1. Broadening the use of JANET to other communities Robin Arak Chief Executive, UKERNA R.Arak@ukerna.ac.uk

2. Agenda Drivers for widening access to JANET Barriers for widening access Removing the barriers Progress so far

3. Drivers – funding bodies Higher Education Promote and support productive interaction between Higher Education, business and the community (increase partnerships) Encourage Higher Education to increase access to support lifelong learning Increase effective collaborations and strategic alliances among Higher Education institutions, with other parts of the education sector, and with other users of HE.

4. Drivers – funding bodies LSC/Further Education Extend participation in education, learning and training To increase the demand for learning by adults and improve opportunities through better access to learning To raise skill levels for national competitiveness Reduce number of working age adults who don’t have qualifications

5. Drivers – Schools Priorities Improving primary education Transforming secondary education Increasing and broadening participation in Higher Education Opening up learning through the use of eLearning

6. Barriers to broadening JANET Connection Policy not broad enough –controlled by current stakeholders Potential “misuse” of public funding –Subsidising private companies –Potential cross departmental funding Lack of resources leading to potential degradation of support

7. Solutions to broadening JANET New connection policy Costing and pricing models for JANET –Full cost recovery for non JISC funded organisations Planned not to support large communities directly – working with partners e.g. JISC Regional Support Centre, Local Education Authorities

8. JANET Connection Policy schools, and other colleges local education authorities, learning centres libraries, museums, galleries, archives other organisations promoting learning local and unitary authorities, NHS (for learning) professional bodies, science/business park collaborating organisations commercial organisations delivering/receiving services to/from the JANET community. local and unitary authorities & other public sector bodies for the benefit of the community

9. Broadening the use of JANET (progress so far) Further Education (complete) Specialist Colleges (in pilot) Adult & Community Learning (in pilot) English Schools networks (5 out of 10) Lifelong Learning Network for Wales (complete) Spark (Scottish schools intranet) (in procurement) Partners of HE, FE & research e.g. NHS, Local authorities, businesses etc.

10. Summary JANET has become The UK’s education and research network –a multi-service network supporting a wide community of learners, teachers and researchers, partnering with public and private collaborators