overhauling the wired and wireless networks in more than 1,700 student…

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New S&A team member – David Rickhuss

David Rickhuss will be joining the Technology & Information Services Directorate on 30 September to work alongside our existing Client Exec team – Nick Sharratt, Natasha Harden and Dave Fleming.  David has spent the past five years working for Flybe…

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ALT-C 2013

Last week Naomi Fenn and I travelled to Nottingham to attend ALT-C 2013. This was the 20th anniversary of the conference and, true to form, summarised the current issues surrounding Higher Education, and how Technology could be utilised to respond…

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New Beginnings..

  September is my favourite month of the year – buzzing with activity and excitement.  It marks both the beginning of a new academic year as we welcome our new students and the end of the past year as we…

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