What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Maintain the focus on improving the proportion of students achieving high grades on advanced courses.
- Make sure that all students gain a good understanding of the expectations and opportunities in the world of work to complement their academic studies.
Areas for improvement
The college should address:
- inconsistency in performance across subjects
- satisfactory and inadequate curriculum management in a few areas
- weaknesses in self-assessment in a few subjects.
What should be improved
- pass and retention rates on key skills courses
- planning in a minority of lessons
- pass rates at A* to C on GCSE English and GCSE mathematics courses
- some aspects of quality assurance
- governors' links with the curriculum.
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