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The JISC RSC Smarter, Greener Learning Conference, repeated in three locations across the UK, brings the latest strategic thinking and practical advice to managers in the post-16 education sector to help them accelerate their implementation of sustainable business practices.

The conferences will take place in:

    * London – 26th February 2009, at City Hall

    * Birmingham – 18th March 2009, at the Holiday Inn

    * Edinburgh – 22nd April 2009, at Surgeons’ Hall

Target Audience

Senior managers with an interest or strategic role in sustainable development will benefit from the programme’s focus on strategic planning and emergent best practice supported by regional case studies.

Relevant to colleges, higher education, adult and community and work based learning providers, large and small.

Aims

The conferences build on the work of the JISC SUSTEIT project, led by Professor Peter James from the University of Bradford, these conferences will:

    * inform management decision-making by developing an understanding of resource and energy use across the whole business of post-16 education

    * disseminate findings from the JISC SUSTEIT project in a context relevant to strategic managers

    * encourage the sharing of good practice in IT and ILT management

Programme

The conference programme will include:

    * strategic planning and management

    * the business case for sustainable IT

    * the ICT product lifecycle and its impact on the environment

    * communicating institutional strategies and plans

    * server-side/ data centres

    * desktop management

    * thin client

    * applications

Booking

Link to the relevant website below to book a conference place for the date/venue of your choice:

    * London – www.rsc-london.ac.uk

    * Birmingham – www.rsc-em.ac.uk

    * Edinburgh – www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk