Data Governance in the Education Industry

Education institutions manage data across exam departments, teachers, admissions, financial aid, and analytics teams, each needing different access to the same student and course records. Astera's platform gives every department a shared, secure view of that data. This eBook walks through a real university use case showing how institutions can:

• Enrich data assets with intelligently generated titles, descriptions, and field-level metadata

• Maintain a business glossary so all users share consistent definitions for data-related terms

• Control access to sensitive records, letting asset owners approve who can view data and for how long

• Run data quality checks and view data health and statistics from a centralized admin view