28 July 2005
The Joint Information Systems Committee has received an extra £15 million to invest in IT initiatives that could have a crucial impact on learning, teaching and research.
The money, awarded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, is in addition to £25 million from the spending review agreed earlier this year.
These funds will be poured into the cause of upgrading the UK's digital infrastructure, maximising access to online content and advancing the development of digital repositories.
The funds will contribute to the continued development of the JANET network, as well as the further digitisation of major scholarly collections.
They will also be used to enhance to a range of e-learning programmes, and to further the development of the e-infrastructure and that of a shared infrastructure to support the growing use of institutional repositories.© DeHavilland Information Services plc
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