A report by the Telegraph has discovered Cardiff University is spending as much as three times more on its website compared to other Universities within the country.
Using the Freedom of Information legislation, the Telegraph found that Cardiff annually spent £240,868 overall on its website last year; the average annual spending on the maintenance of a University website is £60,375.This placed it as the second most expensive website within the report. Acting as the main port of call for many students, the frequent redesigns, maintain and hosting, along with staff salaries, cumulate to this extraordinary amount.
However, a recent survey by Webcredible showed that a quarter of all students believe that there are many basic functionalities missing from their University websites, prompting them to feel let down by them by the inadequate websites.
A spokesman for the University comments " we did not and do not accept that there is any credible evidence that the University is spending more on its website than other universities of its type. The data quoted was based on an uninformed question to which the interpretation and the associated responses were hugely different across the sector, resulting in inaccurate and misleading comparisons.”
"Consistent with its open and transparent approach, Cardiff University provided the actual total full costs – of all web software, hardware, applications, licences, hosting fees etc and including full pay (and associated) costs. The service provided is also a different model to what is provided in many universities; the central web team provides services to academic schools and other areas of the University which in many instances avoids the need for localised web specialists, reducing the overall cost to the organisation further.”
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