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Inspection Report Recommendations

New College Lanarkshire

2019 Full Inspection Report
Areas for development
  • To ensure a sound, current understanding of equality and diversity issues as well as responsibilities held by staff to minimise barriers to learning, ongoing professional updates required for staff.
  • As part of the NCL Gender Action Plan, there is a requirement to continue to work with key stakeholders to address gender imbalance in a significant number of programmes. This will include extending some of the actions undertaken in 17/18.

New College Pontefract

2014 Full Inspection Report
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.

New College Swindon

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Implement fully, actions to ensure that teachers promote good or better progress for all learners within and outside lessons by ensuring teachers:
    • have consistently high expectations of all learners to encourage them to achieve their full potential
    • focus specifically on skills development rather than the completion of tasks, providing feedback of a consistently high quality to learners on the standard of their work, so that they know more precisely what they need to do to improve their performance
    • measure learners’ progress more frequently and thoroughly, and use challenging targets to help learners achieve their potential.
  • Reinforce clearly the expectations of vocational teachers in developing English skills across all subjects and support them to become confident and expert in these. Improve further learners’ English and mathematical skills through skilful use of vocational examples in learning and improve the teaching and learning of English by the specialist team.
  • Develop further the offer and increase the uptake of work experience so that all learners on vocational courses have a real experience of work.
  • Improve the way in which managers use the full range of data available to them to self-assess more accurately the relationship between outcomes data and the quality of teaching and learning.

New Directions College

2015 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Update the Information Technology (IT) strategy and policies to help ensure that all learners understand how to keep themselves safe online, and that tutors use IT more effectively and reinforce its appropriate use during lessons.
  • Ensure that managers take prompt action to address underperformance in key areas including:
    • communication between learning support workers and tutors
    • the structuring of the employability programmes to better meet individual needs.
  • Tutors should plan lessons more effectively to ensure that:
    • appropriate high-quality resources are available
    • they take into consideration individuals’ learning goals as well as the aims of the qualifications
    • they are aware of the strategies to use with learners who may need additional support to overcome barriers such as dyslexia or lack of confidence.
  • Analyse and use data more effectively to ensure that the self-assessment report is more evaluative and less descriptive.
  • Increase the diversity of people on the advisory board to ensure that learners’ and community views are fully represented.

Newbury College

2015 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure high quality target setting and frequent progress monitoring for all students.
  • Ensure all teachers provide precise and informative written and oral feedback that clearly tells students how they can improve and make better progress.
  • Provide high quality training and guidance to teachers so that they have the skills and confidence to teach English and mathematics in level 1 and level 2 functional skills lessons and in vocational settings so that students achieve their functional skills qualifications and successfully improve the standard of their literacy and numeracy.
  • Review and enforce strategies to ensure high attendance in all subject areas.
  • Ensure staff development and improvement activities closely align to those weaker aspects of teaching, learning and assessment identified through lesson observation, and also focus on techniques that will raise the quality of teaching, learning and assessment from good to outstanding.
  • Explore and implement arrangements to analyse, track and monitor accurately the progress students make relative to their starting points.

Newcastle & Stafford Colleges Group

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

Leaders and managers have very effectively brought about the merger of Newcastle College and Stafford College. They have integrated rapidly the two campuses, setting high expectations for both staff and learners. Direction from senior leaders is clear, supportive and challenging. As a result, staff are highly motivated and feel able to provide learners with an outstanding learning experience.

Newcastle City Learning

2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that teachers have high ambitions for apprentices and provide them with the guidance and teaching that they need to achieve distinction grades on their programmes.
  • Ensure that teachers identify and correct errors in the standard of written English produced by learners with high needs, so that they can provide learners with feedback on how to improve the accuracy of their work.
  • Invest in the internal and external fabric and facilities of the buildings used by adult learners so that they can enjoy a more comfortable and inspiring learning environment.

Newcastle College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the quality of education for apprentices by:
    • identifying the starting points of apprentices more accurately, so that skills trainers can plan and teach programmes that enable apprentices to develop substantial new knowledge, skills and behaviours
    • developing more effective links with employers so that they are fully involved in the planning of on-the-job training
    • ensuring that managers provide more rigorous scrutiny of the progress that apprentices make in the development of their knowledge, skills and behaviours
    • providing all apprentices with the opportunity to receive careers advice.
  • Ensure that all teachers and learning support assistants have secure knowledge in the subjects they teach and in which they provide support.
  • Increase the attendance of learners at English and mathematics lessons.

Newcastle Sixth Form College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the quality of education for apprentices by:
    • identifying the starting points of apprentices more accurately, so that skills trainers can plan and teach programmes that enable apprentices to develop substantial new knowledge, skills and behaviours
    • developing more effective links with employers so that they are fully involved in the planning of on-the-job training
    • ensuring that managers provide more rigorous scrutiny of the progress that apprentices make in the development of their knowledge, skills and behaviours
    • providing all apprentices with the opportunity to receive careers advice.
  • Ensure that all teachers and learning support assistants have secure knowledge in the subjects they teach and in which they provide support.
  • Increase the attendance of learners at English and mathematics lessons.

Newham College of Further Education

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that teachers across study programmes and apprenticeships assess learners’ starting points to identify prior knowledge. They should use this information to plan a curriculum that more effectively meets learners’ individual needs.
  • Leaders should continue to improve the quality of apprenticeship programmes so that it is as good as other provision types. Notably, they should ensure that teachers plan regular, good-quality reviews of apprentices’ progress jointly with their line manager. Apprentices should have access to careers information to help them identify their next steps. Apprentices should also receive high-quality teaching of knowledge of English and mathematics skills earlier in the course, so that they can complete their studies within expected timescales.

Newham Learning & Skills

2016 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that:
    • they enable the sharing of good practice within the service so that assessment more accurately identifies the personal learning goals of all learners
    • tutors set targets that are challenging, specific and measurable so that they can measure learners’ progress accurately
    • tutors provide learners with detailed feedback on their progress and what they need to do next.
  • Increase the flexibility and capacity of the data system so that managers can analyse the performance of the service more effectively, especially the progression and destinations of learners, and demonstrate the impact of the service.
  • Ensure that tutors are better prepared to meet the education and training needs of the more-able adult learners by providing them with work that helps them make the level of progress they are capable of.

Newham Sixth Form College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Teachers should:
    • share background information on students more thoroughly
    • use this information better to inform their lesson-planning and target-setting, and to help support all students to achieve their full potential.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that A-level students, and students taking GCSE mathematics, make suitable progress from their starting points and achieve their full potential.
  • Managers and teachers should maintain the focus on the strategies recently adopted to address the gaps in performance between different groups of students, especially between male and female students.
  • Managers should review timetables to ensure that rooms have the capacity to accommodate the number of students in each lesson.

North East Institute of Technology

2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that staff teaching vocational and academic courses make good use of the detailed information in the education and health care plans of learners with high needs so that their approaches to teaching and training meet the individual needs of these learners.
  • Ensure that any additional learning and support needs that adult learners may have are identified at the start of their programmes so that appropriate support can be provided to enable these learners to remain on their courses, make good progress and achieve.
  • Ensure that all apprentices benefit from well-structured and well-sequenced training so that they make good progress in developing the theoretical knowledge they need to support them in their jobs.

North East Scotland College

2019 Full Inspection Report
Areas for development

However:

Although progress has been made to improve access and support arrangements for all students including those traditionally experiencing barriers to learning, the College should:

  • Ensure that its admissions approaches continue to improve access to learning for specific ‘at-risk’ groups and that the gaps, currently SIMD10 (12% for AY2016-17); BME (2.2% for AY2016-17) and care experienced (1.6% for AY2016-17), between the College’s target enrolments and sector average decrease.
  • Ensure that success outcomes for full-time FE disabled (61.5% for AY2016-17); care experienced (34% for AY2016-17) and full-time HE SIMD10 (66.3% for AY2016-17) learners improve in line with the College’s Outcome Agreement targets and align more closely with sector averages.
  • Review and revise its Access and Inclusion Strategy in order to continue the improvement of outcomes and experiences for specific learners groups e.g. care experienced and disabled learners.

North East Surrey College of Technology

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that teachers in all areas use questioning and target setting appropriately so that students and apprentices know what they need to do to improve.
  • Leaders should ensure that students attend consistently well in all areas.
  • Leaders should ensure that full-time 14- to 16-year-old students benefit from a suitable curriculum for relationships, sex and health education.

North Hertfordshire College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that the quality of English and mathematics provision continues to improve in order that all learners attend their courses and improve their English and mathematical skills effectively.
  • Ensure that all staff effectively promote learners’, trainees’ and apprentices’ understanding of radicalisation and threats from extremist groups.
  • Continue the focus on ensuring that a higher proportion of apprentices complete their programmes within their expected timescales.

