Scientia's timetabling, workload management, and curriculum development solutions increase academic staff satisfaction and workload balance while improving business efficiency and revenue.
Improve Staff Satisfaction
Because most student allocations to activities are made automatically during planning and timetabling,
Academic Managers have more time to spend with those students that need extra advice and guidance.
When building the timetable, Academic Managers can consider staff preferences for when they want to teach. Collecting staff preferences can
be web based, leading to more efficient use of staff time, greater data accuracy, and data quality.
Syllabus Plus maintains an accurate timetable for each member of staff and this is available from a browser. Any timetable changes
that occur during the year can automatically update their personal calendar, reducing administration throughout the year.
Workload Balance
The work that each member of staff has to undertake each week in addition to teaching can be planned and used to manage
the workload of that person throughout the year. Staff can be allocated to teaching activities in a way that takes into
account many factors, including career development, the need to protect priority projects, or just to share work evenly.
Time can be set aside at different times through the year for research projects.
Planning the complete workload for each member of staff helps an institution to control its costs, ensure that staff employment contracts
are not exceeded, and that staff do not become stressed in the workplace.
Curriculum Development
New curricula, new programmes of study, new modules can be modelled and their cost effectiveness assessed within a strategic planning framework.
Business Development
Increase your income; lower your costs; more revenue. That's what Scientia's solutions can help you achieve.
For example, the number of students enrolled at your institution can increase, generating additional revenues, without a corresponding
increase in costs. A number of case studies have shown the significant gains that can be obtained. The University of Newcastle in Australia
grew from 13,000 students in 2000 to 18,000 in 2006 while reducing the centrally allocated teaching space from 66 to 58 rooms during the same period. A large university in the United Kingdom found that they increased their student population by 8% without increasing their space overhead.
