Retain more, raise results and ready learners for work.
Scalable coaching, smart diagnostics, and consistent progress.
The FE Challenge
Further Education faces a unique storm.
✅ Funding linked to retention
✅ Disengaged learners who disappear without warning
✅ Fragile motivation and limited accountability structures
✅ Rising pressure to deliver work-ready outcomes
Most platforms address one issue, but we’ve built a solution that solves them all.
Your Retention Engine
At Burton and South Derbyshire College, Performance Learning helped save over £60,000 in potential dropout-related losses.
Foresight
Foresight identifies when a learner is emotionally disconnected — before it shows up in attendance or performance.
SOAR
SOAR then builds a tailored path back to focus, motivation, and achievement.
Thrive
Helping learners get workplace-ready. From developing performance behaviours to identifying the sectors they want to apply for. They get our one-page CV and 30-page employment profile
A Coaching & Tutoring Accelerator
Programmes are only effective if learners are ready to engage. Our platform ensures they are – or helps you understand why they’re not. Through Risk-Based Coaching, our in-house team provides the right support, scaled by need:
| 🧠 Risk Level | 🎯 Scaled Approach |
|---|---|
| High Risk | Coaching, family engagement, motivational work — delivered by us. |
| Moderate Risk | Small group coaching or digital pathways — flexible by cohort or year group. |
| Low Risk | Platform-driven, self-led growth — managed by your staff, backed by SOAR. |
Whether you’re building a tutoring model or boosting in-house provision, we support the whole process — from mindset to metrics.
A Lifeline for Learner Motivation
In FE, disengagement isn’t always loud. It’s silent, internal, and often missed.
Foresight tracks the emotional, behavioural, and cognitive patterns that predict dropout risk, disengagement, or stagnation — and SOAR responds with personalised pathways that actually work.
A Work-Readiness Solution (Thrive+)
For many learners, this is the final step before work — and they need more than academic targets to thrive.
Thrive+ by Empower Me is our built-in, work-readiness module, giving learners access to:
Workplace behaviours and professionalism training
Entrepreneurial mindset development
Emotional intelligence in real-world environments
Work-ready CVs and Employment Profiles
The Research Behind the Results
✅ £60,000 in dropout savings
✅ Higher accountability, attendance, and motivation
✅ A scalable model of diagnostics + coaching + learning
✅ Backed by a peer-reviewed effect size of 1.95
✅ +2.2 average grade improvement in 2 terms
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“The two pronged benefit of Performance Learning will dramatically aid learner retention whilst also ensuring they continue with the right frame of mind to succeed”
Dawn Ward CBE Chief Executive and Principal, Burton & South Derbyshire College
Protect your funding, raise outcomes and prepare your learners for life.
Performance Learning is the only platform that diagnoses, coaches, and delivers – from enrolment to employability.