JISC RSC YH Exchange News

Excellence in e-Learning Forum
10 Feb 2010
10:00 – 16:00
Leeds City College, Park Lane Campus, Leeds, West Yorkshire
The Excellence in e-Learning forum meetings are a means of updating the FE & Skills sector on regional and national developments in e-learning.
The forum meets three times a year and provides the opportunity for discussing and sharing ideas and developments [...]

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The latest case study from our region has gone live on the Excellence Gateway!
Pennine Camphill Community College: Improving network efficiency for small organisations
Ideal for any small organisation, Pennine Camphill Community College found an open-source solution to an overloaded network that, at the same time, solved issues surrounding e-safety and e-security. Its solution increased the efficiency [...]

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New research conducted by Ipsos MORI shows how academic library and IT services are budgeting for today’s economic conditions, but are in need of help to scenario plan for the long term impact of the recession.
‘The impact of the economic recession on university library and IT services’ report, commissioned by JISC, SCONUL and UCISA, contains [...]

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The new Sustainability Online Resource and Toolkit for Education (SORTED) is the one-stop-shop for sustainability issues in further and higher education. Packed with a wide range of resources, SORTED has a wealth of useful tools to help you understand what sustainability means to the sector.
Covering all subject areas including carbon reduction, alternative energy, sustainable procurement [...]

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The JISC invites institutions to submit funding proposals for projects to explore aspects of Green ICT in higher and further education in the UK as outlined below:
Study of Ownership and Responsibility for Energy Costs
This project will investigate the ways in which costs of the energy use associated with ICT are dealt with in universities and [...]

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Spaces are left at this free event:
Implementing Green IT – Cutting ICT-related Costs and Carbon
Monday 24th August 2009
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Topics to be addressed by speakers from Edinburgh Napier University, Norwich City College, SusteIT and others include:
• Identifying cost-effective and easily achieved  improvement opportunities
• Persuading managers and colleagues that Green IT  is feasible and worthwhile
• How automatic powerdown [...]

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The ICT Energy and Carbon Footprinting Tool has been updated (August 2009) to provide a more user-friendly way to help estimate the energy and carbon footprint of an institution.  At its simplest users need only input the number of ICT devices.  The tool is free to use, but a condition of use is that results [...]

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How green is IT? A new tool from JISC is helping universities and colleges calculate just how eco-friendly they are, by estimating the carbon footprint left by their computers.
Institutions can work out their carbon emissions by inputting information
about the numbers of computing devices into the SUSTE-IT footprinting tool.
The tool then estimates the overall amount of electricity used, [...]

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Learning Providers can take advantage of a government scheme that provides an interest-free loan for energy saving projects.  Providers keep the savings made from the project for further reinvestment and repay the loan at the end of the scheme.
Budget 2009 announced over £51.5m will be available for interest free loans. The loans will be repayable [...]

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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 [...]

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