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Broadening the use of JANET to other communities
Robin Arak
Chief Executive, UKERNAR.Arak@ukerna.ac.uk
Agenda
• Drivers for widening access to JANET
• Barriers for widening access
• Removing the barriers
• Progress so far
Drivers – funding bodiesHigher Education
• Promote and support productive interaction between Higher Education, business and the community (increase partnerships)
• Encourage Higher Education to increase access to support lifelong learning
• Increase effective collaborations and strategic alliances among Higher Education institutions, with other parts of the education sector, and with other users of HE.
Drivers – funding bodiesLSC/Further Education
• Extend participation in education, learning and training
• To increase the demand for learning by adults and improve opportunities through better access to learning
• To raise skill levels for national competitiveness
• Reduce number of working age adults who don’t have qualifications
Drivers – Schools Priorities
• Improving primary education
• Transforming secondary education
• Increasing and broadening participation in Higher Education
• Opening up learning through the use of eLearning
Barriers to broadening JANET
• Connection Policy not broad enough– controlled by current stakeholders
• Potential “misuse” of public funding– Subsidising private companies– Potential cross departmental funding
• Lack of resources leading to potential degradation of support
Solutions to broadening JANET
• New connection policy • Costing and pricing models for JANET
– Full cost recovery for non JISC funded organisations
• Planned not to support large communities directly – working with partners e.g. JISC Regional Support Centre, Local Education Authorities
JANET Connection Policy
• schools, and other colleges• local education authorities, learning centres• libraries, museums, galleries, archives• other organisations promoting learning• local and unitary authorities, NHS (for learning)• professional bodies, science/business park• collaborating organisations• commercial organisations delivering/receiving
services to/from the JANET community.• local and unitary authorities & other public sector
bodies for the benefit of the community
Broadening the use of JANET(progress so far)
• Further Education (complete)• Specialist Colleges (in pilot)• Adult & Community Learning (in pilot)• English Schools networks (5 out of 10)• Lifelong Learning Network for Wales (complete)• Spark (Scottish schools intranet) (in
procurement)• Partners of HE, FE & research
e.g. NHS, Local authorities, businesses etc.
Summary
JANET has become
The UK’s education and research network
– a multi-service network supporting a wide community of learners, teachers and researchers, partnering with public and private collaborators
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