Netskills

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Netskills
Type	Public
Founded	1995
Headquarters	Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
Website	www.netskills.ac.uk

Netskills is a training and staff development service based at Newcastle University. It was established in 1995 as part of the JISC Electronic Libraries (e-Lib) programme.

The original project was called 'Network Skills for Users of the Electronic Library' and had the mission 'to help the UK higher education community make effective use of the Internet for teaching, research and administration'.

In 1998 Netskills became a JISC advisory service, although it is now primarily self-funded by income generated through activities including workshops, training materials and accreditation programmes.

Every university in the UK uses the service along with over 200 FE colleges and over 40 library authorities.