CareerChatUK partner with Sparsholt College on innovative Student Progression Guide
CareerChat UK is proud to partner with Sparsholt College Group in Hampshire on an innovative project transforming student success. Following a feasibility study and extensive consultations with students and staff on an AI-powered FE student Future Track Progression Plan – AI Companion, the team has created a personalised AI companion that helps students explore course options and career pathways at their own pace – inspiring confidence, motivation, and achievement throughout their studies.
AI and Careers Chatbot Technology at the Heart of Student Support
At the core of this new FE Future Track Student Progression Guide is cutting-edge AI technology, including Large Language Models (LLMs), integrated with student self-reporting data, real-time Labour Market Intelligence (LMI), and course-specific information. This powerful combination creates a dynamic, student-focused AI-powered Student Progression Plan that makes studying more meaningful, career progression easier, more relevant, and motivating for learners.
Students can explore potential pathways at their own pace, access actionable insights about careers and training opportunities, and make informed decisions about their education and future. CiCi the curated careers chatbot is also embedded in this new resource.
How Sparsholt College Group Students Benefit
By harnessing the power of AI to reflect on individual progress being made, students gain access to:
- Personalised recommendations based on interests, skills, and career goals
- Ensures that students not only understand the pathways available to them but are also motivated and empowered to take confident next steps in their careers.
- Course progression pathways made explicit to the student to aid future planning
- 24/7 support through an intuitive chatbot, providing personalised trustworthy information and advice anytime, anywhere
- Integration with Careers Advisers, allowing students to book an appointment directly with the Careers Teams and conversations with the AI companion (with the students’ permission) can be shared with a human adviser in advance to provide more tailored career guidance.
- Real-time Labour Market Intelligence, offering up-to-date information about local, regional and national career development opportunities.
Supporting Personal Tutors and Careers Advisers at Sparsholt College Group
The project also benefits Sparsholt College’s Personal Tutors and Careers Advisers by reducing the time spent on routine queries and administrative tasks. With the AI Companion providing course and personalised career pathway insights, staff can focus on high-value interactions, offering more meaningful, human-centred career guidance.
By combining AI technology with the expertise of careers advisers in Sparsholt College Group, every student can have easy access to personalised course and progression pathways – to be rolled out to more learners at scale and quality-assured. This unique AI Companion combining student progression and careers exploration via CiCi fully embedded, helps students explore opportunities safely and confidently, complementing traditional careers guidance.
About Sparsholt College Group
Sparsholt College Group: SSG includes Sparsholt College, University Centre Sparsholt, and Andover College. Sparsholt College Group is committed to preparing students for meaningful careers in a wide variety of sectors.
Sparsholt Campus is home to Sparsholt College and University Centre Sparsholt and is located near Winchester, with an additional campus in Andover. The college offers a wide range of courses specialising in land-based subjects including: Agriculture and Horticulture, Engineering and Animal Management, Equine Studies and Forestry, Game and Wildlife Management
- Sport and Outdoor Education
Andover College is a general FE college offering a wide range of skills-based vocational courses, T levels and A levels, with more than 3,000 full-time and many part-time students, including around 400 at HE level.
Why AI Curated Chatbots Are the Future
This partnership highlights the potential of AI-powered curated chatbots that can work separately or together to enhance student outcomes while supporting educators. By combining personalised course and careers information and advice backed up by human expertise from professionally trained careers advisers, Sparsholt College Group and CareerChat UK are setting a new benchmark for student progression planning, increased motivation and confidence in finding the most suitable pathway going forward.
Students can explore courses, pathways, make informed decisions, and take control of their learning and work journey, while personal tutors and careers advisers can focus on meaningful in-depth guidance and mentoring.
Staff can be more confident in reducing student drop-out rates through the empowering use of a curated chatbot approach.
Take the Next Step
Discover and see how a personalised FE Progression Guide using AI-powered chatbot technology can empower learners, save time for personal tutors and careers advisers, and enhance student outcomes.
Contact us to find out more: email: [email protected]
Book a demo today of CiCi the curated careers chatbot. This unique blend of two chatbots working together to maximise student progression and careers exploration is groundbreaking!
