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Richard Everett is responsible for the IT infrastructure for a £100m new build project at Oaklands College.

Jisc TechDis has been at the forefront of supporting the needs of students and staff with disabilities or learning difficulties for many years.

Limited take-up by researchers of new (and not so new) technologies is a challenge that Jisc and other organisations are seeking to get to grips with.

A partnership of four national ICT bodies - from Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK - recently announced the successful publishers under its multinational licensing initiative which is seeing online resources made available across national borders.

Great Expectations of ICT: how HE institutions are measuring up? Is a new report that is being published by Jisc and Ipsos Mori.

The moves to federated access management have ‘propelled academic libraries into the forefront of matters related to identity management, ensuring seamless access to an ever widening range of online resources and services, both within and outside institutional and national boundaries.’

Newly published case studies are giving real-life examples of how ICT can help widen participation and support learner progression.

Thanks to identity cards and certain high-profile cases of data loss, the issue of identity management is never far from the headlines.

"This agreement represents a milestone in the provision of online resources for education and research and demonstrates the immense potential of international collaboration"Research Libraries UK has a central role in meeting the research community's information and resource needs.

With concern for the environment and fears about climate change never far from the headlines, our use of ICT is coming under increasing scrutiny.