Case Study
University Challenge: Student Number Planning
? Predicting the future is something we all wish we could do. But to get a small glimpse of tomorrow, you could do worse than taking a quick look around the foyer of any university campus. There you’ll see the future leaders of industry and the guardians of tomorrow’s knowledge. But at these seats of learning, it’s not just the students who seek to continually expand their knowledge. The universities and colleges themselves are looking to learn more too, to allow them to predict the future. The University of Liverpool has been working with business analytics specialist Barrachd to develop a new, cutting-edge student number planning tool that will do just that – allowing university departments to accurately forecast staff numbers and expenditure. The solution created by