At the end of 2024, one of our third-party listing sites, FindAMasters, approached us about taking part in a pilot looking into seeing if an AI-assisted process could complete its ‘brief’ (creating third-party programme listings) using information from our postgraduate degree finder. We thought this was a useful opportunity to put some AI to a […]

Last year, we carried out usability testing around the proposed search and filter interface for the future degree finder. We also tested the effectiveness of updated navigation features to help users orientate themselves on programme pages. We were pleased to see students encounter no major usability issues when interacting with these.

Not all of us have the luxury of working within a team to improve web content. In this blog post I share how I went about a solo project to improve web content. I also reflect on the tools I used and the lessons learned.

In the run-up to launching our new undergraduate and postgraduate degree finder service throughout 2025, we also had to contend with a migration to a new corporate content management system (CMS) in late 2024. While this additional task was challenging, I learned a lot from my role coordinating the move with both central and devolved […]

With the launch of the latest edition of the undergraduate degree finder, the Prospective Student Web team has also launched the new degree finder CMS (content management system). This blog compares the new CMS to the methods we have used to date for our collaborative editing process, highlighting some of the new features that will […]

Four years ago, the content designers in our team got started on our project to transform our online provision for prospective students. With the recent launch of the new undergraduate provision, we summarise and reflect on the journey that got us to this point.

Alongside launching a new undergraduate degree finder, we’ve redeveloped and launched an updated undergraduate study site. I recap our process to create the site.

As part of our work redeveloping the undergraduate study site, we recently performed a series of content crits (critiques). Content crits are a method of peer reviewing content in a group setting. In this post, I’ll talk about why we held these crits and my tips for holding your own content crits.

Our new service to the University student recruitment community launches soon in early March. But the step change is not coming from the technology. It’s from how the team functions, and there’s a lot here that they’re rightly proud of.

On February 4th, we hosted an open invitation online session to share our insights on flexible study, short courses and the ICL route to a postgraduate qualification. This was of particular relevance to colleagues in related fields, such as Short Courses, Executive Education, Continuing Professional Development, and the part-time intermittent route to a postgraduate award. […]