The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that, after 35 years of working in post-16 education and research, Executive Secretary Dr. Malcolm Read will retire in January 2012. Upon retiring, he will be following his passion for glaciology and will be travelling around Antarctica for two months. Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) is now looking to recruit an interim CEO for a fixed term for JISC's transition period.
Dr. Read joined JISC in 1993 and has been central to championing digital technologies for education and research. His achievements include setting up the UK's academic computer network JANET (UK) and being a passionate advocate of making publicly funded research widely available for everyone to benefit.
Dr. Read has reportedly been central to setting up partnerships with the Knowledge Exchange, the British Library and the Higher Education Academy to create knowledge sharing as well as publishing papers and contributing to books. His most recent publication was a chapter in The Tower and Cloud, an e-book on the future of technology for education.
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