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Jisc and Australia’s Department for Education, Science and Training (DEST), part of the Australian Government, have just signed a Collaboration Framework. This formalises the activities which have been carried out together over the last 18 months and takes the work to a new, strategic footing.

Jisc today welcomed the DfES's newly-published e-learning strategy. The five-year strategy sets out a vision in which the full potential of technology can be harnessed for the benefit of all learners and, for the first time in one document, across all sectors. "Digital technology.

In an exclusive interview in the new issue of Jisc Inform, Sir Howard Newby, Chief Executive of HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England), says that Information and Communications Technology (ICT), allied to more traditional forms of learning and teaching, can bring en

COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) is a multi-agency project whose objective is to develop a single, internationally accepted, extendible Code of Practice that will allow the usage of online information products and services to be measured more consistently.

Because of changes to the timescales and some additions to the call requirements for the Digital Curation Centre, Jisc Circular 6/03, which invites calls from institutions wishing to host the Centre is being withdrawn.  A revised call will be issued as soon as possible in July.

Jisc is seeking to fund a study to investigate the provision of access to on-line resources and other student services for students studying higher education (HE) courses within further education (FE) institutions and further education courses within higher education institutions.

The Jisc wishes to commission two separate studies in the area of human-computer interaction design and visualisation. The two studies are: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design foundation study; and a Visualisation foundation study. Proposals can be made for either one or both studies.

The Jisc wishes to commission a synthesis and analysis of the Jisc and National Science Foundation (NSF) International Digital Library Initiative Projects (DLI). The study should mainly be concerned with the UK project activity.