JANET News

The use of videoconferencing by merged Coleg Llandrillo Cymru and Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor has enabled savings of hundreds of man hours and thousands of pounds of travel costs, and has enabled a small staff of Welsh speakers to teach the language across all of Wales.

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Of course, if this could be done 100% accurately then most of us would now be occupied with our favourite pastime 365 days a year! Just because this is challenging, however, it is no excuse for not trying.

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While many of us think we are a superperson, I hate to tell you the species doesn’t exist. Successful leadership is about drawing out the best from all the team. However, this doesn’t happen by magic.

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Occasionally I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder whether the aggressive bottom line driven attitudes I had with some of my customers in the international TV business brought in any more revenue than a more collegiate approach might have achieved.

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Many operational people instinctively prefer to leave the numbers to the bean counters, particularly in a sector which has been substantially grant funded and based on annual cash flow profiles.

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This sounds obvious but how many of us, when asked what we do, tell them exactly that: what we do? What the enquirer really wants to know is what we contribute.

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As the budget reductions hit us we will all be faced with tasks which initially seem to us impossible.

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Technoscepticism for a group of academics regarding videoconferencing changed to enthusiasm and a desire for more, with its recent successful use in a Skillset-funded training course.

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The Access Grid Support Centre launched the AGSC Roadshow in January 2011 to introduce staff at universities across the UK, whatever their role, to their local AG nodes

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Highlighting its ability to eliminate distance barriers, videoconferencing recently took a group of UK school children all the way to Borneo to meet an expedition team from the Natural History Museum hunting for fossil corals.

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