Big data, big improvements

We have 110 high-achieving and compassionate leaders running study sessions with students, mainly in first-year subjects. We know peer-based work is much more effective as the students see the peer leaders as just another student.

When I heard the Master of Data Science and Innovation had a subject giving master’s students projects to look at real industry data, I instantly wanted to know more. I've been doing my job for a very long time now – almost 10 years – and we compile a lot of individual data sets each session and perform a lot of evaluation. We look at how often students come to classes, the types of students that attend, their opinion of U:PASS, that kind of thing. But, there was no linkage of that data.

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