News
The speakers presentations for the Campus Network Infrastructure event and now available here
Posted: 9 August 2010
UCISA's Corporate Information Systems Group has produced a graphical version of their annual survey of corporate information systems in use across the sector.
Posted: 29 July 2010
The University of Nottingham have won the 2010 UCISA Staff Development Group Best Practice Award.
Posted: 21 July 2010
UCISA has responded to the Ofcom consultation on the processes to implement the copyright infringement measures included in the Digital Economy Act.
Posted: 16 July 2010
The University of Liverpool has won the JISC/UCISA sponsored ICT category at the Green Gown Awards for their PowerDown initiative.
Posted: 17 June 2010
Arthur Spirling, Director of ICT at Imperial College, has received a MBE for services to Higher Education in the Queen's birthday honours list.
Posted: 17 June 2010
The data collection of phase of the project is now complete and outputs are being tested. Resources will be available in the late summer.
Posted: 15 June 2010
Jean Sykes, the London School of Economics’ Chief Information Officer, has received an MBE for services to higher education in the
Queen’s birthday honours list.
Posted: 15 June 2010
As from June 2010, Karl Yellop (Cambridge University) takes over the role of Chairman of the UCISA-PG Software Procurement Group.
Posted: 3 June 2010
The shortlisted colleges and universities for the Green ICT category, jointly sponsored by UCISA and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), have been announced.
Posted: 6 May 2010
Entries are invited for the UCISA Staff Development Group's Best Practice Award
Posted: 5 May 2010
The data collection for the 2008/9 exercise is now under way.
Posted: 29 March 2010
The 2009 UCISA Award for Excellence, sponsored by Eduserv, has been won by Canterbury Christ Church University for their iBorrow project.
Posted: 18 February 2010
Three Universities were shortlisted for the prestigious Institute of IT Training Annual Awards.
Posted: 9 February 2010
UCISA are amongst a number of signatories to an open letter to members of the House of Lords regarding the provisions for copyright infringement and public access to the internet via institutions.
Posted: 3 February 2010
UCISA and Eduserv have signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
Posted: 22 January 2010
Slides are now available from the 'Liaising with Researchers' event held in Manchester on 20 January 2010.
Posted: 22 January 2010
UCISA is delighted to announce that it will be sponsoring the ICT category of the prestigious Green Gown awards.
Posted: 11 January 2010
The first batch of resources from UCISA’s ITIL for the HE Community Project is now available.
Posted: 18 December 2009
The report from the Value for Money study of the JANET network has been published.
Posted: 18 December 2009
HEFCE has set out information and guidance on the way it counts students for teaching funding purposes and in particular, how it defines completion.
Posted: 16 December 2009
UCISA's Higher Education IT Statistics (HEITS) for the academic year 2007/8 have now been published
Posted: 8 December 2009
The University of Derby have won the UCISA Staff Development Group Best Practice Award for 2009.
Posted: 4 December 2009
Tim Marshall, CEO of JANET (UK), has responded to the open letter UCISA wrote expressing concerns about the plans for regional network delivery.
Posted: 11 November 2009
UKBA have issued a toolkit for the Bulk Data Transfer mechanisms for the points based immigration system.
Posted: 8 October 2009
A report examining the effects of the recession on libraries and IT services in UK higher education has been published by the JISC.
The research was carried out by Ipsos MORI and was commissioned by JISC with support from SCONUL and UCISA.
The research was carried out by Ipsos MORI and was commissioned by JISC with support from SCONUL and UCISA.
Posted: 8 October 2009
JANET (UK) have advised that following a re-procurement of the server certificate service by TERENA, it will be necessary for institutions with switch to the new service from the current GlobalSign provision.
Posted: 30 September 2009
Bookings are now open for the fifth (2010) cohort of the Future Leaders Programme.
Posted: 30 September 2009
UCISA has written to Tim Marshall, JANET CEO, raising a number of issues regarding the planned move to a direct delivery model for regional networking.
Posted: 9 September 2009
UCISA is looking to commission a study to explore in detail what impact in financial terms of the loss of key IT services within UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and is now inviting tenders. The tender is open to both institutions and the commercial sector.
Posted: 21 August 2009
The UK Border Agency have announced a seminar for suppliers of student records systems and for those institutions that are developing their own solution for transfering data to and from the Sponsor Management System.
