Do You Want to Know What Students in Further Education Really Need in Your Region?
A national study of FE students to enable a richer understanding of FE student characteristics and needs.
The study is based on over 35,000 responses from students in both FE colleges and sixth forms.
Four distinct segments were found during the research.
PACKAGE
- Full National Report: Understand the full picture
- Regional FE Segmentation Report: Understand your regional students
- Full data table outputs for regional vs. national results
PACKAGE
- FE Segmentation Diagnostics Tool: Assign student segments (access for 1 year)
INCLUSIVE PACKAGE
- Full National Report: Understand the full picture
- Regional FE Segmentation Report: Understand your regional students
- FE Segmentation Diagnostics Tool: Assign student segments (access for 1 year)
- Full data table outputs for regional vs. national results

- General attitude and perspectives on Higher Education (HE)
- Self efficacy / confidence, self motivation and sense of belonging
- Future aspirations and HE intentions
- Belief in the value of different progression pathways
- General interest in subject areas
- Current knowledge of educational pathways and the application process
- Perception of HE Pathways
- Career aspirations
- Careers guidance and identification of knowledge gaps
- Activity/intervention preferences, including identification of activities that have had a positive impact
- Identification of social and economic factors that may have an impact on their educational experience
- Subject areas studied and future subject interests
- National segmentation groupings and their key characteristics
- National segmentation distribution
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- Socio Economic status
- Key interest groups; adult learners, kinship students, disabilities/learning difficulties, parents, care experienced
- Visually engaging PPT report
- Executive Summary
Understand your regional students
- Full comparison / benchmarking of regional results vs. the national trends
- National and regional results statistically tested for significance
- General attitude and perspectives on Higher Education (HE)
- Self efficacy / confidence, self motivation and sense of belonging
- Future aspirations and HE intentions
- Perceived benefits of HE
- Transition and fit with HE
- Belief in the value of different progression pathways
- General interest in subject areas
- Current knowledge of educational pathways and the application process
- Family members/friends who have attended HE
- Regional segmentation distribution vs. national distribution
- Visually engaging PPT report
- Full data table outputs for regional vs. national results

Assign student segments (access for 1 year)
- Assign students with their FE segments
- Live results
- Flexible solution: segment allocation for large or small student groups
- Results automatically generated
- Segments accurately assigned to students on the ground
- Intuitive online platform
- Algorithm based on a national survey dataset of over 35,000 responses

An online survey link and QR code will be automatically created for each segment allocation survey. The link can be shared separately with students. Students also have the option to scan the unique QR code for the survey which will take them to the online survey.
We understand that students sometimes fatigue of survey requests, which is why there are only 8 questions to fill in!
Navigate to the home page for the FE Segmentation Diagnostic Tool and select ‘View Existing Surveys’. Results from all the segment allocation surveys you have created will show here.