RSS feeds

What is RSS?

RSS (or Really Simple Syndication) feeds are an easy way for job seekers and course hunters to keep up-to-date with our latest job and postgraduate course vacancies. So, instead of revisiting prospects.ac.uk to stay up-to-date, you can set up an RSS feed. To subscribe to our RSS feeds you will need an RSS Reader.

What is an RSS Reader?

An RSS Reader is a piece of software that checks for new RSS feeds. RSS Readers are also referred to as feed readers, feed aggregators and news readers; they can be browser-based or downloadable applications. To access your RSS feeds from any computer you will need to sign up for a browser-based RSS Reader. Once you have chosen an RSS Reader, all you need to do is decide which feeds you would like to receive.

How do I set up an RSS feed?

Once you have installed your chosen reader, add the URL of the feed you are interested in e.g. to receive feeds from the Job vacancies in the 'Job vacancies in Advertising, Marketing and PR', select the link ‘Vacancies in Advertising, marketing and PR(RSS)’ and copy the address http://www.prospects.ac.uk/rss/imvac_G.rss into your RSS Reader.

Available RSS feeds

• Job vacancies
• Postgraduate course vacancies

RSS for Webmasters

If you run your own website, you can display our latest jobs and postgrad course vacancies on your website with ease. It is possible to manipulate the RSS feeds in a number of ways:

• Direct syndication - manipulate the RSS manually to allow unlimited customisation or the presentation of information, and allow it to be integrated with your own data.
• JavaScript can be used to parse the XML data to form tables in which to present the data. Intute provides this service. Simply insert the following code into your site, replacing “CHANNELURL” with the URL of the RSS feed, which can be found by navigating to the feed you want from the links at the top of this page.

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.intute.ac.uk/rss/viewer/index.pl?rss=CHANNELURL"></script>