Via Wired Campus – Students beg for tuition money online. US only, although in this screenshot there’s a prominent slot for a Google Ads placed banner advert for Kingston University.

There’s a few UK institutions in the list including:

• University of Aberdeen
• Bournemouth University
• University of Bradford
• University of Chester
• Edge Hill University
• University of Hull
• Kingston University London
• University of Leeds
• University of Oxford
• University of Southampton

Above is a grab of the results for ‘newcastle university’, although the results update gradually, have a look yourself to see the effect.

Means little to me, but it might mean something to you:
“NEWCASTLE-BASED web publishing company HERO Ltd. has today announced the closure of the Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK (HERO) website (www.hero.ac.uk).

The HERO site will be withdrawn on 4th June 2009 with information from the current HERO site used by stakeholders to improve their own sites and services going forward.

This means that as an existing HEI or FEC Contact, Editor or Author on the HERO Content Management System (CMS) you will no longer be able to edit information for your institution via the HERO CMS from 3rd June 2009. User accounts and institutional data will be purged following the closure of the HERO site.

We would like to take this opportunity of thanking staff at universities and colleges for taking the time to update this well-used and appreciated resource over the past eight years.”

Thanks to Bill at the Online Learning in the Arts for this link, another JISC website, this time JISC Digital Media and its accompanying blog.

Its a great resource with:

•  regular training courses (£150-175) on metadata, copyright, video recording, etc
• digitisation case studies
• free guides and advice

A simple implementation, JURN uses a Google Custom Search to search through over 2300 handpicked ejournals in the arts and humanities. There’s also a JURN blog, with an About page that explains what is and isn’t included and an excellent ‘Short guide to free academic search‘, illustrating starting points for various types of search query.

The catchily named JISC TechDis site provides seeks to “support the education sector in achieving greater accessibility and inclusion by stimulating innovation and providing expert advice and guidance on disability and technology”. It seems to be concentrated towards e-learning, but there’s a lot of useful accessibility information. 

It’s easy as web editors to fall into the trap of thinking of accessibility provision only in terms of visual impairments, JISC TechDis’s sections on Disabilities and the Creation of Learning Content provide valuable reminders of the wider scale of the issues.

Sample profile page: