JISC

6 September 2006. JISC announced that it has reached agreement with the Learning and Skills Councils (LSC) on the LSC’s contribution to the JISC budget. The agreement means that the following will be available to those institutions funded by the LSC for the next three years, including Specialist Colleges:

• JANET connections
• support from the Regional Support Centres
• membership of the UK Access Management Federation
• all JISC’s advisory services
• delivery services at data centres
• membership of the new JISC Collections content company
• access to all current content under existing licensing agreements

Communications have been sent to all English FE colleges outlining the level of support JISC will provide to the English post-16 sector.

The funding agreement also means that the LSC will continue as a member of the JISC Steering Group and have observer status on the JISC Board, the JISC Committee for Networking and the JISC Committee for Organisational Support and will also nominate two members onto the JISC Board.  Members of the FE community will in addition be eligible to nominate themselves to be considered as members of the JISC Committee for Networking, the JISC Committee for Organisational Support, the JISC Committee for Content Services and the JISC Committee for Learning and Teaching. 

A Q&A is available giving further details of the implications for institutions of the new funding agreement.

A brochure giving further details of the available services has been sent to all English colleges. If you would like further copies of the brochure, please contact: publications@jisc.ac.uk