What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders should improve the curriculum for personal development to better prepare students for life in modern Britain and the world of work.
- Leaders should improve the quality of careers advice so that students are fully informed of all options open to them for their next steps and those students who wish to take an alternative route are as well prepared and supported as their peers moving on to university.
- Curriculum leaders, supported by their managers, should improve the quality of teaching in the few areas where performance is low so that all students, including those with high needs, make the progress that they are capable of.
- Senior managers should ensure that governors understand fully the weaknesses of the college and hold leaders to account so that they improve these weaknesses rapidly.
What does Queen Mary’s College need to do to improve further?
- Improve teachers' planning to meet more consistently the wide range of students' individual needs in lessons in order to ensure that students’ progress across the range of subjects is consistently high.
- Develop more precision in target-setting for students in progress reviews, so that all students are involved in, and able to identify clearly, the incremental steps they must take to achieve their learning aims.
- Ensure that the lesson observation provides a systematic check on the progress teachers have made on areas for development from the previous observation.
- Strengthen formal arrangements for sharing good practice, so that students’ achievements, the quality of teaching and learning, and the performance of curriculum areas are consistently high across the range of the college’s work.
Areas for improvement
The college should address:
- low retention and success rates on GCE AS level courses
- low pass and success rates on level 1 courses
- poor student punctuality at lessons
What should be improved
- students' punctuality for lessons
- retention and pass rates on some courses
- use of information and learning technology (ILT) in some curriculum areas
- effectiveness of group tutorials.
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