What does West Herts College need to do to improve further?
- Leaders must ensure that they help staff to improve the professional behaviours of the minority of learners who do not reflect the high standards demonstrated by most learners across the college.
- Leaders must ensure that managers and teachers of the minority of subjects where learning is not yet consistently good work together effectively to plan the curriculum and share good practice. This will ensure that learners are able to apply new learning to their studies fluently.
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Leaders and managers should rapidly improve students’ attendance by setting high expectations of their staff to ensure that they apply more rigour in challenging students who do not attend.
- Ensure that teachers improve their skills in enabling students to accelerate their English and mathematics skills and make good progress.
- Ensure that teachers use a broad range of techniques and approaches to challenge students studying courses at level 3 to excel.
What does West Herts College need to do to improve further?
- Continue to raise success rates, particularly on work-based programmes and on short courses, by monitoring the progress of learners rigorously against planned completion dates.
- Share the best practice in teaching and learning to increase the proportion of outstanding lessons and ensure all learners are sufficiently challenged so they make the progress of which they are capable.
- Ensure that the self-assessment process is fully inclusive by greater involvement of employers.
- Ensure that equality and diversity is promoted consistently well within all curriculum areas.
Areas for improvement
The college should address:
- achievement of learners aged 19 and over
- the use of ILT in teaching and learning
- the development of teaching strategies which meet the needs of all learners
- the consistency of target setting and monitoring of students’ progress
- links with employers and arrangements for work-related experience
- the implementation and full embedding of New Measures of Success, particularly in relation to value-added analysis
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