Broadening the use of JANET to other communities

1. Broadening the use of JANET to other communities Robin Arak Chief Executive, UKERNA R.Arak@ukerna.ac.uk

2. Agenda • Drivers for widening access to JANET • Barriers for widening access • Removing the barriers • Progress so far

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Drivers – Schools Priorities • Improving primary education • Transforming secondary education • Increasing and broadening participation in Higher Education • Opening up learning through the use of eLearning

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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