JISC RSC YH Exchange News

The free Ithaka/Strategic Content Alliance joint-workshop takes place on Wednesday 25 March 2009, led by Ithaka’s president, Kevin Guthrie.
The workshop will explore Ithaka’s recent project Case Studies in Sustainability, which explores the wide range of sustainability strategies that leaders of digital projects are employing today through a series of eleven in-depth case studies drawn from [...]

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RIBA Learning & Skills Sector Forum Conference & Further Education Building Design Excellence Awards 2009
Building Colleges for our students’ future
RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD

Tuesday 31st March 2009
The RIBA Learning & Skills Sector Forum, in association with the LSN, will host its annual conference and award ceremony on March 31st 2009.
The Building Colleges for [...]

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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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Awarding Sustainability Excellence

Is your institution a leader in sustainability?
Are you making positive changes through exciting initiatives?

Then get yourself recognised in the leading sustainability awards scheme for universities and colleges across the UK.
The 2009 Green Gown Awards are now open!
Now in their fifth year, the Awards recognise the exceptional initiatives being undertaken by universities and colleges across the UK [...]

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Further and higher education establishments across the country could save thousands of pounds – and thousands of tonnes of CO2 emissions – just by introducing simple measures, according to a report issued today by JISC.
The report presents the findings of JISC’s Green Technology report, and outlines ways in which the intelligent use of technology can create savings of cost, [...]

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For those unable to attend our Excellence in Learning Spaces forum, the JISC Regional Support Centre for East Midlands is hosting their New Build forum on 20th November at the Epic Project Centre in Lincoln.
The event is for managers with an involvement in New Builds and sustainability, starting at 10am and ending at 12.30pm with a [...]

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Virtualisation – An Online Primer
Friday 10th October 2008
Venue: Your Desk! (Online event)
14:00 – 15:00
Virtualisation aims to maximise the use of resources by hosting multiple virtual servers on one or more physical servers. The benefit of this can be in reduced costs through less power consumption, less required space, and less frequent purchase of hardware.
This [...]

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The Sustainable Desktop?
Achieving Energy Efficient PCs in Universities and Colleges
2 September 2008
University of Sheffield
The JISC-funded SusteIT project is running a workshop on ‘The Sustainable Desktop’ at the University of Sheffield on September 2nd. The event focuses on ways of reducing IT-related energy consumption through computer powerdown; grid computing; procurement of low [...]

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