College Ystrad Mynach Janet Certificate Service

The College previously used the old Server Certificate Service and has now progressed to using the Janet Certificate Service. It has two particular uses for server certificates: one is to guarantee its Shibboleth  erver and the other is to guarantee another single sign on document management system employed by the College. JL

Resilient internet connectivity at Myerscough College

Myerscough College, a land-based further and higher education college in the north west, is one of the approximately 160 further education colleges in England to take additional connections to Jisc’s Janet network. Ian Brown, director of IT and MIS at the college, talks to us about why they’ve taken an extra four connections.

Case study: Creating a culture shift at Blackburn College

Case study on how three projects at Blackburn College are helping students and staff to engage with digital technologies and enhance learning and teaching and the broader student digital experience.

Case study: Encouraging use of mobile and interactive technologies in the iZone at Redbridge College

Case study on how learners at Redbridge College are using interactive technologies in the iZone to enhance their digital experience.

Case study: Developing digital learning at Prospects College for Advanced Technology

Case study on how a digital learning fellow at Prospects College for Advanced Technology has developed a digital learning strategy that focuses on vocational training and work-based learning.

Case study: Encouraging use of mobile devices at East Berkshire College

Case study about East Berkshire College and how they are encouraging the use of mobile devices to empower student learning and prepare students for the workplace.

South West College, Northern Ireland - technology for employability: FE and skills case studies

Forging links between education and industry

Interdisciplinary experience in the Teacher Training College of Vitoria-Gasteiz: teaching profession module

[EN] The higher education regulation process in Europe, known as the Bologna Process, has involved many changes, mainly in relation to methodology and assessment. The paper given below relates to implementing the new EU study plans into the Teacher Training College of Vitoria-Gasteiz; it is the first interdisciplinary paper written involving teaching staff and related to the Teaching Profession module, the first contained in the structure of the new plans. The coordination of teaching staff is one of the main lines of work in the Bologna Process, which is also essential to develop the right skills and maximise the role of students as an active learning component. The use of active, interdisciplinary methodologies has opened up a new dimension in universities, requiring the elimination of the once componential, individual structure, making us look for new areas of exchange that make it possible for students' training to be developed jointly.

A review paper on Integrated Aquaculture Benefits Project at Federal College of Forestry, Ibadan

This paper highlights some of the practices involved in integrated aquaculture such as poultry-cum-fish, pig-cum-fish, sheep and goat-cum-fish and grasscutter-cum-fish. Also the role of fisheries in alleviating protein deficiency was reviewed. Successful research findings on these practices in aquaculture at the Federal College of Forestry, Jericho, Ibadan (Nigeria) will eventually lead to alleviating protein deficiency of the inhabitants of the largest city in West African thus alleviating poverty in the nation