National Careers Service: Course Directory

Paragraph 17 of the Skills Funding Agency’s Update Issue 100 (21 March 2012) provides some basic information as follows:

As communicated in Update 98, the National Careers Service will be launched in April 2012. The new website will offer an improved course search facility, with many new features that have been introduced as a result of customer feedback.
Please remember that it is a condition of funding that you ensure that your information is up to date on the Course Directory Provider Portal. [Available only to providers to view]

To improve data quality, so that advisers and customers can find the courses that they are looking for, and to ensure that the information we give them is accurate and comprehensive, please refer to the top tips [NB: You can view these] in the portal.

[I'd be happier with something a good deal more concrete than "description … what you would be happy to include in a prospectus" etc.
Reminder to self: look out "Standards for Data Input on Central Information Database" (title is sort-of right but I know it's not actually that).]

For any related queries or assistance, please contact The Data Service’s Service Desk [email link only].

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TargetJobs and TargetCourses

TargetJobs: jobs for graduates
TargetCourses: postgraduate courses


Thanks to Internet Resources Newsletter Number 167 for these.

Hazel's comment:

Given the Target name on these two sites I would really like to recommend them to you but ...
Both were exceedingly slow to load (could be my connection I suppose but not that slow, surely?) to the point that I didn't even check any of the vacancies.

I did, however, go through the grindingly slow search for information management in the courses and got 2,563 records returned. None in the first 20 were information management.

If you find anything different here I'd be glad to know about it.

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