Janet

Janet | September 08, 2016

Further education (FE) providers having to support learners resitting English and maths GCSEs are set to benefit from the launch of new e-books mapped to the curriculum.Jisc is making available 23 core maths and English resources through its e-books for FE service. Practitioners and learners of colleges subscribing to Jisc Collections can access the resources via the ebrary platform, offered by ProQuest. This includes maths titles from examination boards, Edexcel, OCR, SQA and WJEC, and E...

Janet | March 15, 2016

Our new survey has found that only 17% of students are genuinely concerned by cyber security despite it affecting many of them. Students are unsurprisingly more worried about grades (90%), but are also more often worried about money (79%) or friendships (53%). The findings come as the government is set to address the growing threat of cyber-attacks by doubling investment in cyber security for 2016, spending £1.9 billion over the next five years. The national cyber plan includes the ...

Janet | June 16, 2016

Interested in what the future might look like for higher education, further education and skills? We have been sketching out ideas for what technology might hold for your sectors. Andy McGregor, our deputy chief innovation officer, introduces the visions and calls for comments. Jisc's vision is to make the UK the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world. To help us to achieve that goal we decided to develop a set of shared targets for the sectors for 2020 to ...

Janet | July 27, 2016

Today the Janet network serves 18 million users worldwide and provides UK research and education with a reliable, high capacity, world-class network, enabling national and international communication and collaboration.The upgrade will see the core network capacity across some paths increased from 200Gb to 600Gb, improving potential access to distance learning and web-based educational resources while continuing to provide organisations, students, researchers, academics and staff with an efficien...