What does the provider need to do to improve?
- To improve further the quality of teaching, learning and assessment by ensuring that all teachers and learning and skills coaches (LSCs):
- use the results of assessments completed at the start of students’ and apprentices’ programmes to set aspirational targets and plan learning activities that result in students and apprentices making good progress in their studies and achieving the grades of which they are capable
- provide all students and apprentices with helpful feedback on their work that helps them to improve. Teachers should identify where students and apprentices need to enhance their work and provide specific guidance on how they could make improvements.
- Improve attendance rates so they are at least in line with college targets and ensure that students, particularly those on 16 to 19 study programmes, attend lessons punctually.
- Improve the rate of progress that AS- and A-level students make in their studies to at least match that of vocational students on 16 to 19 study programmes.
- Increase the proportion of apprentices that complete their apprenticeship on time.
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Rapidly improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment by:
- ensuring that students are placed on the right programmes to meet their individual needs, stay on their programmes and achieve their qualifications at the grades of which they are capable
- ensuring that teachers use assessments of students’ starting points to set demanding individual targets and plan lessons well so that students are challenged to meet and exceed their targets, achieve the grades of which they are capable and meet their full potential
- ensuring that students know the progress they are making and are given clear guidance on what they need to do to improve
- ensuring all students have a good understanding of the threats of radicalisation and extremism.
- Increase the proportion of 16 to 19 study programme students, particularly those on academic programmes that have meaningful work experience opportunities, and ensure that students benefit from work experience at a suitable point in their programme to help them to make informed decisions about their next steps and career options.
- Increase the proportion of apprentices who complete their apprenticeships.
- Strengthen data management and reporting to ensure leaders, managers and governors accurately monitor the quality of all provision and have a clear understanding of the progress that students and apprentices make.
- Improve the effectiveness of self-assessment processes and quality improvement planning to ensure leaders, managers and governors have an accurate view of the strengths and weaknesses of the provision and are able to implement swift and effective strategies to bring about improvement.
Areas for improvement
The college should address
- success rates and progress made by learners on a small proportion of courses
- the relatively low proportion of outstanding teaching and learning.
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What should be improved?
- low retention rates for courses for adult students
- low retention and pass rates for work-based programmes
- inadequate library book stock
- insufficient analysis of data relating students prior attainment and potential to outcomes.
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