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Education & Library Board Chief Executive Helen McClenaghan
commented:
“The Boards have worked hard in the last 12 months to
improve the quality and breadth of information available on-line
and are keen to promote the website as an excellent facility
for gathering information that will be useful to students
and their parents. Free Internet access is now available in
all Board libraries, meaning it is possible for everyone to
make use of the website”.
Such is the Boards' commitment to continuous improvement,
the website ran a competition during June and July asking
students for their ideas on how to make it better and more
useful to them. The presentation of five DVD players, sponsored
by the Northern Bank, to those with the best suggestions is
the culmination of this work and will provide the Boards with
excellent ideas as to how to improve the website even further.
Seamus Duffy, Student Support Northern Ireland Consortium
Manager, believes that this competition was an excellent opportunity
for the Boards to engage their target audience. He said:
“I feel that this has been an extremely worthwhile exercise
for the Boards as it gives us an insight into what the students
and their parents actually want to see in the website. We
have tried to ensure that we have included everything that
they would need to know but the acid test is how the public
feel about what we have done”.
“Ultimately the Boards want to provide a facility to
allow people to access this type of information how and when
they wish to and we feel that the website does this very effectively.
It is important to us that we get the message to as many prospective
and continuing students as possible, in order that the site
continues to provide the service it was designed for,”
Mr Duffy stated.
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