Using hybrid-AI software to scale delivery and heighten effectiveness of Meee’s FUEL student self-help mental health training programmes

MEEE的快速启动项目提案将提供行业领先的技术解决方案，帮助克服继续深造和高等教育机构越来越多的人面临的心理健康挑战。超过20%的大学生被诊断出心理健康，学生体内的一些群体面临更大的风险。非双元制学生遭遇心理健康问题的可能性是双元制学生的四倍。在2019-2020年进入英国大学的第一个学位的学生中，5.3%的人在一年后不再接受高等教育。一些大学的辍学率高达32.3%。这是学生由于缺乏适当的支持而无法应对的症状。这对大学的财务和声誉也有相当大的负面影响。我们的愿景是将尖端的人工智能驱动的软件整合到我们现有的和经过验证的学生燃料培训计划中，以提高其交付、可扩展性和有效性，从而提高更多学生在心理自我管理、心理弹性和长期积极行为方面的成功水平。我们这个项目的主要目标是提供一个软件产品‘Meee学生燃料模块’，它(A)快速分析大量的学生反馈，(B)使用创新和道德的人工智能来提供更多的取证，因此具有价值，对反馈的分析比人类所能做的要多，(C)是为了支持我们燃料计划的原则、结构和交付。另一个目标是将智能对话机器人作为一种新的、吸引人的、低摩擦的调查方法，供学生在大学期间的任何阶段全天候使用。这将提高学生反馈数据的数量和质量，这些数据将由新的人工智能软件模块进行分析。大学正在积极寻求通过数字转型更好地利用数据。这笔资金将加快开发和交付人工智能驱动的解决方案，以满足他们的迫切需求。由于我们的燃料计划旨在(A)使学生能够提高他们自己的自我照顾能力，(B)向大学的各种支持人员传授知识，我们将积极解决现有心理健康支持的不足。总体而言，提高1%的学生保留率将为一所大学平均每年节省139万英磅。提高学生的参与度和成功将会给当地、地区和国家带来长期的社会经济利益。

Meee's FAST Start project proposal will deliver an industry-leading technical solution to help overcome the mental-wellbeing challenges increasingly experienced by those attending further and higher education institutions.Over 20% of university students have a mental health diagnosis with some groups within student bodies being at greater risk. Non-binary students are four times as likely to experience mental health problems than binary students.5.3% of students taking their first degree who entered UK universities in 2019-20 were no longer in higher education a year later. Some universities had drop-out rates as high as 32.3%. This is a symptom of students being unable to cope due to a lack of suitable support. It also has a considerable negative financial and reputational impact on universities.Our vision is to incorporate cutting-edge AI-driven software into our existing and proven student FUEL training programmes to improve their delivery, scalability, and effectiveness, thereby increasing levels of success in more students' mental self-management, mental resilience, and long-term positive behaviours.Our key objectives for this project are to deliver a software product 'Meee Student FUEL module' that (a) analyses huge quantities of student feedback rapidly, (b) uses innovative and ethical AI to provide more forensic, and therefore valuable, analysis of the feedback than humans can do and (c) is aligned to do this in support of our FUEL programme's principles, structure, and delivery.An additional objective is to incorporate a smart conversation bot as a new, engaging, and low-friction survey method for students to use at any stage, 24/7, of their journey through university. This will increase the quantity and quality of the feedback data from students that will be analysed by the new AI software moduleUniversities are actively looking to leverage data better through digital transformation. This funding will accelerate development and delivery of an AI-driven solution that will meet their urgent requirements. As our FUEL programme is designed to (a) enable students to improve their own self-care and (b) be taught to a wide variety of support staff in universities, we will be actively addressing the shortfall in existing mental health support.Improving student retention by 1% overall will save a university on average £1.39m per year. Improving student engagement and success will have a long-term socio-economic benefit locally, regionally, and nationally.