An independent study to investigate the value Runshaw College gets from its Jisc membership.

1. Jisc’s value to FE:
Runshaw College

2. Runshaw College has three
centres in Leyland and
Chorley, Lancashire, offering
FE, HE and apprenticeships.
It took part in an independent study to investigate the
value it gets from its Jisc membership.
This is what it discovered.
Leyland
Chorley
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3. Runshaw College’s Jisc
subscription for 2020/21 is
£27,846
This subscription alone saves
Runshaw nearly £207,000 of costs
each year – an ROI of 328%
Add in the optional services the college
uses and it saves almost £370,000
Here’s how
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4. Connectivity and cyber security –
headline savings
Runshaw College makes savings and avoids costs by using the Janet Network
and Jisc's cyber security protection:
£54,342
Cyber security cost
saving
£33,644
Janet cost saving
£83,200
Cyber security costs
avoided (2 FTE)
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5. Cyber security – context
“Cyber security critical service protection is a good insurance policy.”
Teaching
A four-hour
outage would
cause 501
hours of
teaching to be
lost
Enrolment
A four-hour
outage could
cause 25
students and
£125,000 to be
lost
Impact
A nine-minute
attack on
Runshaw
College in
2019/20 cost
£29,862
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6. Cyber security -
savings
Runshaw’s annual cost saving:
£54,342
Runshaw’s annual cost avoidance:
£83,200
Runshaw College would
need two FTE to manage
cyber security without the
Jisc services it uses.
This would be:
• unaffordable
• increase institutional risk
• hard to get the skills
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7. Cyber security - trust
Runshaw College has high levels of trust in Jisc‘s cyber
security service. It is seen to be:
Designed for the sector
Information, advice and
guidance is geared towards
FE vulnerabilities and
threats
Well-priced Competitive
Some cyber services are
available from other providers
but their denial of service
offers are deemed sub
optimal compared to Jisc
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8. Connectivity -
savings
How much does Runshaw College
save by using Jisc’s connectivity?
Janet cost saving
£33,644
Janet and managed router service
saves Runshaw 0.2 FTE of effort
£5,432
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9. Connectivity - trust
“Jisc is supportive with dedicated staff and support –
which matters. They understand the network, the peerings
and what will happen and when.”
For Runshaw College, the Janet network, managed router service and cyber services are:
 unique in terms of sector-based network design and proactive support
 key to protecting college IP and assets
They also:
 provide reassurance and security as well as saving effort
 enable the college to operate and meet student and staff expectations around teaching
and access to secure online resources, content and services
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10. The stability of our
underpinning network
frees up time to focus on
the learning and
teaching experience.
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11. Learning resources - benefits
Jisc’s sector-wide negotiations enable
Runshaw College to provide more
digital resources than it would
otherwise be able to:
 e-books form part of the college’s future strategy
 Chest Adobe software savings give all Runshaw
students access to Adobe suite
 Some courses are completely reliant on the
software – this access would be at risk without the
Jisc-negotiated CHEST savings
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12. Learning resources – headline savings
Annual cost saving
(one-off)
Annual effort / cost
avoided
Licensing £182 £1,200
Jisc e-books £6,758 £15,683
CHEST software £142,740
JUSP £800
Totals £149,680 £17,683
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13. Trust and identity – benefits
Single sign on, enabled by Jisc’s federated
access, is a vital tool to make it as easy as
possible for students and staff to access
learning resources.
For Runshaw College it:
 saves time and effort – the college has 36 different
digital products that need access
 provides access to relevant expertise and support
Federated access
helps reduce
security risk
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14. Trust and identity – headline savings
Annual effort / cost avoided
Federated access:
technology
310 hours/
£5,373
Certificate service £170
Totals
0.1 FTE /
£5,543
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15. Help and support – benefits
Runshaw College values Jisc’s advice,
guidance, events, development and
consultancy
 JiscMail and Teams groups allow the college to
share practice, access the community and benefit
from relevant advice such as assisted technology
 Security briefings are highly relevant to the FE
sector with pattern spotting and urgent briefings
particularly important
 Jisc security events such as Digifest and the
Security Conference are written into the college’s
security policy
Jisc’s elevation
model has helped
us strategically
plan ahead
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16. Jisc’s value
For Runshaw College, Jisc is not simply a supplier – it is a
trusted partner:
“Jisc allows us to deal
with one provider, who we
trust and is impartial, and
not multiple providers”
“Jisc is an essential
sector service.”
"Jisc understands the
sector and knows our
tools and software and
that matters.”
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17. Without Jisc…
“Without Jisc, we couldn’t afford
services or would have to save
elsewhere which would increase
risks and worsen staff and student
experience.”
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18. Runshaw College worked with independent
consultant Richard Hadfield to look at its
portfolio of Jisc services and analyse the
cost savings, costs avoided and the benefits
to learners, staff and the college as a whole.
Runshaw’s senior managers, teachers, librarians, learning resource managers, IT and
finance staff took part in workshops and post-workshop meetings to share their views.
Together they agreed the findings.
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