Platform & rollout
For Staff
For Students
Domestic commencing bachelor attrition dropped from 14.7 per cent to 12.2 per cent in a single cohort, the lowest in at least a decade. The explanations on offer are stories about who enrolled, not about better first years, and the difference decides what a transition team should do next February.
Blog post
A portal waits to be visited. First-year engagement needs something that comes to the student.
Most student surveys go unanswered for predictable reasons. A check-in that gets a response looks very different.
Guide
Census is treated as an administrative deadline. For retention, it is the single most important date in the first six weeks.
A short, practical checklist for carrying the energy of orientation into the weeks that actually decide whether students stay.
You can understand how a cohort is doing without building a watchlist of individual students. That difference is the whole point.
The window where most first-year attrition is decided is smaller, and earlier, than most retention strategies assume.
Research
Walk through First Six the way a commencing student would, then see what their team sees. No sales call, no pitch. Just the real thing.
A short conversation where we walk through First Six against your kind of cohort. Bring your student experience team if it helps.
