I missed these when they were published in September - the release of the Harnessing Technology Surveys for Adult and Community Learning (ACL) and Offender Learning (OL) provides data and findings from research conducted on behalf of Becta by NIACE in November and December 2009.

Read the full article and access the downloads at http://research.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=rh&catcode=_re_rp_be_03&rid=18006.

– demand, perceptions and training needs

This publication is the end product from HEFCE who commissioned the National Union of Students to undertake research into the demand, perceptions and training needs of students in both further and higher education.

"Section 184. Lecturers and staff have widely varying levels of ICT competence.

- One common area of concern for both those who took part in the survey and the discussions was the varying levels of ICT competence on the...

"Driving UK Research - Is copyright a help or a hindrance - A perspective from the research community" has been published by the British Library.

The document includes a call for...

"an extension to fair dealing provisions under UK copyright law to bring them into line with fair use doctrine in the US."

The document, which will be of interest to all those working in FE and HE, can be accessed in pdf format on the British Library website at - http://www.bl.uk/ip/pdf/dri...