The latest news from StREAM
Supporting higher education to drive student success with student engagement analytics.
2025: A year of unpredictability and hardship – or an opportunity for innovation, curiosity and change?
StREAM’s Principal Advisor Rachel Maxwell caught up with Janice Kay, CBE to discuss what’s on the horizon for higher education in 2025.
Supporting UK Higher Education to improve student continuation and financial sustainability
We’re offering universities a bespoke Student Risk Report, offering insights on student engagement and students who are currently at risk of early withdrawal as determined by the StREAM algorithm.
Engagement and wellbeing analytics: the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
In light of the mental health crisis, Rachel Maxwell explores how effective, holistic student support requires the use of analytics based on both engagement and wellbeing to provide frontline staff with a richer picture of their students.
An effective personal academic tutor system may require specialist academic support
Rachel Maxwell and Steve Briggs put the case for involving specialist staff in personal academic tutoring systems
Exciting updates about the Kortext brand
Breaking the cycle of despair through tracking student engagement
Rachel Maxwell shares insight from University of Keele’s use of engagement analytics to improve student retention in the foundation year
Supporting success in the TEF with engagement analytics
Janice Kay, Special Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter and to Kortext, discusses the importance of using digital platforms and engagement data to enhance educational gain and student outcomes.
What academics want from academic support
Personal tutoring is an aspect of academic practice. Debbie McVitty and Rachel Maxwell asked academics how they view it.
How universities are thinking about academic support
Leaders from six institutions working to transform their academic support provision reflect on what they are trying to achieve.
Once you can describe an academic support system, you can begin to evaluate it
It is tricky to infer direct causation from academic support to student success, but it can be done. Debbie McVitty and Rachel Maxwell called in the experts.
Harnessing the power of data to drive student success
Universities can use data insights from end-to-end digital platforms to drive student learning engagement and improve academic outcomes.
Student communication: a compassionate approach
Compassionate student communication that ensures engagement is personal and unique to each student could enhance the university experience.