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New FE Student Segmentation Case Study!

Daniel Todd 10 Apr 2025

What do a robotic cow milking machine, FE students and an algorithmic tool have in common? 🤔 actually, quite a lot 👏🏾😅….

I am really excited to share a brand-new case study, filmed with the brilliant teams at Inspiring Choices and Askham Bryan College.

Hear how the teams at Inspiring Choices and Askham Bryan College are using our segmentation tool to personalise their approach and deliver real impact to the students they work with.

It shows how they worked in partnership to use data from 35,000 students to predict current student need at the college, and how our ‘segmentation tool’ was used to do it.

✅ Built on the voices of over 35,000 students
✅ Designed to support smarter, more strategic outreach
✅ Promotes stronger student engagement and better outcomes

“The FE segmentation tool is a way of putting students in post-16 education into four categories…helping us to work out how we can support them”
Louisa Dobson, Inspiring Choices

You can find out more about our segmentation tool and download the free Executive Summary report from the full national study, on our website here

Full Case Study 👇

We had such a brilliant day filming this case study – For a longer (but interestingly gripping 🤣) cut of how the day went, watch this ‘behind the scenes’ footage of the day on our YouTube or here 👇

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