Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Universities

  • An AAAtraq Report claims that 96% of American Colleges are denying equal access to disabled people. The company finds that US higher education websites fail on the basics. That’s despite efforts and increasing spend on attempts to make websites more inclusive.

  • Beyond his work with TU Automotive and Trudy Darwin Communications, between 2020 and 2022, Graham Jarvis – freelance business and technology journalist, wrote and edited insurtech reports for Intelligent Insurer; wrote articles on cryptocurrencies in healthcare; wrote about education; edited and wrote fleet management reports for ABAX; wrote about digital accessibility; wrote about cloud computing;…

  • The University of Stirling Sports Team’s lockdown fitness programme has gone global. The university reveals: “Nearly 4000 participants have logged on to take part in virtual classes over the last 8 weeks – either live or pre-recorded. The people getting involved are from over 50 countries, including long-haul destinations such as New Zealand, the United…

  • WAN data acceleration, also known as WAN Acceleration, is the only way to mitigate the effects of latency and packet loss in any meaningful way. Traditionally, the answer has been to move data centres or disaster recovery sites closer to each other to reduce latency. However, if they are within the same circles of disruption…

  • IoT gives birth to IIoT, which involves monitoring the performance of complex machinery such as gas turbines, aircraft, ships, electrical grids and oil rigs. So it’s not just about a diversely spread group of CAD engineers working collaboratively across the globe. “IIoT has never been so diverse and in depth with vast amounts of data…

  • nScreenMedia claims that: “data from Ericsson and FreeWheel paints a rosy picture for mobile video. Mobile data volume is set to increase sevenfold over the next six years, with video’s share increasing from 50% to 70%. The smartphone looks to be in the driver’s seat.”

  • The severe floods that hit the north of England and parts of Scotland in December 2015 and January 2016 devastated both homes and businesses, and led to questions about whether the UK is sufficiently prepared to cope with such calamities….Graham Jarvis looks at why disaster recovery and IT service continuity are the best insurance policy.

  • South Sudan's fledgling universities need money – and educated young people – to survive. Graham Jarvis reports. No sooner had the celebrations that followed the Republic of South Sudan's independence from its northern neighbour in July last year died down than the country's fledgling government found itself facing serious challenges, a number of them education-related.…

  • Republicans at loggerheads with Democrats and Moody's over retrenchment. Graham Jarvis writes In common with many US states in recent months, Florida has slashed its higher education budget, cutting $300 million (£191 million) in a bid to help tackle its fiscal deficit. The move will force Florida's 11 public universities to dig into their reserves,…

  • State to consult public, staff and students over disputed university reforms. Graham Jarvis writes. In November, 600,000 Colombian students walked out of lectures in protest at what they saw as the increasing privatisation of higher education in the country…read more here. Published by Times Higher Education on 12th April 2012.