What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders and managers should improve teaching, learning and assessment by ensuring that teachers:
- plan learning that supports students who are least able and challenges those most able.
- check students’ knowledge and understanding effectively before moving on to new learning
- ensure that students capture and record their learning to help their future progress
- share more widely the best practice that exists within the college.
- Leaders and managers should ensure that all A-level students who plan to move into employment or apprenticeships undertake a relevant external work placement.
- Leaders and managers should ensure that teachers and assessors enable students on level 2 vocational courses and intermediate apprentices to make good progress and complete their programmes within planned timescales.
Areas for improvement
The college should address
- the take-up and accreditation of key skills
- the proportion of A*-C grades in GCSE English and mathematics
- retention rates on distance learning courses for adult learners
- the quality of accommodation in some areas.
What should be improved
- retention and pass rates on some courses
- lack of rigour in aspects of the self-assessment process
- unreliable data on retention and pass rates
- students' low take up of learning support
- inadequate monitoring of the promotion of equal opportunities.
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