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Inspection Report Recommendations

Gateshead College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Take rapid and effective action to tackle the college’s serious financial weaknesses in order to ensure the future sustainability of the quality of education.
  • Ensure that managers gain effective oversight of apprenticeship provision and take appropriate action to make sure that staff take ownership for improving apprentices’ progress in the development of new knowledge, skills and behaviours.
  • Effectively plan and coordinate apprentices’ on- and off-the-job training to ensure that the knowledge and skills that apprentices develop in training are well linked to workplace expectations and tasks.
  • Ensure that all teachers focus on developing learners’ English skills by helping to improve learners’ knowledge and their ability to apply this knowledge to their work.

Gateway Sixth Form College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should work with staff in information technology and health and social care to develop a clear understanding of what students need to know for their next steps, to understand how best to sequence learning, and to develop their teaching skills.
  • Leaders and managers should work with staff to help them develop their understanding of how to use feedback most effectively.
  • Leaders, managers and staff should work with students to ensure they understand British values and the threats posed by those with radical and extremist views.
  • Governors should provide leaders and managers with greater challenge and take a more active role in driving further improvements at the college.

Glasgow Clyde College

2019 Full Inspection Report
Area for Development
  • Further work is required in more effective target setting, performance monitoring and improving retention and attainment for different groups experiencing barriers to learning.
  • There is a need to create a stronger evidence base in the development and application of Equality Impact Assessments, especially in relation to specific policies and procedures.

Glasgow Kelvin College

2019 Full Inspection Report
Areas for improvement
  • A few staff still show lack of awareness of regional and national priorities. For example – DYW is not yet consistently reflected in evaluation and planning processes.
  • The College should seek to improve further student awareness of the role and impact of the Student Association.

Gloucestershire College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and governors must improve systems for monitoring the impact of safeguarding training on staff’s knowledge and the implementation and reporting processes.
  • Leaders and governors must improve swiftly the quality of the curriculum for learners with high needs so that they are taught the skills they need to progress rapidly to the next stage of their education, training, employment and lives in their local communities.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that all learners and apprentices, including learners with high needs, have additional opportunities to develop further their understanding of health and well-being, take part in additional enrichment learning activities and external work placements and receive high-quality careers education, advice and guidance.
  • Leaders and managers must implement strategies to improve the attendance of learners studying on a minority of programmes, particularly English and mathematics, to maximise the learning outcomes for all learners.
  • Leaders, managers and tutors must involve employers in the development of all curriculums to ensure tutors are planning, sequencing and teaching a relevant and ambitious curriculum content that meets the skills needs of all learner

Godalming College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Trustees, leaders, managers and staff have very high expectations of their students. They have developed an outstanding culture in the college, which concentrates very strongly on learning and developing students’ independent learning skills. As a result, students are highly motivated, determined to succeed and studious. They are extremely committed to their studies. Students benefit from the extensive range of subjects, which enables them to follow the most appropriate programmes for their ambitions and aspirations. They appreciate the excellent resources and accommodation that help them learn.

Gower College

2018 Full Inspection Report
Recommendations
  1. Ensure that all learners attain the highest standards and grades they can
  2. Improve the extent to which learners practise and develop their literacy, numeracy and digital literacy skills through their vocational and academic programmes
  3. Increase opportunities for learners to sustain and develop Welsh as an employability and life skill
  4. Improve teaching strategies to ensure that learners of all abilities are challenged sufficiently in lessons
  5. Make sure that all self-evaluation processes are robust, evaluative and accurate across all areas of the college

Grantham College

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should make sure that all courses and the personal development curriculum are logically planned so that students and apprentices gain the knowledge and skills they require over time.
  • Managers should support all teachers to use assessment well and to help them develop appropriate resources and activities to aid students’ learning.
  • Leaders and governors should continue to closely monitor attendance and their strategies to improve student outcomes to ensure that students attend their courses and achieve.
  • Leaders should ensure that staffing continues to be in place for engineering apprentices and that they catch up with their studies and achieve.

