Tag: learning analytics

Students on campus sit and talk while, beside them, a large dashboard of widening participation data highlights targets and inequalities.

From Access to Belonging: Rethinking Widening Participation Metrics in UK Higher Education

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Widening participation policy is often judged through dashboards of access, continuation and attainment. Yet focusing on who gets in – and who stays – can mask how universities continue to privilege particular histories, dispositions and futures. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, capital and institutional habitus, this article argues that belonging should sit at the centre of how we interpret student data, and explores what a more “belonging-sensitive” approach to WP metrics might look like in UK higher education.

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University data dashboard flowing into a funnel with colourful people icons dropping out at different points.

Are Your Student Recruitment Dashboards Misleading You? Funnels, Conversion, and Inequality in HE

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Student recruitment dashboards promise a single version of the truth about who will enrol. This article shows how small choices about funnels, conversion and melt can create competing “truths”, quietly shape who gets attention, and reproduce inequality in HE – and suggests practical ways to use dashboards, AI and KPIs more reflexively.

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