About this site
This website provides information about us, our academic provision, research and business activities.
Web publishing at Middlesex
Middlesex uses web technology to effectively communicate to its internal and external audiences. We have three key websites, which are developed and supported by an in-house team of experts with help and support from colleagues around the University.
- This site is our face to the world
- We have a staff Intranet dedicated to facilitating communication and the flow of information within the University's departments
- We have a student support website called 24-7.
All three sites were developed to optimise usability and accessibility and published within a strict legal framework. Experts from the Universitys Schools and Services originate the content. The website is managed centrally by the Web Development Team, who provide guidance and framework for publishing online. This website was relaunched in October 2006 with the assistance of many University staff and three external companies: Serena (Content Management System), Precedent Communications (Strategy and Design) and Nomensa (Usabililty).
Legal note
This site has been published in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.
Accessibility
- The Web Development Team is committed to making our websites accessible in accordance with the Special Education Needs and Disability Act (2001) and the Disability Discrimination Act (1995). In order to meet the requirements set out by the two Acts, we are developing our sites in accordance with W3C’s Accessibility Initiative Guidelines, up to Priority 2 or Double-A (AA) standard.
- Read our full Website Accessibility policy statement and find out about other measures we are taking to widen access to Higher Education.
Accuracy
- Every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this website is accurate and up to date. Middlesex University does not accept legal liability for errors or omissions and reserves the right to make changes to the some or all the information contained in this site without notice
- Where there are links to external websites, the University does not accept responsibility for the content on those sites.
- Information about our study programmes and research opportunities on the website is intended for publicity and guidance and should not be considered as definitive.
Information published on satellite websites, including personal webpages
- The University does not have editorial control over these sites and does not endorse, warrant or take responsibility for the content on them.
- Middlesex University will remove from its servers any information that breaches copyright, is obscene, offensive, defamatory or discriminatory.
Infomation about study programmes
- Middlesex University issues its website, guides and other literature as a general guide only. The University will use its reasonable endeavours to deliver courses in accordance with the descriptions set out on its website and in its guides. However, the University issues this literature as a general guide to all the courses and facilities offered by the University at the time of going to print. The website and guides are not intended, nor should they be considered, to contain definitive course descriptions and facilities.
- The University does not provide education to UK postgraduates on a commercial basis and it is also dependent on public funding and donations.
- The University therefore has to manage itself in such a way which is efficient and cost effective to the majority of its members, having obligations to funding and other outside bodies in this regard. It therefore reserves the right to make changes to the contents or methods and/or locations of delivery of courses, to merge or combine courses or to discontinue them, if such action is considered to be reasonably necessary by the University in the context of its wider purposes.
- If the University discontinues any programme of study after an offer of a place has been accepted, it will use all reasonable endeavours to provide a suitable alternative course at the University or to give all reasonable assistance in helping to find a suitable alternative course at another institution. If a programme of study is discontinued and a student cannot be relocated onto another course within the University or otherwise and the student has not unreasonably refused the offer of a transfer to another course within the University or otherwise, the University may in its discretion reimburse any tuition fees, wholly or in part, paid by the student to the University up to the date of the discontinuation of the programme of study. The University will not be liable for any other loss claimed to be suffered by the student as a result of a course being discontinued. The University, on a discretionary basis and without obligation, may offer further assistance in exceptional circumstances to a student where the student can show that they have suffered or will have to suffer severe hardship as a direct result of such discontinuation.
Privacy
- For demographic reasons, our server records your visit.
Information for applicants
- If you are applying to the University, you will receive all relevant information during the admissions procedure.
- Applicants are advised that data supplied for admissions purposes or generated while they are an enrolled student or an alumnus is held on computer and used in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, for educational purposes or as required in official returns to the Department for Education and Employment and other national bodies.
Information for Alumni
- Middlesex University Alumni Association members are advised that data supplied is held on computer and used by the Alumni Association in conformity with the Data Protection Act 1998. All information provided is added to the Universitys Database, and used for alumni purposes only. These purposes may include:
- Sending a range of alumni and University publications
- Contacting graduates regarding benefits and services available to alumni
- Notification of Alumni/University events and reunions
- University fundraising programmes
- Occasionally, data is passed to external mailing companies for the purposes of specific large-scale University mailings. In such circumstances written and binding obligations are put in place between the University and the mailing house concerned. The data is held in accordance with the Data Protection Act and is not held beyond the period necessary to fulfil the mailing or used for any other purpose other than that identified by the University.
Personal information
- At several points in this site, you can submit personal information. The information that you give us will be treated in accordance to the Data Protection principles outlined in the Data Protection Act 1998.
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Middlesex University is required by law to comply with the Data Protection Act, 1998 (the 1998 Act). To comply with the law, information is collected and used fairly, stored safely and not disclosed to any other person unlawfully. To do this Middlesex University complies with the Data Protection Principles which are set out in the 1998 Act. In summary these state that personal data shall be:
The University is committed to ensuring that current employees comply with this Act regarding the confidentiality of any personal data held by the University, in whatever medium. |
The website carries information that is already in the public domain, such as organisational structures, membership and responsibilities of governing bodies and committees, staff contacts list, photographs of key staff, list of students to whom awards have been made or are likely to be made by the University. Wherever necessary, permissions have been sought before publication of material.
Information that is already in the public domain is exempt from the 1998 Act. It is the policy of Middlesex University to make public as much information about the University as possible.
Openness policy
- The University's values are based on the premise of providing an open and honest environment for educational and personal development, and for the creation and transmission of ideas and knowledge. Accordingly, the University operates on the basis of openness in the right to information, unless there is an overriding reason for confidentiality, privacy of individuals and commercially sensitive matters.
Copyright
- Unless stated otherwise, Middlesex University owns the information contained in this site. The University maintains copyright and will enforce it. Logos, names and images identifying Middlesex University are proprietary marks of the University and its subsidiaries, reproduction of which is prohibited by law. The design is owned by the University. The University owns the photographs used except those reproduced by permission of the photographers.
Terms for the use of the site
- When you access this site, you agree to do so for your private use and not for public or commercial use. You agree that you will not copy, store in any medium, distribute, transmit, modify or show in public any part of the website without the prior written permission of the University or in accordance with the copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988.