Further Education Colleges

Supporting increased engagement with your learners at all stages of their learning journey.

We increase engagement throughout the learner journey

We work with FE colleges and vocational institutions to increase engagement with learners during admissions, on-course, and whilst tracking destinations.

We reduce the need for admissions teams and marketing teams to handle large amounts of repetitive queries, by increasing their productivity and replacing outdated methods of communication.

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Benefits of our offering

Improve productivity

We use WhatsApp and SMS to improve application to enrolment conversion rates, and improve destinations data.

Reduce Work

Our digital assistant manages 90% of queries for your engagement or data insights teams.

Better outcomes

We help people find the right education provider or career by reducing the communication barriers involved in the process.

Customer Stories

The RNN Group Case Study

Purlos and The RNN Group join forces to deliver a winning combination of human interaction, WhatsApp engagement and student insights to help the group exceed its student recruitment goals.

Shattering Enrolment Records: Shrewsbury College Group & Purlos combine to spark action through conversation The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it unprecedented communications challenges for colleges across the country. At Shrewsbury College, it soon became clear...

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority Case Study

Purlos partners with the CPCA to improve their destinations data and insights. The CPCA were able to track the individual progress of each college that is funded by the Adult Education Budget showing that between 89% – 94% of students across their four colleges achieved positive destinations.

What our customers say

“The Purlos platform is one that the students use regularly, allow the college to communicate effectively with our applicants The platform has meant that more applicant have decided to enroll with us.”

Mike Needham
Director of Admissions, Communications & Marketing, Shrewsbury College

“Purlos has been amazing… it has been extremely useful to highlight which students could drop-out! Our KPI for early drop-out (those who started but then withdrew) has reduced from 6.8% to 4.3%.”

Dario Stevens
Vice Principal, NESCOT

“Purlos has been a great support, and helped us collect better destinations insight for improved curriculum design. We achieved 83% known destinations”

Jon Domaille
Assistant Principal of the Learner Journey, Bath College