The number of young people suffering from mental stress is increasing. Symptoms related to this mental stress is often unrecognised until the situation, in some form, boils over. For parents this often comes as a surprise because they are looking at an example of one, and have no way to discern it. The educational system is, however, perfectly placed to compare multiple data points, to distinguish between what is normal for a person and what would indicate a potential problem in the making.

Margus’ talk will focus on two cases in vocational education that Brand Manual has worked with over the past few years, the case for learning analytics and what a comprehensive data-driven analytics program could potentially achieve, for the benefit of students, parents, schools and the state.