Reach Students blog

One truly hot topic is dominating student online discussion right now. It’s not the re-election of Gemma Tumelty (Independent) to NUS President, or impending final year exams or the merits of the new Bloc Party album. No. It’s Levi Roots’ Reggae Reggae Sauce.

Last year News International, which famously bought the youth-popular MySpace, added graduate recruitment website Milkround to its portfolio. It spent £20 million on the site, which was set up by an Oxford graduate.

Glasgow Caledonian University is considering using? social networks, podcasts and other web 2.0 innovations to teach and communicate with its students. From the BBC: Professor Allison Littlejohn, director of the academy, said the university had already used podcasts to complement, but not replace, lectures by providing background information intended to put the lectures in context. [...]

So, not long until Capture Student Spend, Haymarket’s one day conference on student marketing. See below for the programme. Go here for more information from the organisers and to register. Reach Students will be there and looks forward to meeting faces new and old. If you are a newsletter subscriber intending to visit – and [...]