Pathway students — ELICOS into vocational study into higher education — are among the most valuable enrollments an institution has: multiple programs, multiple years, one recruitment cost. Yet many pathway students cannot describe their own progression. They know the course they are in. The path through it, the entry conditions for the next stage, and the timeline connecting them live in an advisor's head.
Why progression stays foggy
Each program communicates about itself. The English center talks about English; the vocational program about its units; the degree about its requirements. The connective tissue — what score unlocks the next stage, when to apply, what happens if a stage takes longer — sits in policy documents and advising conversations the student may or may not have had. Foggy progression produces exactly what you would expect: students who drift away at the seams between programs, precisely where the institution's revenue model assumed they would continue.
What a pathway roadmap shows
The whole journey as one sequence: current stage, next stage, the conditions connecting them, and the decision points along the way. The Discovery Board lets students explore destination programs early — a student who can see the degree at the end of the English course has a reason to finish the English course.
Six steps inside SumHubs
You don't have to start from a blank page.
The pathway program roadmap is a free SumHubs template — mapped to your ELICOS, VET, and HE structure in an afternoon. Request a sample hub to see your pathways in it.