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Education leaders take inspiration and learn from Amazon
There’s a disconnection between the increasing digital and technical needs of employers and the skills of today’s college and university leavers.
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Tackling digital transformation together
The 49th meeting of the Jisc student experience experts group brought together representatives from across the tertiary education sector to discuss digital transformation: what it is (and what it’s not), how to put essential building blocks in place, and how to optimise success.
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Library and teaching staff collaborate to better invest under-pressure resource budgets
The shift towards online and blended learning has increased the need for library and learning resources to be more widely available in electronic format, which creates both opportunity and challenge in equal measure.
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Jisc and Wazoku launch competition to encourage students to solve industry problems – and earn money
Jisc has partnered with Wazoku to launch an innovative competition for students, who could win up to £5,000 or an internship.
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HESA and Jisc confirm merger exploration
Today, Thursday 17 February, HESA and Jisc confirm that the two organisations are exploring a merger.
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Showcase edtech conference, Digifest, is now free for Jisc members
Jisc is inviting staff from all member organisations to attend its annual edtech conference, Digifest, for free.
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Jisc and our partner organisations raise concerns about Pearson price increase
Jisc and our partner organisations have written to publishers Pearson, asking them to take urgent and immediate action to reconsider and reverse their recently - announced price increases to e-textbook titles.
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Colleges and universities must urgently patch code flaw to avoid ‘severe’ risk of cyber attack
Jisc is urging colleges and universities to quickly fix an “easily-exploited” flaw in widely used computer code that presents a “severe” risk of cyber attack.
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Lord Jim Knight confirmed as keynote speaker at Digifest 2022
Technology disruptor, digital poverty campaigner and former schools minister, Lord Jim Knight, will give the opening keynote at Jisc’s showcase edtech conference, Digifest, in March 2022.
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Ransomware is our top cyber threat, say colleges and universities
Against a background of a huge increase in ransomware attacks against the tertiary education sector, a new survey reports that record numbers of college and university leaders are taking cyber security seriously.