Student attendance and retention system aims for top marks

Business analytics from Barrachd point toward a predictive and pro-active approach to helping students complete their coursesEdinburgh - 18 October, 2011 - Barrachd, a preeminent business analytics firm that helps its customers improve their operations through identifying hidden patterns in their business data, is helping Telford College in Edinburgh reduce its student drop-out rates.By analysing each aspect of a student's background (age, qualifications, the number of associations they have joined, how far they have to travel to college) and assessing attendance rates, the system built by Barrachd will allow Telford College to predict which

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