Further education subscription

Technology

The world-class Janet Network is the bedrock of our connectivity, cyber security, and cloud services. As the UK’s National Research and Education Network (NREN), it provides the bandwidth and resilience you need to drive digital transformation and grow the digital capabilities of your organisation.

Vital security services are included as part of your Janet IP connection, adding Jisc’s technical expertise to your in-house resource to protect your organisation, students and staff from threat actors with extensive resources and ever-evolving tactics.

As a member, you’ll also have access to our cyber security community, a closed group of cyber experts from across UK education and research providing the latest threat intel, workshops and opportunities to hear the experiences of peers.

Libraries

We work hand-in-hand with your college library team to secure you access to the digital content your learners need.

We do this in multiple ways including our e-books for FE service which provides you access to curriculum-mapped course e-books. Our licence subscriptions manager, also works in partnership with the sector to negotiate fair, equitable deals for digital content agreements. You can access these as required.

As a member, your library colleagues are also invited to join the FE library/LRC community of practice. This active community comes together to share best practice, solve common challenges and learn from each other’s experiences for the collective benefit of FE learners.

Learning and teaching

We champion digital innovation for more inclusive student experiences and better outcomes.

As a member you get access to our digital elevation tool, which provides the latest intelligence, resources and services to support the transformation of digital practice in learning, teaching and assessment at your college.

Our learning and teaching communities are thriving spaces where experts like you from across the UK come together online, in-person, and at our sector-leading events to share good practice and overcome challenges together.

Our artificial intelligence team of experts combined with an artificial intelligence community of more than 2,000 of your teaching and learning peers are breaking new ground with the effective, responsible us of AI.

Find out more about our learning, teaching and assessment work.

Data

We are the trusted data partner for tertiary education in the UK. Our role is to provide you the tools, insights and expertise you need to harness data to drive informed decision-making.

Find out more about data analytics.

The make-up of our data services includes tools designed specifically further education, such as our digital elevation tool and digital experience insights, which combine sector insights with data from your own organisation. Together this enables accurate benchmarking and can inform strategic planning.

Finance and procurement

Working with carefully selected suppliers, we develop compliant framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems across services for cloud, connectivity, and libraries. These are available exclusively to members, saving you time and money plus giving you assurance that the solutions are legally compliant and the terms are negotiated with members like you in mind.

In addition, our Licence subscriptions manager and Chest services negotiate with academic publishers and software vendors at a national level to license and procure affordable digital content and software for the UK education and research community.