Monday 24 September 2012

University of Oxford Information Security Policy has been published.

As information security must be implemented at local level, the Policy requires that each department and faculty implements a local information security policy, applicable to that department’s or faculty’s circumstances. An Information Security Toolkit, which accompanies the Policy, provides template policies which should be adopted, or adapted, as appropriate, to fit departments and faculties across the University.


Monday 17 September 2012

NUS Charter on Technology in Higher Education makes interesting reading:

  • Ninety-one per cent of students agreed that the internet has benefited their studies  
  • Forty-three per cent of prospective HE students preferred to use a combination of both printed and electronic resources for their studies In further education eighty- one per cent agreed that their ICT skills were self-taught  
  • Students feel that the type of technology used in higher education is increasingly outdated
  • Many students feel that they are offered insufficient training
  • Many felt that Virtual Learning Environments are only intermittently updated and do not contain useful and effective content 
Interestingly, I can find no mention of anything related to information security...