Posted: 10 August 2009
The JISC is seeking feedback on the first draft of its new strategy, due to be launched in December this year.
Posted: 28 July 2009
Submissions are invited for this year’s Staff Development Group Best Practice Award. The theme of the Award is “Thinking out of the box in developing people”
Posted: 13 July 2009
Posted: 25 June 2009
A number of institutions have suffered problems as a result of internet service providers (ISPs) blocking or delaying mail from institutions to students or applicants with accounts on their services. JANET (UK) have issued advice which may be of interest.
Posted: 24 June 2009
You can now follow UCISA on Twitter. Look out for our news and live updates from events.
Posted: 2 June 2009
The DITSS Subgroup and Service Desk Group are holding a joint symposium in July at Aston Business School, see Advisory and Support Staff Symposium 2009.
Posted: 18 May 2009
The UCISA Technology Enhanced Survey has been quoted in HEFCE's revised strategy for e-learning.
Posted: 31 March 2009
UCISA and JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee) have formalised their working partnership with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. This official partnership formalises the already successful collaboration between both organisations. It will help define projects and programmes of work, enabling JISC and UCISA to work together in an even more effective and complimentary way.
Posted: 31 March 2009
The recently announced partnership between UCISA and JISC coincides with a UCISA Guardian supplement published today (31 March 2009). The articles raise awareness of UCISA’s recent ‘Top Concerns’ poll of IT Service Directors and education professionals.
Posted: 31 March 2009
HEFCE has today published 'Enhancing learning and teaching through the use of technology - a revised approach to HEFCE's strategy for e-learning'.
Posted: 26 March 2009
The latest specifications for the transfer of files to and from the points based immigration database are now available. UKBA have requested that comments are submitted by close of business this Friday 20 March, so please submit any comments to the UCISA Executive Secretary by noon on Friday to allow an aggregated response to be prepared.
Posted: 18 March 2009
Streaming video from the UCISA 2009 Conference is now available, with support from Sonic Foundry. An impressive array of experts addressed the key themes around your top concerns with Business Showcases, University Showcases and keynote speakers from the UK and overseas.
Posted: 16 March 2009
The data collection for the 2007/8 HEITS exercise is now underway. The statistics are used by suppliers to get a feel for trends within the sector, by government departments as input to help inform policy and by many institutions to compare their provision with other institutions. They have also been recognised as the only collection of statistics on Higher Education IT by the Office of National Statistics.
Posted: 3 March 2009
The results from the 2008/9 Top Concerns survey have now been published.
Posted: 24 February 2009
UCISA-IG would like to draw your attention to a "Green Data Centres in Universities and Colleges" half-day event being run by the JISC funded SusteIT project at Imperial College London.
Posted: 20 February 2009
Findings from the 2008 survey of Technology Enhanced Learning have been cited in two publications.
Posted: 13 February 2009
The results from the survey of corporate information systems in use in the sector are now available.
Posted: 6 February 2009
JISC has announced that Guy Lambert has been appointed as the Managing Director of the new JISC Services Company.
Posted: 5 February 2009
The Support Services' Communications Group has just launched its own blog - http://cliwg.blogspot.com/
As well as providing updates about the group's activities, the blog aims to stimulate discussion about a wide range of topics relating to communication and liaison.
As well as providing updates about the group's activities, the blog aims to stimulate discussion about a wide range of topics relating to communication and liaison.
Posted: 2 February 2009
You can now subscribe to receive updates on UCISA news and events via your preferred RSS reader.
Posted: 26 January 2009
A brief review of UCISA's work over the past year has been published ahead of the AGM in March.
Posted: 24 December 2008
Following discussions with the UKBA a draft list of fields required for the interface with the Sponsor Management System being deployed as part of the implementation of the points based immigration system has been released.
Posted: 23 December 2008
UCISA is pleased to announce that the 2008 Award for Excellence, sponsored by Eduserv, is awarded to the University of Glamorgan for their GlamStart project.
Posted: 16 December 2008
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is seeking to appoint members to a new Infrastructure and Resources committee (JIR). JIR will oversee the distribution of a budget of approximately £30 million per annum to fund innovation, research, the development and provision of infrastructure and online resources and systems. In addition JIR will have an overview of more than £50 million used to fund the academic network in the UK (provided by JANET).
