What's in a name?
Or rather what’s in a domain name? Well we think rather a lot and that is why we are delighted to be the first alternative provider of Higher Education to be awarded an academic domain name. Names are allocated by JISC and before giving us oca.ac.uk the JISC naming committee read our quality inspection report from earlier this year – which you can also read here if you haven’t already. The eligibility criteria for an academic domain name require that the organisation has ‘the core purpose of providing high quality higher education’. That’s what we are about and we are pleased that JISC agree with us.
The main course information site changed address this afternoon (see here). Head Office staff email addresses will change tomorrow, but don’t worry we will still get email sent to the old addresses.
The blog and the student site will migrate in due course. Students and tutors will get updated email addresses too, but no new passwords will be needed and no email will be lost. We are talking to the Student Association committee about when to switch over student email addresses.
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So Xmas has come early for OCA! Congrats on getting this—I’m thinking that this step might open a number of doors that have been closed previously. For one, it should make it easier for students—now with a proper academic email address—to apply for student discounts, but I bet there is more in the pipeline.
Spot on Vicki – on both counts – easier discounts and a lot more in the pipeline
Brilliant—will wait patiently for future developments! 🙂
Fantastic news! Well done Gareth and all concerned!
Great news, well done OCA
Good news! Well done all at OCA!
Good news. Shows how good OCA is.
Sweet… This is fab.
Fantastic, good skills
With both my hats on, congratulations to Gareth and the team in Barnsley. Great demonstration of ambition and leadership.
Great news. The OCA are going from strength to strength now with top quality higher education. This lends even more credibility to the college and greatly helps its students. Well done all!
Excelent news…well done all…persistence counts!
Congratulations to everyone involved. We are now well and truly an academic institution in the electronic age and I am proud to be part of it.
great stuff and rightly so
Excellent news and very well deserved. Patience pays off!
Well done!
This is great news
Yeah, good stuff. Things have come on a lot in the last few years… “ac” status, award winning MA (and the first bunch of students now with their MAs I believe), improved courses and a wider offering.
Time to crack out the fizz Gareth.
Fantastic news – well done to all involved.
Wonderful news! I’m quite overwhelmed – it’s a real lump-in-the-throat moment!
Besides the prestige accruing to the OCA, it should make it much easier for me to explain that I’m doing something absolutely legitimate…
Congratulations to everyone who has made it possible.
Well done Gareth and everyone in Barnsley!
Its been a long journey but the new domain name confirms to the world that OCA has arrived as a fully fledged provider of degree level education.
As an almost-ready-to-graduate student I’d love to get the new email address as soon as possible – to take advantage of any doors it opens to on-line research.
Really proud to be studying with OCA 🙂
Brilliant news!
So satisfying to see everyone’s comments and I feel very proud to work for OCA