An independent study to investigate the value St Francis Xavier 6th Form College gets from its Jisc membership.

1. Jisc’s value to FE:
St Francis Xavier
6th Form College

2. St Francis Xavier 6th Form
College (SFX) in south London
offers A Levels and a range of
vocational qualifications.
It took part in an independent study to investigate the
value it gets from its Jisc membership.
This is what it discovered.
St Francis Xavier
6th Form College
2 Jisc’s value to FE: St Francis Xavier 6th Form College (SFX)

3. SFX’s Jisc subscription
for 2020/21 is £8,688
That subscription alone saves the
college £156,000 of costs each year
– an ROI of 756%.
Jisc services save 1.3 FTE worth of
staff effort per year – that’s £82,000
of staff costs.
Here’s how
3 Jisc’s value to FE: St Francis Xavier 6th Form College (SFX)

4. Cyber security – headline savings
SFX saves more than £100,000 a year by using
Jisc’s cyber security support.
£49,505
In cost saving
£65,000
Cost avoidance
1 FTE
without Jisc, SFX would need one
whole extra cyber-skilled full-time
member of staff.
4 Jisc’s value to FE: St Francis Xavier 6th Form College (SFX)

5. Jisc is a critical
friend and
honest broker.
5 Jisc’s value to FE: St Francis Xavier 6th Form College (SFX)

6. Cyber security – context
A significant cyber security-based outage would seriously
impact SFX’s support services (from HR to admissions) and
cause reputation damage.
With a greater
reliance on digital
access to teaching
and learning
resources,
unplanned
downtime cannot
be managed.
Teaching
A four-hour outage
would cause 240
hours of teaching
to be lost
Enrolment
An outage during
application and
enrolment could
cause 25
students to be
lost, along with
£137,500 pa
income
Impact
A five-minute
attack on SFX
(based on its
2017/18 attacks)
cost £16,590
6 Jisc’s value to FE: St Francis Xavier 6th Form College (SFX)

7. Connectivity - savings
SFX enjoys other connectivity-related savings
the Janet Network
£2,763
savings plus £6,500 (0.2FTE)
Managed router service
£3,000 (15 days) Jisc’s robust
infrastructure
is critical.
7 Jisc’s value to FE: St Francis Xavier 6th Form College (SFX)

8. Jisc is there to
pre-empt (cyber
security) issues
8 Jisc’s value to FE: St Francis Xavier 6th Form College (SFX)

9. Connectivity and cyber security - benefits
For SFX, the Janet network and Jisc cyber security are key components
in protecting the college’s assets. It is designed for the sector –
information, advice and guidance is geared towards FE vulnerabilities
and threats.
• SFX used Jisc for its Cyber Essentials assessment based on Jisc’s education experience.
• SFX appreciates Jisc’s managed router service as it is specialist equipment requiring specialist skills,
including upgrades, maintenance and trouble shooting.
9 Jisc’s value to FE: St Francis Xavier 6th Form College (SFX)

10. Learning resources – headline savings
Jisc’s learning resources save SFX £27,901.
How?
Annual cost saving
Licensing £18,453
Jisc e-books £9,073
JUSP software £375
(saving 1.5 days of
reporting related effort)
Totals £137,030
10 Jisc’s value to FE: St Francis Xavier 6th Form College (SFX)

11. Trust and identity – headline savings
Annual effort / cost avoided
Federated access:
technology
310 hours/
£5,373
Certificate service £170
Totals
0.1 FTE /
£5,543
11 Jisc’s value to FE: St Francis Xavier 6th Form College (SFX)

12. Jisc’s value
For SFX, Jisc is not simply a supplier – it is a trusted partner:
“Jisc’s education focus
matters as it provides us
with holistic support. ”
"Digital resources reliance is
increasing and therefore
network stability and ease of
access to those resources
are key.”
“Jisc enables us to
progress.”
12 Jisc’s value to FE: St Francis Xavier 6th Form College (SFX)

13. Without Jisc…
“The sector would lose knowledge and
experience which is not held
elsewhere.”
“We would suffer as we’re reliant on
Jisc in making profit.”
“Without Jisc the markets, that their
products align with, would become
fragmented resulting in reduced
resilience and consistency. This
matters as there is so much choice
and comparison would therefore
become very difficult.”
13 Jisc’s value to FE: St Francis Xavier 6th Form College (SFX)

14. SFX worked with independent consultant
Richard Hadfield to look at its portfolio of
Jisc services and analyse the cost savings,
costs avoided and the benefits to learners,
staff and the college as a whole.
SFX’s senior managers, teachers, librarians, learning resource managers, IT and
finance staff took part in workshops and post-workshop meetings to share their views.
Together they agreed the findings.
14 Jisc’s value to FE: St Francis Xavier 6th Form College (SFX)