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Inspection Report Recommendations

College of Haringey, Enfield, & North East London

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Teachers should ensure that learners and apprentices on all programmes receive feedback about their work which helps them identify the areas they need to improve.
  • Leaders should ensure that learners taking vocational qualifications at level 2 and level 3 receive sufficient support to help them prepare for and pass their examinations.
  • Leaders should ensure that the proportion of apprentices who achieve their programme increases.  Leaders should ensure that all apprentices and adult learners benefit from the same detailed information young learners receive around impartial careers advice and guidance, how to maintain a healthy lifestyle and improving their understanding of the importance of fundamental British values.
  • Leaders should ensure that learners and apprentices improve their understanding of the dangers associated with people with extreme views.

College of North West London

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and governors should ensure that learners across all programmes and provision types receive consistently high-quality teaching.
  • Leaders must ensure that learners with high needs and those on supported internship programmes have access to suitable teaching and appropriate assistive technologies and therapies to meet their individual needs.
  • Leaders should ensure they have robust processes in place to track and respond to learners’ progress so that they can achieve on time.
  • Leaders should ensure that staff set and maintain clear and high expectations of learners’ attendance and punctuality.
  • Leaders should ensure that apprentices have access to a curriculum beyond their qualifications so they can develop their interests and talents more broadly.

College of Richard Collyer

2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all teachers understand the strengths and weaknesses of their classroom practice, and support the few teachers who need to improve any weaknesses quickly.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all students benefit from work experience and work-readiness activities.
  • Leaders and managers should improve their tracking of students’ participation in enrichment opportunities in order to understand the impact of these activities.
  • Leaders and managers should check that all adult learners know and understand how to make a safeguarding disclosure.

College of West Anglia

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve outcomes for students on level 2 study programmes by monitoring closely the impact of actions taken to address lower achievement.
  • Strengthen teachers’ use of questioning to check students’ understanding and adapt their learning accordingly by providing teachers with suitable support and training.
  • Ensure that the most able students are stretched in their learning, particularly in their theoretical work, by:
    • giving teachers opportunities to work together in subject teams to identify clearly what students should be able to achieve in each of their subjects
    • providing training and support that help teachers to provide an appropriate level of challenge for the most able students.
  • Review the means by which students and apprentices are helped to understand British values and the dangers of radicalisation and extremism. Implement new approaches so that all students and apprentices are clear about these topics and have their understanding reinforced throughout their time at college.

Community Learning in Partnership

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve learners’ progress and attainment particularly in mathematics by:
    • setting, recording and reviewing productive targets that are hard enough
    • providing all relevant tutors with training to enable them, where appropriate, to include the teaching of mathematics in vocational lessons
    • developing learners’ everyday arithmetic skills further to help them understand personal money matters
    • setting more complex tasks for more able learners particularly for intermediate level learners.
  • Rapidly improve attendance by:
    • putting in place thorough arrangements to follow up diligently learners who miss lessons
    • setting individual challenging but realistic incremental improvement targets to eliminate unauthorised absence
    • ensuring absent learners are not at risk during the periods when they are expected to be in lessons
    • ensuring that the initiatives to improve attendance and reduce persistent absence focus closely on those learners who are at a risk of homelessness.
  • Consolidate the recent improvements and strengthen strategic leadership by:
    • requiring the non-executive directors to set the highest expectations of the senior manager, and rigorously managing their performance to consistently raise learner’s achievement
    • strengthening arrangements to share good practice
    • replicating identified outstanding features from each centre across the provision, and
    • enhancing the self-assessment report further.

Confetti Institute

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Continue to raise success rates by identifying precisely why the comparatively small proportion of male students, adults and those students with specific learning difficulties and/or disabilities are performing less well than the majority of students and design strategies to narrow the performance gap of these different groups of students.
  • Continue to improve teaching, learning and assessment by ensuring that all staff challenge students in practical activities and lecturers devise methods that will fully stretch and challenge the most able students.
  • Extend the current good practice of target setting, recording and reporting on assessed theory work to include all practical activities and assessments.
  • Ensure students can gain access to the online individual learning plans outside tutorial time, to enable them to monitor more accurately the progress they are making.
  • Establish higher expectations of students to improve their attendance.
  • Undertake further training and briefing of staff to continue to raise their awareness of how to identify better opportunities to raise students' awareness of equalities and diversity.

Connell Sixth Form College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Managers should ensure that the standard of education and training in newly implemented vocational programmes is as rigorous as it is in the more established courses. They should do this by:
    • ensuring that students’ starting points are clearly identified and teachers use this information to plan programmes that will challenge students to achieve their potential
    • providing purposeful and regular feedback to students to help them to extend their knowledge and develop new skills to assist them in making good progress in their studies.
  • Leaders and managers should improve the financial stability of the college.
  • Leaders, governors and managers should set clear and specific actions in the quality improvement plan to enable them to evaluate continually the progress they make.

Cornwall College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders need to improve the quality of teaching in literacy and numeracy lessons so that students make better progress from their starting points, attend in higher numbers and achieve their qualifications.
  • Senior leaders must swiftly implement the new adult learning strategy and engage more hard-to-reach learners, including adults needing to improve their literacy and numeracy skills.
  • Managers must further develop the few teachers who are not yet sufficiently skilled in teaching theory topics to students, so that students understand the link between theory and practice.

Coulsdon College

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that the much improved teaching and learning in the college result in a continuation of the trend of rapidly improving success rates, most notably for students aged 16 to 18.
  • Share more of the good practice of the many outstanding teachers in the college who set high expectations for their students.
  • Ensure that attendance and punctuality are consistently good across all areas of the college by continuing to take firm actions to reinforce with students the need to attend lessons regularly and on time as an important part of succeeding at college and developing their employability skills.
  • Explore ways in which a number of subject areas can offer external work experience for a period of time during students’ studies at college in order to take advantage of the rapidly improving partnerships with employers and to enhance the many initiatives already in place to bring students into contact with employers through their coursework.

Coventry College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers must quickly respond to the concerns within apprenticeships. They need to make sure that apprentices receive high-quality teaching that is based on their starting points. The curriculum must be ambitious and challenge apprentices to meet their potential. They must coordinate on- and off-the-job learning to ensure apprentices gain the opportunity to practise newly learned skills.
  • Leaders should make sure that learners and apprentices benefit from a curriculum that is informed by employers to ensure they have the knowledge and skills that employers require, now and in the future.
  • Leaders need to make sure that learners and apprentices consistently receive high-quality teaching. All staff must be given the support they need to improve their teaching practice.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that adult learners and apprentices routinely receive high-quality, unbiased career advice and guidance so that they are aware of the opportunities available to them.
  • Leaders and managers need to ensure that the curriculum for adult learners and apprentices goes beyond their immediate qualifications. They should ensure that learners develop confidence, resilience and knowledge so that they can keep themselves mentally and physically healthy and deepen learners’ and apprentices’ understanding of age-appropriate, healthy relationships.

Craven College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the proportion of students who attend regularly by:
    • examining fully the reasons for poor attendance and implementing strategies to tackle and overcome these
    • improving the way in which attendance is reported to the parents of students aged 16 to 18.
  • Further improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment by ensuring that teachers provide activities that challenge the most able students at levels 1 and 2, so that these students make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Further develop strategies to ensure that adult students, students with high needs and apprentices develop a sound understanding of the dangers of extremism and radicalisation.
  • Continue to improve the teaching of GCSE mathematics and English to increase the proportion of students who gain a high grade.

Crawley College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Governors, leaders and staff have high expectations of all learners and apprentices. They help them achieve their goals and become responsible members of both the college and wider community. Leaders have created an outstanding culture of inclusivity and respect. Consequently, learners develop an understanding of different groups in wider society. Teachers inspire learners to fully commit to their studies and, as a result, they develop the skills, knowledge and behaviours they need to be successful. Learners and apprentices benefit from the considerable range of options that enable them to follow the most appropriate programmes for their future aspirations.

Cronton Sixth Form College

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that the much improved teaching and learning in the college result in a continuation of the trend of rapidly improving success rates, most notably for students aged 16 to 18.
  • Share more of the good practice of the many outstanding teachers in the college who set high expectations for their students.
  • Ensure that attendance and punctuality are consistently good across all areas of the college by continuing to take firm actions to reinforce with students the need to attend lessons regularly and on time as an important part of succeeding at college and developing their employability skills.
  • Explore ways in which a number of subject areas can offer external work experience for a period of time during students’ studies at college in order to take advantage of the rapidly improving partnerships with employers and to enhance the many initiatives already in place to bring students into contact with employers through their coursework.

Croydon Adult Learning & Training

2010 Full Inspection Report
What does Croydon Adult Learning and Training need to do to improve further?
  • Continue to implement strategies to improve success rates, particularly in literacy and numeracy courses.
  • Develop systems for more robust monitoring of attendance to enable all learners successfully to complete their learning aims and qualifications.
  • Ensure the good practice around planning for individual learning is shared more widely.
  • Further develop the use of information learning technology to meet a wider range of learners’ needs in lessons and support learning strategies.
  • Continue to implement measures to ensure available resources are managed effectively to provide value for money.

Croydon College

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that the much improved teaching and learning in the college result in a continuation of the trend of rapidly improving success rates, most notably for students aged 16 to 18.
  • Share more of the good practice of the many outstanding teachers in the college who set high expectations for their students.
  • Ensure that attendance and punctuality are consistently good across all areas of the college by continuing to take firm actions to reinforce with students the need to attend lessons regularly and on time as an important part of succeeding at college and developing their employability skills.
  • Explore ways in which a number of subject areas can offer external work experience for a period of time during students’ studies at college in order to take advantage of the rapidly improving partnerships with employers and to enhance the many initiatives already in place to bring students into contact with employers through their coursework.