Greater Birmingham & Solihull Institute of Technology

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders, managers, and governors must improve the oversight of safeguarding by:
    • ensuring that designated safeguarding leads and officers undertake training to enable them to record and monitor incidents accurately
    • improving the training for staff to ensure they all use the central system to report and raise concerns consistently.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all teachers and assessors accurately assess learners’ starting points and use this information to inform their teaching  Leaders and managers should ensure that teachers and assessors provide sufficient feedback to enable learners to achieve to the level of which they are capable
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that attendance in a few subjects, including English and mathematics, improves.

Greater Brighton Metropolitan College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Make sure that teachers who are identified as needing further training participate in this and implement what they have learned in their teaching, especially those teaching level 1 and 2 students. Use the good practice that already exists in the college, such as in visual arts, to help all teachers improve.
  • Train teachers, especially those who teach students at levels 2 and 3, to develop the skills necessary to support students with high needs on their courses.
  • Increase the attendance rates of 16- to 18-year-old students by investigating why they do not attend their lessons frequently. Use individual strategies to help students who face barriers to attending frequently to overcome these.
  • Increase the numbers of 16- to 18-year-old students who take part in meaningful, external work experience placements.
  • Improve the proportion of apprentices who achieve their qualifications by making sure that assessors work more closely with employers, and make sure all apprentices complete their learning in the planned timescale.
  • Make sure that governors understand fully the performance of the different areas in the college, so they can better support leaders to make improvements more rapidly.

Grimsby Institute

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that they strengthen further their focus on raising standards at the Yorkshire Coast College campus so that all learners enjoy the same high-quality experience.
  • Improve the quality of written feedback that learners receive so that it is consistently helpful in enabling learners to improve the quality of their written work.

Grŵp Llandrillo Menai

2017 Full Inspection Report
Recommendations
  1. Ensure that all learners attain the highest standards and grades they can
  2. Improve the use of short term targets for learners so that they know what they need to do to improve
  3. Improve teaching strategies to ensure that all learners are fully challenged
  4. Improve the quality of self-evaluation in learning areas

Guernsey College of Further Education

2015 Full Inspection Report
We discussed with staff and the Education Department how they might continue to improve the college. This is what we agreed with them.
  • Continue to improve retention and achievement rates, particularly in those programme areas where they are low.
  • Provide staff with the necessary CPD to enable them to engage more fully in self-evaluation activities to support improvement.
  • The college and Education Department need to work together more effectively to find workable solutions to long-running challenges around cover and recruitment of staff.

Hadlow College

2010 Full Inspection Report
What does Hadlow College need to do to improve further?
  • Improve the use of ILT in lessons to drive up teaching standards and increase the amount of outstanding teaching.
  • Improve the engagement of employers in work-based learning programmes in order to improve the quality of training and outcomes for learners.
  • Improve the promotion of equality and diversity in lessons to ensure that learners develop a better understanding of the diverse world in which they live.

Halesowen College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that more learners engage in a broader range of relevant activities where they can learn the skills necessary for work, such as working to deadlines, teamworking and occupational skills relevant to their career aspirations in order that they are well equipped as they progress into the next stage of their career.
  • Ensure that teachers set more complex and challenging work for the most-able learners to ensure that they can fulfil their potential.
  • When observing lessons, leaders and managers need to have a stronger focus on the impact of teaching on the progress that all learners make in lessons, in order to bring about sustained improvements in teaching, learning and assessment.
  • Staff need to monitor more closely the progress that all learners make, so that they can identify more quickly when learners fall behind with their work and put in place the appropriate support.

Hammersmith & Fulham Adult Learning & Skills Service

2010 Full Inspection Report
What does the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham need to do to improve further?
  • Further improve outcomes in arts, media and publishing and languages, by empowering learners to have full ownership of setting and achieving challenging goals.
  • Further improve the quality of teaching and learning by ensuring that: all learner journals are rich and detailed; all staff make effective use of ILT; and literacy, numeracy and language support is properly embedded in all lessons.

