Higher Education

Learner Analytics (SIERA Hub)

Higher Education is increasingly under pressure to improve the success of their students.

The SIERA (Student Insight Engagement Retention Analytics) Hub can help students to achieve an academic edge, improve student retention, gain higher grades, and ultimately become an employer’s top choice, with data analytics and predictive analytics for student retention,

Imagine if you could proactively identify students needing additional support and provide them with the resources necessary to improve performance. The SIERA Hub enables university personnel to gain better insight around student engagement, compare students against their cohorts and raise interventions. The SIERA HUB really is a one-stop-shop for all your learner analytical needs.

Simpson Associates is a full-service data analytics consultancy. We have worked with several Higher Education Institutions, implementing our head start application, SIERA Hub.

Student Analytics

Institutions are beginning to adopt predictive analytics to manage finances, inventory, operations, assets, and resources.

The next great wave for predictive analytics adoption in higher education is focusing on institutional performance outcomes and individualised student success in higher education – Measuring student success to effectively give you a 360 view of your students.

Our expert team can work collaboratively with your institution, to understand your requirements and deliver a data analytics solution to suit your needs.

Student Number Planning

As student applications and tuition fees rise and graduate jobs diminish, student planning is a critical function which needs to be responsive, flexible, and precise.

Simpson Associates offer Universities a flexible option for the management and future planning of student intake and educational lifecycles, both in course structure and income terms. These solutions are multi-dimensional, dynamic, driver-based models which put control and responsiveness in the hands of the University’s planning teams, schools, and faculty stakeholders, improving response times and organisational efficiency.

In regulatory terms, our student planning solution enables organisations to respond quickly to annual or ad-hoc changes required by organisations such as the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), or the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).

As regulatory planning or investment assumptions change, whether at a general level, school, or even course level, this can be instantly reflected across the entire student model. Automatic feeds into revised targets and plans, deliver large savings in time and resources across finance, planning and the affected faculties.

Our team of experts can get your institution set up with a Student Number Planning Solution which can predict student headcount. This enables your Institution to report and plan for the fees generated.

Simpson Associates can work collaboratively with your institution, to understand your requirements and deliver a solution to suit your needs.

NSS and League Table Reporting

Many institutions we work with have invested significantly in initiatives to improve student engagement and success. However, personalising, coordinating, and measuring this support in real time is still a huge challenge.

Simpson Associates has worked with several institutions to provide a solution that combines data access, student engagement, and predicted outcomes to identify trend and risk factors that could affect your retention and graduation rates.

Our expert data analytics team can work collaboratively with your university to deliver an NSS and League Table reporting solution to meet your needs.

Data Warehousing

Fee Forecasting

Understanding financial planning including net tuition revenues is the key to the success of any institution.

Simpson Associates has years of experience in helping institutions understand, design, and build effective financial budgeting, forecasting, and strategic plans to help meet their objectives of forecasting Student Fees.

Our expert team can work collaboratively with your institution, using technologies such as Microsoft, IBM to deliver a Fee Forecasting Solution that suits your Institution’s needs.