HEAnet has recently welcomed two new clients:

• County Offaly VEC: http://www.offalyvec.com/
• National Centre for Technology in Education: http://www.ncte.ie/

DCENR have released a post-budget press release confirming the extension of the Schools 100 Mbit/s Programme to all post-primary schools across Ireland. The programme will reach all post-primary schools over the period 2012-2014. http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Press+Releases/Minister+Rabbitte+provides+detail+of+DCENR+2012+budget.htm

The live streams will be available in Windows Media and Flash video formats from our website http://www.heanet.ie/live or from the Oireachtas website http://www.oir.ie You can also view the live streams from your iPhone http://iphone.heanet.ie

An excerpt from Lord David Puttnam's keynote address delivered at our HEAnet National Conference 2011 earlier this month has been published in the Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/education/2011/1129/1224308275895.html

Irish Chamber Orchestra and Irish Arts set to reach new global audience. The Irish Chamber Orchestra’s Beethoven 7 concert, in front of 500 people at the University Concert Hall in Limerick on Thursday 20th October, is set to reach a global audience of more than 35 countries in HD via the web.

As part of our Data Storage initiatives for the HE&R community, HEAnet, with working input from our clients, has recently established two Storage Framework agreements which are available for use by all our member institutions.

Moving from Second to Third Level Education in Ireland For more details and the webcast check out: http://www.transition.ie/index.htm

A Draft programme for HEAnet's National Conference 2011: "Service Innovation and Collaboration for Challenging Times" is now available

Read about the latest updates on HEAnet Shared Services and key project developments within our higher education and research community

HEAnet's new Student Internet Deal with O2 offers low cost Internet access to students and staff at HEAnet client institutions.