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American Colleges and Universities
Downloads American Colleges and Universities app contain database of more than 8000 USA colleges and universities. You can find detailed information about institution in the U.S.that has been accredited for post-secondary education, including universities...
[August 28, 2009, 6:31]
Smart Cambridge University Colleges Streamline Financial Operations
White Papers The University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has 31 colleges, which attract leading academics, students, and visitors from all over the world. In 2000, a change in the university's accounting format prompted two colleges, Emmanuel and...
[February 9, 2008, 0:17]
Kentucky Colleges Improve Communications and Save U.S.$400,000 With New e-Mail System
White Papers The 16 colleges of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) - on more than 65 campuses - needed to reduce the rising costs of student mailings and improve communications among college faculty, staff, and students.
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
Campus Agreement Reduces Licensing Costs by 75 Per Cent for Six German Colleges
White Papers With the five other colleges in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, it forms a network that employs 1,200 lecturers and trains around 20,000 students each year. Colleges in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, each had disparate Information Technology (IT) systems...
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
Records Management Best Practices: Five Considerations for Colleges and Universities
White Papers Obviously, colleges and universities have to address compliance mandates. Educational institutions often operate in a heterogeneous records environment-they need to manage both paper and electronic documents.
[June 19, 2009, 1:20]
US colleges may charge for songs
News The effort is proceeding on several fronts, the most advanced charge being led by a committee of university and entertainment industry officials that is now collecting information from music services on behalf of individual colleges.
[August 4, 2003, 11:15]
Napster hit with lawsuit from rock group Metallica
News The rock group Metallica has sued Napster and several colleges, claiming, among other things, that they violated copyright law by allowing illegal swapping of its music. Dozens of colleges have banned its use, claiming it hogged bandwidth and...
[April 14, 2000, 8:27]
Lecturers give full marks to e-learning
News Computers and the Internet are playing a vital role in improving teaching at the UK's universities and colleges, according to latest research that says Britain's lecturers are giving their backing to e-learning.
[January 6, 2004, 16:25]
Novell Case Study: RedSpider
White Papers RedSpider is a system designed by the IT departments of several non-profit community colleges in the Netherlands, and now runs identity management systems for 12 colleges, representing around 30 percent of the sector.
[April 5, 2007, 1:00]
Secure advice for higher education
News All colleges and universities in the UK have been offered new guidance on IT security, it was announced on Wednesday. The two organisations are issuing a "security toolkit" to help universities and colleges assess and minimise the risks they face.
[November 23, 2005, 14:55]
Becta touts benefits of ICT for schools
News Technology has a pivotal role to play in improving the performance of schools and colleges, a four-year study has revealed Managed by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), the project investigated the role of...
[June 26, 2007, 11:36]
Community College District Upgrades to Centralized, Scalable Student Database
White Papers The Maricopa Community Colleges (MCCCD) in Arizona relied on 10 individual mainframe computers, one per college, to handle its business processes and its Student Information System (SIS). The solution has helped the Maricopa Community Colleges...
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
Schools to save millions on IT
News Schools and colleges could save millions of pounds on their IT budgets by using a new procurement deal arranged by education IT agency Becta. Becta said the deal will reduce risk for schools and colleges, leaving them with more time and money to...
[August 10, 2006, 16:05]
Open source scores in higher education
News Only a quarter of Britain's colleges and universities have a policy on open source software (OSS), yet over three quarters have considered deploying it — largely due to cost considerations. Metcalfe also highlighted the finding that 68 percent of...
[August 7, 2006, 13:35]
Cambridge IT managers talk virtualisation, cloud
News Last week saw the second College IT Conference, an annual get-together of the IT teams that manage the residential colleges at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. We use the latest enterprise version of VMware, but many colleges would go for...
[December 3, 2008, 9:30]
Microsoft education deals under review
News A review has been launched to examine the value for money and risks of lock-in involved with the use of Microsoft software by schools and colleges. Becta, the agency which oversees use of IT in education, said it will review the 'value for money...
[January 9, 2006, 19:50]
School software licences under review
News The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) said on 3 July, 2006 that it has teamed up with management consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) to find out whether colleges and schools are getting the best "value" out of...
[July 4, 2006, 10:25]
Privacy group fights P2P crackdown
News The privacy advocacy group is sending letters to presidents of colleges across the country, asking them to think before they install monitoring tools on university networks. EPIC's effort comes in response to attempts by the entertainment industry...
[November 8, 2002, 7:48]
Developing Video Streaming Service Across Campuses: The VIVA Experience
White Papers Members include research universities, liberal arts colleges and 2-year colleges. In 2006 VIVA licensed the rights in perpetuity for close to 400,000 students and faculty at Virginia colleges and universities to use more than 500 hours of video...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Cambridge vs Oxford, Xen vs VMWare
Blog Note that these are the IT managers at the residential colleges, as opposed to the centralised IT managers for the universities' faculties. It was a pleasant day, although the semi-jocular rivalry between the universities - and even between the...
[December 2, 2008, 16:19]
