Programme intelligence
Every course in your catalogue, mapped against the market it feeds.
Programmes decomposed to their courses, courses mapped to governed skills and exit roles, and a readiness state on every row, so a programme we cannot yet speak to is visibly marked as one.
A programme we cannot yet score is marked, never estimated
01The columns a dean reads
One row per programme, and seven columns that have to agree.
A coverage percentage alone is disputable. Each column can be opened and checked on its own.
| Column | What it means | Why it is there |
|---|---|---|
| Degree | Bachelor, Master, PhD. | Demand for an exit role differs sharply by level |
| Courses | How many courses the programme decomposes into. | A programme mapped from 3 courses is not comparable to one mapped from 30 |
| Curriculum skills | Distinct skills extracted from those courses. | The raw material of the coverage figure |
| Linkage | How many of those skills resolved to the governed taxonomy. | Low linkage means the coverage number is weak, and it says so |
| Coverage | Share of in-scope market demand the programme evidences. | The headline, and the most argued-with number on the page |
| Skill families | Which demand families the programme actually serves. | Shows what a programme is, not just how much it covers |
| Readiness | Complete · needs curriculum mapping · no course mapped. | The honesty control - see below |
02When we say we cannot tell you
Three states, and two of them are admissions.
A coverage figure built on two mapped courses is not a small number. It is a wrong one.
Complete The figure is real
Courses mapped, skills linked to the governed taxonomy
The coverage figure rests on course-level content, so it can be defended line by line.
Needs curriculum mapping We hold it, we cannot yet score it
Programme in the catalogue, course detail missing
The programme is listed but the course content behind it has not reached the platform, so no coverage figure is produced.
No course mapped Nothing to report
No course-level content received
It shows as empty rather than as zero. An empty cell is a to-do; a zero is a claim.
The screen opens with the weakest programmes, not the strongest - the ones with no mapped courses, no linked skills or no matched roles. That list is the first deliverable of an engagement, because it tells you what the analysis cannot yet see about your own institution.
03How a gap becomes a decision
From a percentage to a course a faculty member owns.
Decompose
The programme is broken into its courses, and each course into the skills it actually teaches - from the catalogue, not from the prospectus.
Link
Each course skill is proposed against the governed taxonomy. A reviewer approves, edits or rejects; low-confidence links wait for a person.
Score
In-scope market demand for the programme's exit roles is compared against what the linked courses evidence.
Rank
Gaps are ordered by demand weight, so the biggest exposure surfaces before the easiest fix.
Recommend
A written recommendation per programme, attributable and arguable, for faculty review - never an applied change.
04Settled by evidence, not argument
Four questions a curriculum committee currently settles by argument.
- 01
Which programme is most exposed?
Ranked by the demand-weighted size of the gap in your own market scope, not by enrolment.
- 02
Which course should carry the fix?
The gap points at courses, with the ones already part-covering the skill surfaced first.
- 03
Are two programmes doing the same job?
Course-level skill overlap and shared exit archetypes make duplication visible without an audit.
- 04
What can we not yet see?
The readiness column, read as a to-do list, rather than as a silent gap in the numbers.
Explore Nexus
Five capabilities, one evidence base.
Each one is a different question about the same corpus. They share a vocabulary, so a finding in one holds up inside another.
05Before you ask
What programme leads ask first.
What is a "readiness state"?
A per-programme verdict on how much of it we can actually speak to. Complete means the programme's courses are mapped and the coverage figure is real. Needs curriculum mapping means we hold the programme but not enough course detail to make a claim. No course mapped means exactly that. The states exist so a thin programme is visibly thin rather than quietly averaged into a portfolio number.
Why map courses rather than programmes?
Because a programme-level gap is not actionable. Telling a dean that their MBA under-covers stakeholder management starts an argument; showing which four courses could carry it, and which one already half does, starts a redesign. UOWD's engagement went to 521 courses across 40 programmes for this reason.
Where does the demand side come from?
The live posting corpus, scoped to the market you actually place into - the scope is a setting on the screen, not a global average. A Dubai campus is read against GCC demand. Coverage is then the overlap between what the market asks for in that scope and what your courses evidence, in one governed vocabulary.
Does the system rewrite our curriculum?
No. It produces written recommendations per programme and a ranked gap list. Every one is a flag for faculty review. There is no path by which an analysis edits a syllabus, and the page states the basis for every number it shows so a programme lead can argue with it.
What if we disagree with a skill link?
Reject it. Course skills are linked to the governed taxonomy as proposals - a reviewer approves, edits or rejects each one, and low-confidence links are marked as needing a manual decision rather than being applied. The mapping is a draft until a person signs it.
Bring one programme. We will map it against your market.
Forty-five minutes, one catalogue, live demand behind it.
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