Higher education membership
Your core Jisc membership connects your university to the UK’s digital infrastructure, sector expertise and national collaboration that underpin modern higher education.
Through membership, you gain access to trusted advice, products and services, communities and events that support teaching, learning, research and institutional operations.
We work in partnership with your university to deliver value every day, helping your teams operate efficiently while advancing strategic priorities. This collaborative approach also underpins our role in bringing the UK higher education sector together to solve shared challenges.
Read more in our collaboration for a sustainable future report, produced in partnership with KPMG.
Infrastructure
The world-class Janet Network underpins your connectivity, cyber security, and cloud services.
As the UK’s National Research and Education Network (NREN), Janet provides the resilience, bandwidth and scale your university needs to deliver reliable digital services, support teaching and research, and drive transformation with confidence.
Vital security services are included as part of your Janet IP connection, combining Jisc’s technical expertise with your in-house resource to protect your organisation, students and staff from evolving cyber threats.
This includes automated DDoS protection to stop attacks before they disrupt your services, and access to our dedicated computer security incident response team (CSIRT), for rapid, expert support when incidents occur.
You also have access to our cyber security community - a private space where experts from across UK education share the latest threat intelligence, practical advice and collaborate through workshops and sector discussions.
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- Janet Network
- Connectivity
- Cyber security
- Cloud services
- Janet IP connection
- Automated DDoS protection
- Computer security incident response team
- Cyber security community
Research
We provide the UK’s National Research and Education Network (NREN), delivering the digital infrastructure that enables world-class research.
Through Janet, we support data-intensive research and collaboration between universities, national facilities and international partners.
Working with sector partners such as UKRI, we help universities manage policy compliance, research data and repositories, supporting both strategic goals and day-to-day research activity.
Our services ensure research is trusted, secure and sustainable, enabling teams to deliver impact and work effectively.
Licensing and procurement
We work closely with your library and procurement leaders to secure fair, sustainable deals for digital tools, applications and content that support teaching, learning, research and university operations.
Through our licence subscriptions manager and sector-wide negotiation groups, we manage more than 450 agreements with major providers, including Adobe, Oracle Java, Microsoft, CrowdStrike and academic publishers such as Elsevier. These collective negotiations have delivered more than £500 million in savings for UK education and research institutions to date.
We also negotiate national agreements with academic publishers and software vendors, licensing digital content via the licence subscriptions manager and software through Chest, supporting universities across the UK.
Alongside this, we develop compliant framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems across cloud, connectivity, library and open research services. Available exclusively to members, these agreements help procurement teams secure legally compliant, high-value contracts while saving the sector millions of pounds each year.
Our negotiation and licensing strategic groups set the direction of negotiations and ensure members’ requirements are heard. Working with these groups enables us to negotiate affordable, sector-focused agreements that save time and money.
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- Frameworks and DPS
- Jisc-negotiated licensing delivers £500 million in member savings
- Licensing strategic and expert groups
- Chest
Learning and teaching
We champion digital innovation to create more inclusive student experiences and better outcomes in learning, teaching and assessment.
Membership gives you access to the latest intelligence, resources and services to support the transformation of digital practice in higher education.
Our learning and teaching communities are thriving, member-exclusive networks where experts from across the UK come together online, in-person and at sector-leading events to share good practice, tackle challenges and learn from peers.
We also support the effective and responsible use of AI. Through our AI community of over 2,000 learning and teaching peers, and our team of AI experts, universities can adopt AI safely, make confident assessment decisions and explore new ways to enhance student outcomes day to day.
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- Learning, teaching and assessment
- Taking digital transformation forward in your organisation
- Learning and teaching communities
- Events
Data and intelligence
Through HESA data, tailored datasets and sector-wide data aggregations, we help universities harness the power of data to support informed, evidence-based decision-making.
Our tools, insights and expertise help institutions turn complex data into practical intelligence, supporting strategic planning, benchmarking and performance monitoring across teaching, learning, research and institutional operations.
A range of data analytics services are available to help universities address specific strategic challenges.
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Organisational change and performance
We provide practical advice, guidance and training to help your teams respond to challenges and make the most of digital opportunities. This includes webinars, workshops, toolkits and specialist support tailored to the higher education sector.
You can connect with peers and sector experts to share insight, solve problems and apply best practice across teaching, learning and operations.
For institutions that need more tailored support, members can access competitively priced services such as consultancy, infrastructure reviews and specialist training, giving you additional expertise when and where you need it.