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Conversations in Search of Audiences: Prospects and Challenges of Marketing UK’s Postgraduate Higher Education Using Social Media

Baomin Qi
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Amit Mitra
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It is no surprise that there are serious disparities between the rhetoric of education and the realities of education. Marketing of university curricula is a challenge that is increasingly becoming a difficult proposition as advances in social media (SM) are enabling prospective students to form opinions and inform their decisions like never before. Whilst the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) plays a central role in matching undergraduate students to courses in universities yet the same does not apply to postgraduate admissions which are sought after by a large number of applicants from overseas as well. This paper looks at some of the areas where SM has been successfully used. The papers then goes onto develop taxonomy of popular SM tools that are being widely used. Using this taxonomy it explores barriers and promoters that exist in the interface between universities and their audiences.
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hal-01702205 , version 1 (06-02-2018)

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Baomin Qi, Amit Mitra. Conversations in Search of Audiences: Prospects and Challenges of Marketing UK’s Postgraduate Higher Education Using Social Media. 15th Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society (I3E), Sep 2016, Swansea, United Kingdom. pp.90-104, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-45234-0_9⟩. ⟨hal-01702205⟩
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