Haringey Sixth Form College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that teachers plan a curriculum that logically connects both academic and non-academic components. For vocational programmes, staff need to ensure that students undertake timely relevant external work experience.
  • Leaders need to ensure that teachers receive high-quality subject-specific training that supports them to improve their teaching practice.
  • Leaders should ensure that students, particularly those not intending to apply to university, have timely access to careers advice and guidance about the full range of pathways available.
  • Staff should continue to improve student attendance, by ensuring that expectations are consistently high. They should implement strategies to support those students who are persistently absent to attend their lessons and to remain up to date with their work.

Harlow College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that more learners make swift progress in improving their skills and achieving their qualifications in English and mathematics, by:
    • focusing managers’ and teachers’ actions more effectively on improving the support provided for functional skills
    • ensuring that all learners attend their classes in English and mathematics regularly and punctually
    • continuing to make improvements to the teaching, learning and assessment of GCSEs and functional skills.
  • Make sure that teachers set, monitor and review precise and ambitious targets for learners and apprentices that enable them to make rapid progress, particularly for the most able.
  • Reduce the variability in achievement between different groups of apprentices, by monitoring the performance of these apprentices carefully, identifying reasons for non-achievement and taking prompt action to address these.

Harrogate College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Identify the starting points of learners aged 16 to 18 on GCSE English and mathematics courses more accurately so that tutors can plan and teach curriculum content that enables these learners to develop substantial new knowledge, skills and behaviours.
  • Ensure that tutors who work with learners with high needs set targets that are consistently specific and enable all these learners to progress quickly against identified areas for development.
  • Increase attendance in the subjects where it is too low.
  • Ensure that the quality of education provided for learners aged 14 to 16 on fulltime provision at the Mabgate campus continues to improve swiftly.

Harrow College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that learners and apprentices are aware of the enrichment opportunities available at the college to improve participation in these activities.
  • Leaders should ensure that teachers of mainstream subjects make consistent use of EHC plan outcomes to plan a bespoke curriculum for learners with high needs that enables learners to develop their independence and the skills they need for work and adult life.
  • In a minority of apprenticeship programmes, teachers should improve their sequencing of the curriculum to ensure apprentices develop basic knowledge before learning more-complex topics.

Hartlepool College of Further Education

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Use staff training and quality improvement activities to ensure that teachers plan lessons carefully, taking into account learners’ starting points and information from assessment, so that activities are interesting and challenging for all learners.
  • Provide training, support and challenge for teachers so that they are better able to agree specific and challenging targets with learners that help them to understand how to make good progress in developing new skills and achieving their goals.
  • Increase the proportion of learners that achieve English and mathematics qualifications by:
    • ensuring that learners attend lessons in these subjects more frequently
    • further developing effective strategies to identify gaps in learners’ knowledge and ensuring that teachers focus on individual learners’ areas of weakness.

Hartlepool Sixth Form College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that students in all curriculum areas have high attendance at college.
  • Ensure that all tutors check the understanding of students before moving on to the next topic.
  • Ensure that students with high needs have the opportunity to progress to employment where appropriate.
  • Ensure that all students receive information on apprenticeships, including higher apprenticeships, when planning their next steps.

Havant & South Downs College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should review the actions they have taken in order to ensure that students and apprentices understand local threats, and they should make sure that they help students and apprentices improve their knowledge of risks in their own communities and workplaces.
  • Leaders and managers should continue to improve the classroom skills of weaker teachers so that all students and apprentices benefit from a high-quality education.
  • Leaders and managers should improve their tracking of students’ participation in activities outside their course requirements in order to measure in more detail the impact these activities have.

Havering Adult College

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that more of the teaching and learning is outstanding. Provide training for all teachers so that they have the confidence and knowledge to integrate English and mathematics into their lessons, and make good use of naturally-occurring opportunities and current events to foster a wider understanding of equality and diversity.
  • Review the courses in independent living so that learners become less dependent on the teacher and progress more quickly. Deploy the learning support assistants more effectively so that all learners can actively contribute in lessons and make better progress. Actively focus on, and encourage, the development of communication skills, so that learners are prepared better for independence and participation in their community.
  • Monitor closely the progress of apprentices on subcontracted provision to ensure that they complete their programmes within the agreed timescale, and that apprentices achieve their qualifications in English and mathematics.

Haywards Heath 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.

Report Recommendations

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