The allure of university status
For the very first time in the UK, a profit-making institution has become a university. The College of Law – the country’s biggest provider of legal education and skills training – is now officially the University of Law.
A lesson in reaching teachers
They’re often not the budget holders in schools and are, in any case, a notoriously hard to reach, time-pressured and sceptical audience. But, argues Matt Boothman, educational suppliers ignore teachers at their peril.
A fork in the road: Matt mulls the future of responsive sites
The problem: everything with a screen can access the internet these days. How do you design a website that looks as good, and handles as well, on a Blackberry as on a 27-inch Mac?
Bringing literature to life
AQA approached us to create a fresh and engaging way to promote and build awareness of its Digital Anthology resource, a free, interactive poetry and prose collection aimed at teachers to actively engage English students.
Support for Europe’s SMEs
Redhouse Lane is providing content strategy and information architecture consultancy to help strengthen the European Investment Bank’s communication and knowledge-sharing infrastructure.
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getting to know you: profile
 Matt applies his content auditing and strategy skills widely in the education sector. Projects include reviewing and developing a new web content strategy for UCAS's digital presence; social media campaigning for e-skills UK and the Open University's Vital programme; and creative direct marketing for AQA. He trained as a journalist and creative writer at the University of London, and is an Ordinary Member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. |
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- For the first time, children are reading more screens than paper pages t.co/M0SAc8NojS - Does the medium matter?
- Graduate students do not open newsletters or marketing emails t.co/Vkg8OrfOyB (anecdotal, but ri...#highered
- 29% of university students don't think their course offers value for money t.co/MTi61TaRJV (up from 16% before fees rose)
- Big thanks to @tdriver74 for the 'Tony' and...@redhouselane ... Particularly liked the Cash number.
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