Our mission
To develop solutions to help every student realise their full potential and empower their institutions to deliver great individualised learning.
To develop solutions to help every student realise their full potential and empower their institutions to deliver great individualised learning.
Responding to the changing nature of education
Solutionpath was founded in 2013 in response to the changing landscape of UK education. Digitalisation, generation z and a more diverse student population were not only shifting the nature of learning delivery but also the potential for progression and attainment.
Our Why
Outcomes of The HERE (Higher Education: Retention & Engagement) project, 2008 – 2011 highlighted concerns in how student demographics were not only changing but influencing progression. Raising the importance of supporting students in the transition to becoming effective learners and showing why encouraging students to engage and creating a sense of belonging really matter.
This would fuel our mission to develop products to help every student to realise their full potential and inform their institutions in how to deliver great individualised learning that we still stand by today.
Codifying Engagement
In 2014 a co-curated innovation project with Nottingham Trent University was formed. Recognising that the common element to ensure successful integration into university life was ‘engagement’ we set off on a journey to develop technology that would codify engagement proxies by turning educationally purposeful events into an easy to interpret, non-bias engagement score.
Innovation
Our product StREAM was successfully tested and piloted and consistently proved its predictive capability in not only identifying outliers but also those at risk of early withdrawal because of personal or wellbeing reasons. The initiative won a Times Higher Education (THE) award and was the first of its kind in the UK.
Making an Impact
Fast forward and today we work with 20 UK higher education institutions and support several strategic agendas from institutional excellence, digital transformation, progression, attainment and wellbeing. We continue to work in collaboration with the education community to meet the dynamic needs of today and to prepare for the future, ensuring students and staff are empowered to be better and do better.
A time of innovation and growth
In September 2022 Solutionpath joined the Kortext Group. Kortext is the world-renowned eBook and student experience expert, leading the way for digitally enhanced teaching and learning in the global education community.
With a joint aim to support institutions in their mission to boost student engagement, drive outcomes, and educate the next generation of difference makers, we will offer cutting-edge content discovery, market-leading student engagement and learner analytics, and streamlined library workflow solutions.
Together, we will invest in the future of learning through research, innovation and development, powered by data and AI.
Collaboration with our community is central to our ethos. We believe it’s important to continuously collaborate with educators and thought leaders who share the same goals as us – to support universities in the personalisation of the learning journey and to ensure an equality of opportunity for all. By doing that we ensure a highly effective and relevant product that continuously develops with the changing nature of education.
We want to ensure all those who want to learn and progress in life are given the best chance to do so through inclusivity, engagement and support. We know from empirical evidence that engagement is the best predictor of student success and it is something that the tutor and tutee can directly impact. That’s why we’ve created the StREAM Engagement Score as a common metric, a measure that is both easy to understand, is non-biased and a prompt to start a meaningful conversation.
Using data to drive actions and make decisions is core to what we do. We do this through the collation, transformation and sharing of educational data and insight. We do this carefully and responsibly, ensuring that all the data we collate is for the good of the education experience and given back to the community that contributed to it. We believe that the transparency of data and insight can drive the collective effort in the most meaningful way.