North Kent College

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Increase the proportion of students who successfully complete qualifications in English and mathematics by improving the use of initial assessment to place students on the correct level of study. Ensure that planning for individual students provides a clear pathway to gaining GCSEs at grades A* to C in mathematics and English, where this is a realistic goal.
  • Improve the quality of teaching and learning in functional skills lessons and ensure that vocational teachers have the necessary skills to include English and mathematics in their lessons and do so systematically.
  • Increase the extent to which staff monitor the progress of apprentices and ensure that interventions for individual apprentices are timely, robust and lead to sustained improvements in performance.
  • Increase the proportion of teaching and learning that is good and outstanding by building the capacity of college observers to provide precise guidance to individual teachers on their areas for improvement.

North Lincolnshire Adult Education & Community Learning

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase the number of learners accessing the new curriculum at the network of community hubs in all parts of the county, including those studying English.
  • Ensure that the proportion of hard-to-reach parents accessing family learning increases once the pandemic is officially over.
  • Ensure that all learners receive consistently helpful and motivational information, advice and guidance to encourage them to enrol on courses.

North Lindsey 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.

North Nottinghamshire 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.

North Shropshire College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should improve the quality of provision for learners with high needs so that they are taught the skills they need to progress rapidly to the next stage of their education or training.
  • Leaders should ensure that all learners and apprentices have a secure understanding of the risks associated with radicalisation and extremism in the sector areas in which learners and apprentices work and in their wider lives.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all learners and apprentices, including learners with EHC plans, receive unbiased and high-quality careers education, information, advice and guidance so that they know well the full range of next steps available to them.
  • Leaders should ensure that teachers improve the information they gain on what learners know and can do at the beginning of adult learners programmes, especially in ESOL, and for learners who have high needs. Teachers must use this information to plan learning carefully so that learners make the rapid progress of which they are capable.

North Warwickshire & South Leicestershire College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that all learners know the progress they are making and are given clear guidance by teachers on what they need to do to improve.
  • Ensure that all learners with high needs and SEND have access to purposeful and good-quality work experience through a supported internship programme.
  • Ensure that teachers and learning support staff work closely together to plan effective and beneficial in-class support that meets identified learner needs.
  • Improve the proportion of learners aged 16 to 19 studying GCSE English and mathematics who achieve grade 4 or higher.
  • Leaders and managers should quicken the pace of improvement so that variations in learners’ and apprentices’ achievement across different subject areas reduce and that learners’ and apprentices’ achievements are all consistently high.

North West Regional College

2012 Full Inspection Report
What does the North West Regional College need to do to improve further?

In further education, further work is needed to improve the quality of the College’s provision in essential skills, particularly leadership and management, the quality of teaching and learning in a significant minority of lessons, and in the outcomes in the essential skill of ICT.

In work-based learning, there is a need to improve the quality of the provision, particularly:

  • to provide more effective leadership and management of the work-based learning provision;
  • improve the quality of mechanical and manufacturing engineering which is inadequate;
  • expand the range of the provision, and in particular the numbers of learners registered on the ApprenticeshipsNI programme; and
  • to improve outcomes and achievements and progression rates to further education and training on the Programme-led Apprenticeship strand of Training for Success programme.

Northampton College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Train teachers to design and implement teaching and learning activities, particularly in theory lessons, that inspire and motivate students.
  • Ensure that teachers use the information they have about students’ prior achievements and progress to teach lessons that enable students to fulfil their potential and excel.
  • Help teachers understand fully the potential dangers, relevant to the local area and the subject they teach, that students and apprentices face from those who hold extremist views. Ensure that they use this information to develop students’ and apprentices’ understanding, so that they can keep themselves safe.
  • Increase the proportion of apprentices who achieve their qualification within the planned timescale by:
    • making sure that assessors plan learning programmes for apprentices that consider their prior knowledge and potential
    • planning sufficiently frequent assessor visits so that apprentices receive training, assessment, feedback and targets to help them make rapid progress, and ensure that employers know what it is that apprentices need to improve so that they can support them at work
    • checking that managers and assessors monitor apprentices’ progress frequently and that they intervene rapidly when apprentices’ progress slows
    • helping apprentices to improve their written English by correcting spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors and giving apprentices strategies to help them improve these skills.

Report Recommendations

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