February has been a busy month for the StudentMASH technical team. Just one of a long list of additional site enhancements is the new optimised search engine.
Search results can now be ordered according to 5 different criteria. Search for a course / institution by relevancy, content, popularity, StudentMASH user rating or alphabetically.
As we enter March and spring approaches the StudentMASH team wanted to take the opportunity to tell our users how they can vent any post exam stress or even better, talk about the positive experiences they have had at uni so far, by submitting review on the site.
Take part and have your say! Log in,
submit a ‘Review’ on your university/faculty/course page, let our 80,000
monthly users know what student life is really like. Use
StudentMASH
's platform to help other students and let your institution know what works and what doesn’t.
If reviewing is not your thing - upload videos, photos
or forum posts to get your point across.
Whilst you’re there check out the StudentMASH's new videos,
images and news mashed in from Youtube Flickr, Facebook & Google plus our
improved search and browsing capabilities.
Don't
forget to keep the feedback coming in by emailing info@studentmash.com.
New webpages have been built, giving each faculty from over 5000 institutions worldwide an individual profile page on the site!
This means that you can be even more specific with your searches. Whether posting or viewing, users can now directly visit their specific department of choice.
As we understand that academic institutions differ from country to county, individual college and school pages have been built to accommodate the variation between national structures.
Check out Royal Holloway's School of Business Vid by clicking this link.
For both students and staff alike, StudentMASH's new pages provide a chance to make your mark! Upload your content and set yourselves apart from other faculties in your institution and around the world.
From the beginning of Feburary, StudentMASH has been mashing in all the best videos from YouTube, images from Flickr and news from Google.
What is mashing?
This means that all the most up-to-date content from YouTube, Flickr, Google are fed onto StudentMASH every hour. StudentMASH is also interfaced with the professional network LinkedIn.
Where can I find the mashed in content?
Everywhere! Mashed in content can be found on every single one of StudentMASH's profile pages. What's more, the content that appears has been filtered so that only the most relevant material is displayed.
What if inappropriate content slips through the net?
If you come across anything that you find offensive or irrelevant just press the 'inappropriate' button that appears next to the offending item. An alert is then automatically sent to a member of the StudentMASH team and the post is removed until someone personally checks it.
'No
frills, just outstanding, world-renowned expertise’ is the theme of the Tata
Interactive Systems (TIS) stand at the Learning Technologies 2008 exhibition,
being held at London's Olympia on the 30th and 31st Jan 2008.
Visitors to the TIS stand
at Learning Technologies this year are being encouraged to discuss their key
business challenges and corporate initiatives with TIS - and benefit from a
free 'e-learning consultation'.
“This
year, our focus is on offering, and using, our considerable expertise in all
aspects of ‘business’ to address the business challenges faced by our clients –
and by visitors to our stand at the exhibition,” said Alan Samuel, head of UK
operations for the global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS).
Click
on the link the view Tata's
StudentMASH profile page.
The Bologna Accord aims to harmonise
40 different European higher education systems by creating a single system of
degrees (Bachelor and Master qualifications) within an agreed framework and
with a consistent credit and grading system.
A key objective is to
create a more competitive Europe
Bologna will therefore increase the
opportunities and choices of the ever growing pool of European students that
currently number over 2.4 million each year.
What these students do
post-Bachelor will have a significant impact for education and business.
What exactly is the Bologna
Accord? To find out more, visit the Council of Europe's Bologna
for Pedestrians page.
New Profiles:
Over the last week, a further 3 international institutes of business and technology have been added, increasing the total to six and broading the reach of StudentMASH's reach to far flung corners of the world such as Perth Melbourne and...Hertfordshire! They feature photos as well as text information, so take a look.
Fresh Vids:
De Montfort are leading the way in the provision of fresh video content in the new year. Their latest offering was made by one of their students no less and is steadily gaining in its play figures. Check it out at: http://studentmash.com/servlet/video/Select/793/A+look+at+DMU+through+a+student%27s+eyes+%28filmed+and+edited+by+Zoe+Turrell+on+behalf+of+De+Montfort+University%29
We seem to have some very interesting members posting all sorts of information and conversation on the forums, I'm rather addicted to be honest! Get on and have your say, make some new friends or a cyber space nemesis.
Whilst you were on your Christmas break us Mashites have been busy bees uploading even more info on universities/college’s. StudentMASH now has more profiles than ever before featuring institutions from all over the world,including Germany, South America, the USA, Australia and the UK.
Lloyds TSB have now joined us as a featured employer with Graduate Programmes and Business Specialist Programme pointing you in the right direction.
