The Times Higher Education’s annual Student Experience Survey highlights a host of institutions bent on making the university experience first rate in every way. Welsh institutions scored very well, taking three of the top 15 places. Aberystwyth University (eighth) led the …
LILAC 2009 (The Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference) will take place in Wales this year. The venue is Cardiff University, and the dates are 30 March to 1 April 2009. This years conference themes are as follows: * Inquiry based …
The Archives Hub Collection of the Month highlights The Welsh in Patagonia, a look at the founding of a Welsh-speaking settlement in Argentina in the mid-19th century. Elen Wyn Simpson, Assistant Archivist at Bangor University, has provided an introduction to …
JISC’s annual review is now online. It documents a year of activity and accomplishment in JISC’s key spheres of interest. Including podcast interviews with outgoing Chair Sir Ron Cooke and JISC Executive Secretary Dr Malcolm Read, it also features an …
As the findings of the final research assessment exercise are released, you will find results, analysis and reaction at: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=404786&c=2 and http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/rae
An interesting report, Devolution and higher education: impact and future trends, has just been published by think tank Universities UK. The 60 page document critically examines the impact of political devolution on higher education policy. It compares the experiences and …
CyMAL has announced the launch of the Museums, Archives, Libraries and Inspiring Learning grant schemes for 2009/10. Please note that CyMAL will not be distributing hard copies of the grant paperwork direct to services this year. All grant paperwork can …
We have enjoyed working with the Welsh Video Network to put on a series of events with authors across Wales. Using videoconferencing we have been able to link schools with FE and HE for an audience with Bethan Gwanas on …
A year ago WHELF launched a new collaborative e-books service with OCLC. NetLibrary provides 85,000 Welsh students and National Library users with access to over 700 e-book titles. The consortium has now been given representation on an International Advisory Board to …
The WHELF Annual Report for 2007-2008 is now on the WHELF website.
