Following the summer internship undertaken by yours truly, we are pleased to announce the opportunity for another, more editorially orientated intern to work at our office in Brighton for approximately 3 months, from sometime in September.
We’re looking for anyone with an interest in writing for the web and managing web content, to be involved in the reworking of the TSR FAQ’s, developing a series of new site sections as well as some editorial content in the wiki. An ideal candidate would be a graduate, perhaps in journalism or a related field wishing to gain valuable experience. Although all applicants will be considered.
Also, as Acumen has a partnership with The Guardian, we would be able to offer some time to spend working with them, being involved and gaining insight into their web content areas at their HQ in London.
We will pay for your accommodation during the three months as well as a living allowance. Also, after having to house hunt for rooms myself I’m sure we’ll be able to lend a helping hand in finding a place to stay should you need it.
It should be a great experience and something that will look good on many a CV, as well as the general awesomeness that is Brighton and TSR HQ.
If you are interested or require more information, then get in touch by email at chris.mcnair@acumenpi.com with a CV and covering letter by mid-day, Monday 14th September.
26.7% of A-level entries for England, Wales and Northern Ireland were awarded A grades yesterday just as records were also being broken on The Student Room…
Site traffic surged as students came to the site to share their result successes and to seek advice and support if their grades weren’t as hoped.
We received 206,844 visits, 1,456,919 page views and the average time on the site was 7:25 minutes
Best of all members made a whopping 32,000 posts yesterday!
We’re very pleased to offer one candidate a full scholarship to do a masters qualification with BPP Business.
The closing date for applications is pretty tight – August 31st, so get applying!
Postgraduate Scholarship details
Members of TSR have created an excellent Guide to A Level results day it covers everything you need to consider on the big day of the 5th (Scotland) or 20th (rest of UK) of August.
Lots of TSR members have contributed to the guide over the years, Vazzyb, Juno, PQ and most recently Minerva updated it. Good luck on results day!
The past few weeks have been interesting in TSR HQ. With the clearing content stuff having only just gone live, the build up continues to results day – August 20th.
In the background there have been other little projects going on, and a meeting with The Guardian helped to highlight what exactly the partnership would bring, with TSR due to make the most of quality content and The Guardian making use of specific traffic the site brings.
It was also decided that more could be made of useful resources on the site. An example being the Graduate Employer Profiles as previously mentioned in the blog. We employed recent English graduate and resident TSR’ian Jonah Ramone to fill in many of the blanks, and a sterling job he’s done 
SEO work has also been looked at, meaning various types of TSR resources are easily found via Google and not just the general forum threads, some of which are more colourful than others!
Another meeting was had with the Commissioning Editor of Channel 4 education, to get a feel for whether a potential partnership could benefit non-profit campaigns aimed at young people. Although early days, there most certainly seemed a crossover and one that could potentially bring great benefit to the users of the site. So watch that space.
Channel 4 HQ - Umbrella Logo
The testing on the vB3.8 has also gone really well. At the end of last week a document was built up consisting of testers comments, suggestions and finds. These will be discussed in about 10 mins time, along with some suggestions from mod’s and their requirements that need a bit of dev’ time. I’ll hopefully get round to updating the testing team and thanking those that have tested to date. All very much appreciated (and I hope you come back for more when we have it!). Feedback regarding new features has also been really positive, so fingers crossed this is representative of TSR in general…
And finally, a little while ago members were asked for their input into moderator nominations. Since these closed, people have been working closely behind the scenes to get discussion going regarding bringing in new mods, and we’re pleased to say these will start being announced in the very near future. So keep your eyes peeled in About, and welcome the new guys in (just before the busiest time of the year!!).
Until next time, you stay classy TSR
-CJ
We’ve had a growing postgraduate community on TSR for some time – Postgraduate forum
So a few months ago we did some research among all TSR users to find out how interested in postgraduate study and resources they are.
Of the 830 people that filled it in…
- 88% said they we interested or were possibly interested in persuing postgraduate study
- 82% said they’d like more information about postgraduate study
- The subjects faculty areas people were most interested in were:
- - Science and Engineers – 40%
- Arts, humanities and languages – 29.7%
- Social sciences – 21.3%
- Business, finance and management – 18.8%
- Education and teaching – 16.3%
- Law – 14.2%
As a result of this research we’ve launched a new postgraduate study section at the top of the site. It brings together the articles that postgraduate students on TSR have written giving tips and advice to others considering a postgrad qualification of some sort. It incorporates the postgrad forum, postgraduate study tips, postgraduate personal statement tips and other shared experiences. The resource launched this weekend and will be growing and evolving over time, if you have suggestions or want to get involved please post comments here or into the postgrad forum with ideas.
