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| The Janet User Group for Administration (JUGA) exists to promote the use of information technology by administrators. This directory provides links to useful resources including funding, administration, and mailing lists. | |
| An investigation of approaches to the management and creation of institutional and departmental electronic resources in Scottish universities. Based at Strathclyde and Napier Universities, it is a two year project funded by the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). | ||
| NISS provides the UK education and research community with access to a wide range of information about education, as well as access to networked information resources. There are five main information categories: Education (HE, FE, schools, funding bodies, UK Government), Reference (OPACs, bookshops, museums, ATHENS subscription services, external data services), News (newspapers, current affairs, business sources), Studentzone (information of interest to HE students both on and off campus) and Noticeboard (jobs, research posts, conferences). | ||
| News source for college and university faculty members and administrators. | ||
| Company providing a lecturing service, payroll service and online human resource advisory service for the British education sector, and a management information system developed for community colleges in the USA. | ||
| Details about the role and function of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom which consists of the executive heads of all UK universities, and which exists to promote, encourage and develop the universities in the UK. | ||
| Study of the technologies available to support authentication, reviews the needs expressed by a set of people contacted for the study, and provides the beginnings of a road map on how a national system might be established. | ||
| A non profit consortium of US higher education institutions that facilitates the introduction, use, and access to and management of information resources in teaching, learning, scholarship, and research. Searchable issue of Educom Review available. | ||
| A practitioner's journal for college and university managers and users of information resources information, technology, and services. Full text articles available from 1994. | ||
| US based association focusing on the promotion, advancement, and application of effective planning in higher education. Includes tables of contents of the journal Planning for Higher Education. | ||
| Facility to search all .ac.uk Web pages, all UK Web page titles, and all .uk domain names. | ||
| Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to higher education. | ||
| Documents areas requiring security within the higher education environment such as student records, examination papers, financial information, personnel records, research data, papers, proposals, network and telephone logs, and interpersonal communications including email. Provides an overview of secure protocol technology as a means of enforcing security, secure protocol products and UK government issues. | ||
| Details of a programme to investigate the impact of technologies on higher education and develop applications in support of the JISC strategy. Several reports are available online. Topics covered include visualisation, virtual and remote environments, cluster computing, collaborative and distance working, videoconferencing, use of IT to support the management of institutions, affordable provision of computers for students, presentation technologies, central timetabling by computer, electronic diaries, and use of a multi purpose smart card. | ||
| UCISA represents the whole of higher education in the provision and development of academic, management, and administrative information systems, providing a network of contacts and a powerful lobbying voice. | ||
| The UK's major electronic mailing list service for research in higher education, enabling groups to manage their own discussion lists. Lists are organised alphabetically and access to archives is provided. | ||
| Discussion of the issues attached to the implementation of the ATHENS access management system. Points out that the lessons from ATHENS could suggest that success will only be achieved if at least equal attention is paid to the needs of those who will have to manage the final system as to the technical detail. | ||
| Information for prospective students and parents, a directory of application statistics, and advice for schools, colleges, careers offices, and HE staff. Those seeking to enter into higher education can use the course search facility, navigable by subject, institution, or geographical location. | ||
| AUA is the professional association for all higher education managers and administrators in the UK. | ||
| Association aiming to be a partner in enabling the transformational changes occurring in higher education through effective management and use of information resources, technology, services, and information. | ||
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