Overview of content related to 'further education'
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Further education (often abbreviated "FE", called continuing education in U.S. English) is a term mainly used in connection with education in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It is post-compulsory education (in addition to that received at secondary school), that is distinct from the education offered in universities (higher education). It may be at any level above compulsory education, from basic training to Higher National Diploma or Foundation Degree. A distinction is usually made between FE and higher education ("HE") which is education at a higher level than secondary school, usually provided in distinct institutions such as universities. FE in the United Kingdom therefore includes education for people over 16, usually excluding universities. It is primarily taught in FE colleges (which are similar in concept to United States community colleges, and sometimes use "community college" in their title), work-based learning, and adult and community learning institutions. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Further education)
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Article summary | Date |
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Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Acceptance in Academic Environments |
In the light of a workshop run by the Geological Society of London and Wikimedia UK, Brian Whalley reflects on the attitudes and practice of academia in respect of present-day Wikipedia content. |
July 2012, issue69, feature article |
Wiki Or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis |
Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Why UK Further and Higher Education Needs Local Software Developers |
Mahendra Mahey and Paul Walk discuss the work of the Developer Community Supporting Innovation (DevCSI) Project which focuses on building capacity for software developers in UK Further and Higher Education to support innovation in the sector. |
October 2010, issue65, feature article |
What's in SOSIG for Further Education? |
Emma Place gives an insight into the pitfalls that await new users of the Internet in their search for relevant and quality materials and explains how SOSIG has catered for the needs of both FE students and practitioners. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
What's in PSIgate for Further Education? |
John Blunden-Ellis describes the materials and services available from the RDN subject service PSIgate in respect of students and practitioners in FE. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
What's in Humbul for Further Education? |
Randy Metcalfe provides an overview of the materials and services of use to humanities practitioners in the FE sector. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
What's in GEsource for Further Education? |
John Blunden-Ellis provides a view of the material available to FE from GEsource, the RDN subject service for geography and environment. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
What's in EEVL for Further Education |
Roddy MacLeod gives |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
What's in Artifact for Further Education? |
Jayne Everard writes about the areas covered by the new subject service Artifact and takes us through the facilities on offer to FE practitioners. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
What the Resource Discovery Network Is Doing for Further Education |
Mark Williams highlights some of the services that the RDN provides for the benefit of FE users. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
What Happens If I Click on This?': Experiences of the Archives Hub |
Jane Stevenson describes the results of usability testing for the Archives Hub Web site. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the Learning Object Metadata Standard? |
Jean Godby assesses the customised subsets of metadata elements that have been defined by 35 projects using the LOM standard to describe e-learning resources. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
Welsh Libraries and Social Media: A Survey |
Alyson Tyler outlines the results of a survey of Welsh libraries, their access to, and use of, social media, and offers a sample business case. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Web Focus: Widening the Focus for the Future |
Brian Kelly reviews the history of the Web Focus post and describes funding changes which gives Web Focus a much wider remit. |
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Web Focus: The Web on Your TV |
Brian Kelly takes a look at a digital TV box which provides Web and email access in your living room. |
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Web Focus: Report On The Sixth Institutional Web Management Workshop |
Brian Kelly with a report on the Sixth Institutional International Web Management Workshop held this year at the University of Strathclyde. |
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Web Focus: QA Focus Has Finished - Let's Start Embedding QA |
Brian Kelly reviews the JISC-funded QA Focus Project and argues that developers should be using quality assurance principles. |
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Web Cache: The National JANET Web Cache Progress Report |
George Neisser discusses the plans of the National Caching Service. |
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Virtual Rooms, Real Meetings |
Andy Powell takes a brief look at VRVS, a desktop video-conferencing tool that can be used to support collaborative activities between groups of geographically distributed researchers. |
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Updated JISC Guides Are Now Available |
Emma Beer describes the new JISC Resource Guides. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
Towards a Pragmatic Framework for Accessible E-Learning |
Lawrie Phipps, Neil Witt and Brian Kelly while recognising the importance of accessibility in e-learning resources, query the universal applicability of the Web Accessibility Initiative's guidelines and describe a pragmatic framework which provides a broader context for their use. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
The Second Life of UK Academics |
John Kirriemuir introduces a series of studies investigating how the Second Life environment is being used in UK Higher and Further Education. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
The People's Network and the Learning Revolution: Building the NOF Digitize Programme |
Susi Woodhouse brings us up to date with developments. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
The JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework |
Jenny Rowley introduces the JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
The JISC Annual Conference 2007 |
Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference. |
April 2007, issue51, event report |
The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number? |
Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop |
William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003. |
July 2003, issue36, event report |
The History of History |
Stephen Smith explains the background to the relaunch of IHR-Info as HISTORY. |
November 1997, issue12, project update |
The Evolution of an Institutional E-prints Archive at the University of Glasgow |
William Nixon with some practical advice based on the Glasgow experience. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library |
Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
The Digital Preservation Coalition |
Neil Beagrie reports on proposals to establish a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
The ARK Project: Analysing Raptor at Kent |
Leo Lyons describes how University of Kent librarians are benefitting from Raptor's ability to produce e-resource usage statistics and charts. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository |
Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Supporting Material for Database Training, or 'Here’s One I Prepared Earlier' |
Alison McNab looks at the wealth of resources available for trainers provided by the information service and content providers within JISC-supported services. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions |
Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Support Models for Open Source Deployment |
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on OSS Watch's one-day conference on support models held in London in June 2004. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
Subject Portals |
Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Shibboleth Installation Workshop |
James Sankar and Masha Garibyan report on the first ever Shibboleth Installation Workshop in the UK. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
ShibboLEAP: Seven Libraries and a LEAP of Faith |
Martin Moyle introduces the ShibboLEAP Project, a multi-institution Shibboleth adoption in London, and hopes that later adopters will benefit from its findings. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
Seeing Is Believing: The JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme |
Chris Awre reviews the JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme and offers an insight to the outcomes of recent studies. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
