JISC (formerly the Joint Information Systems Committee) is a United Kingdom non-departmental public body whose role is to support post-16 and higher education, and research, by providing leadership in the use of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in learning, teaching, research and administration. It is funded by all the UK post-16 and higher education funding councils.
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