Over the past few months, the UK  Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) has been carrying out a major review of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). JISC is the organization that funds advanced networking, content licensing, and many other vital activities for the UK higher education sector; it has provided key leadership for many innovations, and is widely recognized as a world leader. CNI and JISC have collaborated on numerous areas over the years, and have hosted a series of meetings to bring together US and UK leaders to explore developments of common interest.

The report of the review, along with an initial JISC response, can be found at

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/02/review.aspx

(the link to the report is towards the bottom of the page)

I think that this material will be of interest to everybody concerned with the future of higher education in the UK, or with the development of national strategies for funding and supporting advanced technology infrastructure.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI