What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Increase the number of young learners who stay on their course, and the number of young learners and learners with high needs who pass their qualifications.
- Improve initial advice and guidance for learners so that they choose and study the right course.
- Improve the assessment of what learners know and can do when they begin studying their course, and the ongoing assessments of learners’ knowledge and skills so that teachers and learners know whether they are making the progress of which they are capable, can identify their gaps in knowledge and can restructure the curriculum accordingly.
- Increase the number of young learners and learners with high needs taking part in high-quality work experience placements so that those who plan to move into employment are suitably prepared.
- Increase the attendance of young learners and learners with high needs for all parts of their programme, including GCSE English and mathematics classes and tutorial sessions.
- Increase and improve stakeholder engagement in the curriculum design for education programmes for young people and learners with high needs so that learners develop industry-relevant skills.
- Improve the focus of curriculum reports so that governors can more robustly challenge leaders on the progress made by learners in their learning and their achievement of qualifications.
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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