Why did we group subjects?

User research shows that when selecting what to study our customers had question that our current subject pages were not answers (and are not well positioned to answer).
- This includes general information on what you would do if working in careers based on this subject.
- A topic (a working title for now) is a group of subjects related around an employment pathway/career.
We have too many subjects to promote effectively, in that efforts to promote one can undermine the efforts to promote another.
While search can accurately find a subject from a large number, navigation benefits from a taxonomy or grouping.

How did we group subjects?

The primary influencer in the grouping was that it had to make sense to senior secondary school students, as they are our main audience.
Within this, our objectives were:
- Fewer topics than subjects
- One subject for each major (on the programme page)
- Same grouping approach works for PG as for UG, although no decisions have yet been made on the design or visual treatment of PG subjects
- A subject can be in more than one topic, but better to minimise the duplication until we have the evidence
- Topics can themselves be grouped in to mega-areas (again, a working title)
- A mega-area can have a "floating" subject, meaning one that does not naturally fall in to any topic grouping