Podcasts

Finding the answer to whether it is possible to establish comparable quality and standards across the UK’s education system was the topic for debate this week at a Jisc sponsored Higher Education Policy Institute’s (HEPI) Westminster breakfast briefing.

For new students, December saw the end of their first academic term within further education and many colleges and universities will now be trying to predict which students will not be returning this January.

Universities and colleges need to work together in order to prepare for a low carbon future in which they generate, as well as consume energy.

He was ranked one of the top 30 management thinkers in the world by Accenture in 2005 and in 2007 as the outstanding innovation expert in the UK by the Financial Times.

In 2008 John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills launched a consultation called the HE Debate, to seek expert thinking, fresh ideas and comments on the future of higher education for the next ten to fifteen years.

In this podcast Professor David Baker, Deputy Chair of Jisc and Chair of Jisc's Chairs' Committee, talks with Nicola Yeeles about Jisc and his aspirations for the Chairs' Committee's work.

In October 2008 Harvard University in the US adopted an open access policy for all its research papers to be made available in their university repository, in an opt out basis.

Climate change and global warming are recognized as key areas of importance to the research community and the wider population.

From 18th century ships’ logbooks, through modern contemporary design to an online Olympics 2012 archive, Jisc’s latest online content programme is preserving the past, present and future for UK universities and colleges.

A new report Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings published by the Research Information Network (RIN) and Jisc shows how researchers are concerned by what they perceive as mixed messages about the channels they should use to communicate their