Our priorities for Wales 2025-26

We aim to provide strategic leadership and advocacy, foster tertiary collaboration, strengthen stakeholder relationships across Welsh education, optimise infrastructure, address sector pressures and drive inclusive, bilingual delivery through digital innovation.

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Priority one: deliver strategic leadership and advocacy

What good looks like:

  • Deepen our role as a trusted partner and sector advocate with Medr through transparent member engagement, ensuring Jisc’s influence directly shapes Wales’ national digital priorities
  • Provide Medr with a robust 2025/26 evidence base, using funded project outcomes to demonstrate success, scalability and next steps, informing policy and investment
  • Implement a Wales public affairs plan engaging political parties ahead of the Senedd elections, ensuring DDaT priorities are understood and embedded in future commitments

Priority two: lead on tertiary collaboration and shared services

What good looks like:

  • Provide balanced representation across further education, higher education, work-based learning and adult community learning, ensuring each part of the system is heard and contributes to shared digital priorities
  • Act as a convener for sector groups such as WHELF (Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum), FE LRC, HEWIT (Higher Education Wales Information Technology) and ITSysman, to enable joint problem-solving and coordinated delivery on cross-sector challenges
  • Use member insights to work with Medr and others to identify and promote shared services as viable policy and investment priorities in Wales, supporting efficiency and scalability

Priority three: deepen strategic stakeholder relationships across the Welsh education ecosystem

What good looks like:

  • Build purposeful relationships with bodies such as Qualifications Wales, Awarding Bodies, Estyn, Regional Skills Partnerships and Welsh Government organisations to align digital priorities with inspection, curriculum reform, workforce planning and professional learning
  • Provide critical friend support on AI to accelerate safe and effective adoption across the sector, positioning Jisc as the go-to advisor for AI in education
  • Offer Medr and other stakeholders' access to Jisc webinars and communities to strengthen understanding of the wider tertiary landscape, supporting better informed policy and funding decisions

Priority four: optimise infrastructure and tackle sector pressures

What good looks like:

  • Explore collaborative models for infrastructure and cyber services, enabling shared investment in secure, cost-effective platforms for the tertiary sector
  • Address unsustainable digital cost pressures, such as licensing inflation, by brokering collective negotiations and policy discussions to protect member budgets
  • Champion inclusive digital design and access so that infrastructure and security solutions are equitable, learner-ready and meet the needs of diverse contexts

Priority five: enable inclusive and bilingual delivery through digital innovation

  • Work with Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol to co-develop and scale bilingual digital solutions, ensuring accessibility and relevance for all parts of the tertiary sector
  • Test and apply AI capabilities for bilingual learning to improve translation, accessibility and inclusive pedagogy, supporting sector-wide language goals
  • Deliver on Jisc’s commitment to the Welsh Language Standards, Cymraeg 2050, widening participation and digital inclusion to broaden educational access