Title: SSG Liaising with researchers Date: Wednesday 20 January 2010 Venue: Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre, Manchester Booking deadline: Friday 8 January 2010 Cost: UCISA Members – £105 Non-Members – £165 Book Online Many institutions are already developing, or are looking to develop, a liaison or relationship management strategy to improve the links between central … Read more
The JISC Conference 2010 is taking place on 12-13 April 2010, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. Make sure you have the date saved in your diary! The main conference will open with a drinks reception on the evening of the 12 April, with a full programme on the 13 April. Pre-conference activities on … Read more
Building partnerships for success – the CBI Higher Education Summit The launch of the CBI Higher Education Task Force report ‘Stronger Together – Businesses and Universities in Turbulent Times ‘ made a big impact in the media, and raised awareness of the importance of strong links between business and universities. The CBI HE Summit on … Read more
Delicious feeds of tagged blog posts, website news feeds etc, all relating to events organisation on subjects such as green events how to make sessions more interactive how to use Twitter at an event pre-event community building and much much more, can now be viewed here on the JISC events blog. The tags being used … Read more
The new JISC Access and Identity Management Programme call has been released: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/08/0809aim.aspx. The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12 noon GMT on Monday 19th October 2009. The JISC is holding a community briefing event where potential bidders will be given information about the background to the call, its … Read more
JISC has funded 14 Workshops and Seminars exploring some of the achievements and challenges in Digitisation and e-Content. Covering a wide range of challenging and cutting-edge developments within digitisation these workshops address questions as diverse as visualising climate change data to digital performance, and issues around robot digitisation technology to Geographical Information Systems in history … Read more
7th – 11th September 2009 Cosener’s House Oxfordshire Working with a number of UK and international partners the Training, Outreach and Education Group at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh has delivered a number of Summer School programmes globally in the past 5 years. In conjunction with the National Grid Service (NGS) this expertise will … Read more
A cross-sector event to help organisations learn from the experiences of others The UK Access Management Federation is pleased to announce that it will be running a federated access event on 14th October 2009 at the ICO in London. The event will focus on a number of cross-sector case studies that have been developed to help … Read more
JISC is a confirmed Event Partner of the 7th international ePortfolio 2009 Conference taking place in London as part of the Learning Forum London from 22-24 June 2009. The conference aims to explore the progress made towards the goal set in 2003 in Poitiers, that by 2010 every citizen should have access to an ePortfolio. … Read more
JISC’s publication Effective Practice with e-Portfolios’ is the inspiration for a two day conference, entitled ‘Telling e-portfolio stories: e-portfolio-based learning’, at the University of Wolverhampton in June 2009. The conference aims to explore the use of e-portfolios from different perspectives including the learner, practitioner, institutional and lifelong learner. Julie Hughes, Principal Lecturer in Innovation in … Read more