Darlington College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that staff set high expectations of attendance in GCSE mathematics and ESOL sessions so that more students attend frequently.
  • Ensure that apprentices’ prior knowledge in English and mathematics is identified at the start of their programmes so that staff can develop apprentices’ skills and understanding in these areas.
  • Ensure that across all parts of the curriculum, including provision for students with high needs, employers are sufficiently involved in curriculum planning and design.
  •  Provide all students with high-quality careers information, advice and guidance early in their programme, to support them to identify potential career and training routes for their chosen next steps.

Dearne Valley College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that the attendance and punctuality of learners and apprentices continues to improve.
  • Take action swiftly to improve curriculum areas that are not yet at the standard required by leaders.
  • Ensure that information collected about learners and apprentices at the start of their course is used by all teachers to support learners and apprentices to make rapid progress.

Derby Adult Learning Service

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders should ensure that adult learners from all curriculum areas attend their courses at high rates.
  • Leaders should gather data on all learners’ and apprentices’ destinations after they finish their courses to help them inform future curriculum changes.
  • Leaders should ensure that all tutors set learners specific targets to help learners develop the weakest areas of their knowledge.

Derby College

2016 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Increase significantly the proportion of learners on AS- and A-level programmes who achieve the highest grades, by:
    • setting more challenging targets for learners based on accurate assessment of their starting points
    • monitoring more closely the progress that learners make towards achieving their targets, so that they know what they have to do to improve their grades.
  • Ensure teachers make better use of information about learners’ prior attainment to set activities which are sufficiently challenging, particularly for the most-able learners.
  • Improve the quality of teaching and learning in mathematics, as well as attendance, by ensuring that teachers provide more relevant and engaging learning activities, for example by applying mathematics to everyday practical problems or the workplace.

Derwentside College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Encourage more young people living locally to attend the college to gain the skills that they need to take advantage of local and regional job opportunities.
  • Ensure that improvements in the monitoring of apprentices’ progress and the support that is provided for apprentices who fall behind are sustained.
  • Improve communication with employers to increase their involvement in apprenticeship progress reviews.
  • Ensure that all teachers check that learners have fully acquired the knowledge and skills that they should have gained during previous courses so that they can identify and address any gaps in learning.

Dixons Sixth Form Academy

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the school need to do to improve further?
  • Continue to improve the provision for pupils with SEND so that more of them make progress that at least matches other pupils with the same starting points.

Doncaster College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that feedback is consistently effective for all learners and apprentices to help them improve.
  • Ensure high levels of attendance across all programmes.
  • Ensure that all tutors of adult learning programmes reinforce new learning so that adult learners retain information over time.
  • Ensure that all adults understand how to achieve their long-term career goals.

Duchy College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders need to improve the quality of teaching in literacy and numeracy lessons so that students make better progress from their starting points, attend in higher numbers and achieve their qualifications.
  • Senior leaders must swiftly implement the new adult learning strategy and engage more hard-to-reach learners, including adults needing to improve their literacy and numeracy skills.
  • Managers must further develop the few teachers who are not yet sufficiently skilled in teaching theory topics to students, so that students understand the link between theory and practice.

Dudley College of Technology

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve provision for learners with high needs by:
    • ensuring that teachers of vocational subjects use the detailed information available to them to plan and adapt activities to meet fully the needs of learners with high needs
    • ensuring that learners are involved fully in setting their personal development targets so they make good progress in becoming more independent and self-confident.
  • Continue to improve achievement rates in level 2 functional mathematics and on the very small minority of underperforming courses.

Dudley Sixth Form College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve provision for learners with high needs by:
    • ensuring that teachers of vocational subjects use the detailed information available to them to plan and adapt activities to meet fully the needs of learners with high needs
    • ensuring that learners are involved fully in setting their personal development targets so they make good progress in becoming more independent and self-confident.
  • Continue to improve achievement rates in level 2 functional mathematics and on the very small minority of underperforming courses.

Dumfries & Galloway College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What should we improve?

We want to use the college’s Kaleidoscope project, which will be strategically located on the way to the canteen. It will encourage students from different protected backgrounds to feel even more integrated and valued for their diversity, opening up opportunities for discussion and sharing experiences. This combines our need to communicate with students on issues such as equality, diversity, sustainability, ecology, community and knowledge through one cross college team, including the Student Association President and Vice President. Each month a relevant theme, for example, Black History Month, LGBT History Month and Interfaith Month (to include Holocaust Memorial Day) will be set up in a dedicated space in each campus. This will clearly display that the college attracts and benefits from students from all different backgrounds and cultures. This gives a wider perspective to a rural college and encourages the discussion of different cultures and viewpoints to enrich the learning experience.

  • The fair and open access policy for potential students will continue but a more appropriate advice and interview procedure will be implemented. Progression opportunities will be more clearly identified on the website and this will allow applying students to fully understand their journey, be more informed from the outset and improve retention figures linked to students applying to incorrect courses.
  • We want to improve further on the good retention rate of 73% of FT FE students with a declared disability and improve on the 63% success rate from those students. FT HE students have higher statistics at 79% retention with 65% attainment but this could also improve.
  • The college will continue to take measures to improve both mental health awareness and gender issues for students.

Report Recommendations

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