What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Enable more students to achieve their best by leaders ensuring that:
- all teaching staff record student assessments regularly, in a way which enables progress mentors to identify students who are underperforming
- students on science and mathematics A-level courses achieve as well as they are capable.
- Improve the development of students’ skills for employment by:
- ensuring that each student has an individual plan for developing the skills that they will need for their chosen career path or vocational area of interest
- increasing significantly the proportion of students who undertake a high-quality work experience placement.
- Improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment by:
- providing relevant training and development for teachers to support them in designing activities to extend the learning of the most able students
- sharing more widely the good practice of teachers who successfully provide students with more challenging activities
- ensuring that teachers have the plans, skills and confidence to support the development of students’ mathematical skills in all courses.
Areas for improvement
The college should address:
- variable performance in a minority of AS and A-level subjects
- insufficient challenge to students in a minority of lessons.
What should be improved
- key skills provision o effectiveness of group tutorials
- sharing of teaching skills and best practice between subject teams
- pass rates and the proportion of high grades achieved in some GCE AS and A-level subjects.
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