The Higher Education Funding Council for England has released the HEFCE Review of JISC.
Here's an excerpt from the recommendations:
• JISC activity should be focused on achieving a large impact:
- Activities need to be clearly linked to the sectors’ priorities
- JISC should offer sector leadership through "routes to best practice," wherever such practice resides
- Research and development activity should focus on horizon-scanning and thought leadership
- Services and projects should be rationalised, with a view to significantly reducing their number
• JISC should be funded through a combination of grants and subscriptions/user charges
• It should become a separate legal entity and the implications of this for the four companies should be reviewed
• Governance arrangements should be clarified, to ensure that the Board takes clear overall strategic control
• The internal structure should be clarified and simplified, to improve efficiency and control
• A plan for the proposed internal structure and operations should estimate the savings to be achieved
• There should be discussions between JISC, the funders, sector representatives and other bodies, to determine an overall funding strategy for ICT in the HE and FE sectors.
Read more about it at "Questions and Answers—HEFCE's Review of JISC."
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