Posted: 12 December 2008
The formation of the JISC Infrastructure and Resources Committee (JIR) and other changes to the JISC committee structure have been announced. The changes result from a review of the committee structure to better align the committees with the JISC’s strategic aims.
Posted: 3 December 2008
A series of podcasts from the recent CISG Conference in Manchester have been published online. This podcast pilot project was supported by University of London Computer Centre, look out for more audio and video content from UCISA events in future.
Posted: 3 December 2008
Following feedback from the readiness questionnaire and proposal document on the introduction of the extended character set, UCAS have advised that the introduction of the extended character set into their products has been deferred. It will not now be introduced for the 2010 admissions cycle.
Posted: 21 November 2008
Sir Alan Langlands, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dundee, has been appointed Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. He takes up the post on 1 April 2009, succeeding Professor David Eastwood.
Posted: 20 November 2008
The contributions commissioned by John Denham, the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, to inform the enquiry into higher education have now been published.
Posted: 13 November 2008
Universities UK issued a press release on Thursday 30 October, responding to the planned implementation of the points based immigration system for overseas students.
Posted: 3 November 2008
A reminder that entries for the 2008 Award for Excellence, sponsored by Eduserv, are now invited. The closing date is Friday 21 November, click here for more details of the award and how to take part.
Posted: 24 October 2008
UCISA's Higher Education IT Statistics (HEITS) for the academic year 2006/7 have now been published.
Posted: 21 October 2008
HEFCE has today announced funding of £5.7 for pilot projects that will open up existing high-quality education resources from higher education institutions.
Posted: 15 October 2008
The Infrastructure Group is seeking to promote best practise amongst its members by sharing case studies. The first of these have now been published, including submissions from Cardiff, Reading, Edinburgh and King's College London. Take a look at the published studies here, and submit your own.
Posted: 29 September 2008
In his speech to the Universities UK Conference in Cambridge on 11 September John Denham, the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, recognised the need to use the opportunities that technology offers in higher education provision.
Posted: 15 September 2008
Every two years UCISA invites its community to take part in a survey to determine those matters which are of real concern to its members. The UCISA Top Concerns Survey was first run in 2003/4, was repeated in 2004/5 and has been run biannually ever since. The 2008/9 survey is now underway with submissions of candidate concerns now invited.
Posted: 9 September 2008
The results from a survey carried out by members of the Learning and Teaching working group of UCISA’s Teaching Learning and Information Group (UCISA-TLIG) on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) have now been published on the UCISA website.
Posted: 8 September 2008
Following a meeting on 7 August between representatives of UCISA and members of the JISC Executive regarding the future support of access management implementations, JISC have issued an announcement on the future support arrangements.
Posted: 11 August 2008
The University of Nottingham have won the UCISA Staff Development Group Best Practice Award for 2008.
The award was presented to Sharon Caine of the University's Information Services Division at the UCISA TLIG-SDG User Support Conference.
The award was presented to Sharon Caine of the University's Information Services Division at the UCISA TLIG-SDG User Support Conference.
Posted: 1 July 2008
EduCoMS (www.educoms.net) is a brand new community site for IT professionals in the higher and further education sectors using Microsoft technologies. Featuring document libraries, forums, wiki pages and news on a wide range of Microsoft products, EduCoMS is run by and for the HE and FE IT community.
Posted: 19 June 2008
The SCONUL and UCISA Executive Boards (and subsequently a sub-group from both communities) met recently to discuss the recommedations from the HAERVI project and potential further activity. An update on activity is available on the HAERVI section of the UCISA website.
Posted: 10 June 2008
UCISA has published guidance on the access management options open to institutions.
Posted: 27 March 2008
This year's Staff Development Group's Best Practice Award has the theme of Opportunities for Staff Development within project management practices.
The closing date for submissions is Friday 2 May 2008.
Posted: 15 March 2008
The 2006 statistics are now published
The exercise to collect information for 2006/7 will begin shortly.
The exercise to collect information for 2006/7 will begin shortly.
Posted: 17 January 2008
The results of a project funded under the HEFCE Leadership, Governance and Management programme to look at value for money in printing and copying are now available.
Posted: 14 January 2008
Information regarding WEEE registered suppliers is available from the WEEE Register Society.
Posted: 14 January 2008
Results from the recent call by TLIG's Communications, Liaison and Information Working Group are now available.
Posted: 30 November 2007
