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Spotlight on Digital Poverty in Further Education: the top stats that should be driving your digital transformation in 2025

Digital poverty can be defined as “the inability to interact with the online world fully, when, where and how an individual needs to” (Digital Poverty Alliance). This includes consideration of devices, connectivity, access, capability, motivation and support, and participation.  The 2023/24 digital experience insights surveys shed light on the current state of learners using digital technologies, […]

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Digital experience insights Higher Education

Spotlight on Digital Poverty in Higher Education: the top stats that should be driving your digital transformation in 2025

Digital poverty comes in many forms. Access to good tech and devices, support to use the technology, and the cost implication of this, all affect a student’s learning experience and their future career.  The 2023/24 digital experience insights surveys shed light on the current state of students’ learning using digital technologies but what can we […]

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The new wave of university localism

On the 4th November, the new Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, announced that the £9,250 per year headline university tuition fee will rise to £9,535 for standard full-time courses (also announced was a cut in the headline fees for foundation years, but that has excited much less comment). The fees changes come with […]

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Further Education and Skills Higher Education

Implementing a data strategy to create a trusted data culture

Leading data strategist Monica Jones shares insights into how she implemented a strategy that educated and challenged barriers around data to facilitate a culture where data is an asset, not a burden. My mission was to create and implement a data strategy that aligned and complemented our wider 10 year university strategy and fosters a […]

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Improving internal reporting and changing conversations with Discover Graduate Outcomes

In today’s rapidly changing education landscape, universities are increasingly relying on data-driven insights to influence their strategies and planning. With this in mind, having platforms like Discover Graduate Outcomes (DGO) offers a wealth of information to institutions looking to understand the complexities of graduate outcomes and employment trends.   DGO equips institutions with a comprehensive data […]

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Building digital capability Community

Final reflections from the outgoing head of digital capability

  When you come to the end of your working life and are facing a shift and change of pace, it’s often a good time to stop and reflect on what you have been doing and what has really impacted across your career. In 2017, due to a drop in student numbers, I was one […]

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Building digital capability Employability

New employability question set for building digital capabilities

We are pleased to announce that on 28 May 2024, we released a brand new question set on in the Discovery tool as part of the building digital capabilities service. These questions and the accompanying resource bank are designed to support students developing and using their digital skills for future employment. ‘Recognising digital skills for […]

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Riding the roller coaster of digital change

This second blog about community activities at Digifest 2024 includes reflections from the workshops hosted by the building digital capabilities and digital experience insights teams. Our community workshop at Digifest 2024, with its theme of ‘Imagine the future’ provided a great opportunity for members of the building digital capability and digital experience insights communities to […]

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Learning analytics community meet-up at Digifest 2024

Empowering communities is one of three core pillars of Jisc’s strategy for 2022 to 2025 and it was great to see so many of our communities taking the opportunity to meet in the dedicated area. This is the first of our reflections on community activity at Digifest 2024 from Rachel Glynn, senior analytics consultant. A […]

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The agile college

Posted on behalf of Andrew McFadyen, senior consultant for Further Education, JiscYou may have heard of agile working, although many of us may not use it in our working day. In this new guide, Andrew shows how Jisc’s digital elevation tool can help your college work in an agile manner. Agile methodologies and scrum processes […]