How can IT professionals make the step into leadership roles?

Last year, Jisc began work with EDUCAUSE - the US organisation for IT professionals in higher education - to find out the skillset of the CIO of the future. One of the findings of our project was that many aspiring technology leaders find it difficult to make the step up. Louisa Dale, director Jisc group sector intelligence, talks through the learnings and opens a call for IT professionals to get involved in the next phase of work.

Case study: Using iPads to deliver a personalised IT and learning strategy

Case study on how 16 - 18 year old students at Portsmouth College have access to an iPad mini to support independent and personalised learning.

Case study: Making it happen, embedding digital technologies in curriculum activities

Case study on how South Eastern Regional College are taking a strategic approach to managing and developing digital technologies to enhance the student experience.

Sistema brasileiro de comissões parlamentares

Investiga as Comissões Parlamentares do Congresso brasileiro sob um aspecto normativo-institucional, mas também empírico tendo em vista que há uma abordagem sobre a efetiva quantidade de comissões e de seus membros. A análise aborda, portanto, as comissões parlamentares brasileiras, sob aspectos relacionados ao tipo de comissões, seu funcionamento e características, mecanismos legislativos, tempo de duração, forma de recrutamento, número de membros, profissionalização, dando especial relevo para as Comissões Permanentes da Câmara dos Deputados. Verificou-se que o crescimento da quantidade de comissões ao longo do tempo, aliado a outros fatores, como o grau de institucionalização na Constituição de 1988 e a quantidade de Comissões presentes atualmente no processo legislativo do Congresso Nacional, revelam que o sistema de Comissões cumpre um papel importante no processo legislativo, tanto como espaço de deliberação, como aprimoramento técnico do trabalho legislativo.

Fiber Bragg Gratings, IT Techniques and Strain Gauge Validation for Strain Calculation on Aged Metal Specimens

This paper studies the feasibility of calculating strains in aged F114 steel specimens with Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors and infrared thermography (IT) techniques. Two specimens have been conditioned under extreme temperature and relative humidity conditions making comparative tests of stress before and after aging using different adhesives. Moreover, a comparison has been made with IT tecniques and conventional methods for calculating stresses in F114 steel. Implementation of Structural Health Monitoring techniques on real aircraft during their life cycle requires a study of the behaviour of FBG sensors and their wiring under real conditions, before using them for a long time. To simulate aging, specimens were stored in a climate chamber at 70 degrees C and 90% RH for 60 days. This study is framed within the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Non Destructuve Evaluation (NDE) research lines, integrated into the avionics area maintained by the Aeronautical Technologies Centre (CTA) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

The Economics of "Why is it so hard to save a threatened Language?"

We study the language choice behavior of bilingual speakers in modern societies, such as the Basque Country, Ireland andWales. These countries have two o cial languages:A, spoken by all, and B, spoken by a minority. We think of the bilinguals in those societies as a population playing repeatedly a Bayesian game in which, they must choose strategically the language, A or B, that might be used in the interaction. The choice has to be made under imperfect information about the linguistic type of the interlocutors. We take the Nash equilibrium of the language use game as a model for real life language choice behavior. It is shown that the predictions made with this model t very well the data about the actual use, contained in the censuses, of Basque, Irish and Welsh languages. Then the question posed by Fishman (2001),which appears in the title, is answered as follows: it is hard, mainly, because bilingual speakers have reached an equilibrium which is evolutionary stable. This means that to solve fast and in a re ex manner their frequent language coordination problem, bilinguals have developed linguistic conventions based chie y on the strategy 'Use the same language as your interlocutor', which weakens the actual use of B.1