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Following awards amounting to an extra £80m of capital funding over two years, Jisc today announced plans to invest further in a range of activities to support UK education and research from 2006 to 2008.

A new study for Jisc is investigating how well the network provision to UK academic departments with a 5* research rating meets their research needs. The study is being conducted in the context of the forthcoming commissioning of SuperJANET5, and entails considering the quality and performance o

The Education Image Gallery is now being updated on a monthly basis, with a batch of approximately 200 of the latest Getty news and sport images from around the world in a variety of subjects being added every month.

AHDS Visual Arts has launched a new online teaching and learning resource - the Learning Index - at the recent Designs on eLearning conference held at the University of the Arts London, writes Brenda Brinkley of the AHDS Visual Arts.  

Jisc today announced a new agreement to make SCRAN's resources available to further and higher education for a further three years. The current SCRAN agreement ends this month and the new agreement will come into effect on the 1st November 2005. 

The Archives Hub provides a single point of access to descriptions of archives held in more than 140 HE and FE institutions from all around the UK, and forms part of the National Archives Network.

In January of this year the UK Data Archive, jointly funded by Jisc and the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council), was appointed as a legal place of deposit for National Archives documents.

Digital information collected by research teams is being lost because contextual data is not being properly recorded, says the head of the UK organisation set up to provide advice on storing information. 

The latest TechWatch report on advanced display technologies is a comprehensive document, designed to take readers from an introduction to the key issues to a glimpse of what the future has to offer the F&HE community.

Engaging staff with e-Learning can be difficult, particularly where their personal IT skills are modest. This difficulty can be compounded by misguided accessibility training that attempts to give highly technical advice to people who lack the skills to make use of it.