An independent study to investigate the value Coleg Sir Gâr gets from its Jisc membership

1. Jisc’s value to FE:
Coleg Sir Gâr value study

2. Coleg Sir Gâr has five
campuses in across south
west Wales, 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. Camarthen x 2
Llanelli
Ammanford
Gelli Aur campus
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3. Coleg Sir Gâr’s Jisc
subscription for 2020/21
is £27,846
That subscription alone saves the
college £197,000 of costs each year –
an ROI of 201%
Add in the college’s use of optional
services and the saving is £256,000
Here’s how
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4. Cyber security – headline savings
Coleg Sir Gâr saves more than £100,000 a year by
using Jisc’s cyber security support.
£53,847
In cost saving
£54,600
Cost avoidance
1 FTE
without Jisc, Coleg Sir Gâr would
need one whole extra cyber-skilled
full-time member of staff
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5. Regarding cyber
security, it’s difficult
to imagine Jisc not
being here
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6. Cyber security – context
A cyber security-based outage would seriously impact teaching as far
more resources are now online.
Teaching
A four-hour outage
would cause 1045
hours of teaching
to be lost,
impacting 90% of
teachers
Enrolment
A four-hour outage
during application
and enrolment
could cause 25
students and
£136,500 pa
income to be lost
Impact
A 132-minute
attack on Coleg
Sir Gâr (based on
its 2019/20
attacks) cost
£437,976
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7. Jisc is there watching
proactively…and will
become more important
with more cyber attacks
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8. Cyber security - trust
For Coleg Sir Gâr, the Janet network and Jisc cyber security are crucial
to protect the college’s assets.
It enables it to operate and meet student and staff expectations around teaching and access to secure
online resources, content and services. These services enable the college:
Designed for the sector
information, advice and
guidance is geared towards
FE vulnerabilities and threats
Unique in terms of sector
focus, intelligence and
knowledge of sector-
specific attacks and threats.
Practical
Jisc advice led a new two-
factor authentication mandate
– a critical part of protecting
staff, students, systems and
information assets
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9. Connectivity - savings
Coleg Sir Gâr enjoys other connectivity-related
savings:
Janet cost saving
£22,609
savings plus £11,050 (0.2FTE)
eduroam
£29,900 (1FTE)
The sector-wide federated service is heavily used and
especially important for learners and staff as most PCs
have been removed from the college
Jisc provides a
critical backbone
service which is
fundamental to what
we do
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10. Learning resources - benefits
Jisc’s sector-wide negotiations mean
Coleg Sir Gâr can provide more digital
resources to learners than it would
otherwise be able to:
 Chest Adobe software savings mean access to Adobe
for many learners, with some courses completely reliant
on the software
 The vocational resources are very important to the
student experience and would be unaffordable without Jisc
 Jisc eBooks provide ease of access, accessibility
features, reduce the risk of losing stock and during Covid
helped to keep a consistent student experience
 Jisc’s license subscription manager ”is very useful and
a key tool”.
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11. The Jisc label gives
digital resources extra
kudos, particularly for
higher level staff
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12. Learning resources – headline savings
Jisc’s learning resources save Coleg Sir Gâr £69,905.
How?
Annual cost saving
Licensing £3,169
Jisc e-books £14,076
CHEST software £52,660
Totals £69,905
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13. Trust and identity – headline savings
Annual effort / cost avoided
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. It also saves money:
Federated access:
Library
162 hours /
£2,479
Federated access:
technology
260 hours /
£5,133
Certificate service £736
Totals
0.2 FTE /
£8,348
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14. Student and staff experience
Coleg Sir Gâr values Jisc’s advice, guidance, events,
development and consultancy
The college saved £5,000 of annual costs and effort by
using Jisc’s digital experience insights survey, which
helps define its digital strategy.
The digital
insights survey
gives us the
foundations to
plan ahead.
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15. Jisc’s value
For Coleg Sir Gâr, Jisc is not simply a supplier –
it is a trusted partner:
“Jisc plays a vital role.” "Jisc has brought the
Welsh FE library
community together."
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16. Without Jisc…
“We would probably invent
something like Jisc. Pooling
resources and solving problems –
but at a cost.”
“Without Jisc we would need to look
at other purchasing consortia which
would take time and effort that
would be considerable, especially
initially.”
“We would lose trusted guidance.”
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17. Coleg Sir Gâr 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.
Coleg Sir Gâr’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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