College Brochures

simu

All the college brochure photographers must be busy at the moment taking snaps of students reading their notes blissfully outdoors. They only have the brief interlude between the weather getting a bit better and the end of exams. This is a very minor whinge but it does annoy me how false these pictures are as representations of uni life. They should have at least one photo of soaked students running for shelter in each broch.

sunbeam

Well at least NUIG are using photos of people who look vaguely like real students and graduates in their brochures these days. About five years ago they adorned the cover of the postgrad prospectus with a stock photo of grads in American bachelors gear-hoodless zipped up gowns with sleeves ending at the wrist and mortarboards with tassels about three times as long as the ones we use (which all the men wore of course :rolleyes:). It looked a bit odd to say the least.

Many newspaper educational supplements and some websites such as nightcourses.com use similar stock photos. You'd think they'd at least make an effort to show graduates in Irish academic dress.

simu

Yeah, it's annoying when you start to recognise the faces.