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Inspection Report Recommendations

Northern Regional College

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the Northern Regional College need to do to improve further?

There is a need to improve the quality of the provision, in particular the College should work to:

  1. Establish more robust strategic quality improvement planning processes to inform more effectively curriculum planning across the College. The curriculum for the Training for Success provision in work-based learning needs to be urgently reviewed, in particular to address the significant areas for improvement in the current curriculum offer for the majority of the Programme-Led Apprentices.
  2. Address the inadequate leadership and management and overall standards and achievements in work-based learning, particularly the Training for Success provision, and also take action to improve the satisfactory or inadequate overall quality of the provision for brickwork, electrical installation, plumbing and wood occupations.
  3. Improve the quality of the provision for the essential skills across the College, with a particular focus on the quality of teaching and learning, and standards and outcomes in this area.
  4. Implement an effective quality improvement planning process to address learners’ underachievement, which is underpinned by accurate and reliable data and informed by a more effective process of self-evaluation. The College needs to ensure that managers are clear about the fundamental importance of outcomes for learners in their areas of responsibility, and that they are implementing effective strategies to tackle shortcomings in performance.
  5. Build on the particularly good practice which exists in engineering, and a few other professional and technical areas, in order to broaden further the extent and impact of economic engagement across the College.

Northern School of Art

2009 Full Inspection Report
Areas for improvement

The college should address:

  • lower retention on a small minority of courses
  • deficiencies in accommodation at the Burlam Road site.

Northumberland 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.

Nottingham College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that learners with high needs who study vocational courses benefit from appropriate, bespoke support that meets their needs well.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all young learners and apprentices achieve their courses well, particularly those who study at level 2.

Oaklands College

2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders must develop robust and accurate processes to identify weaknesses in their apprenticeship provision. They must then take decisive action to ensure that employers and apprentices benefit from high-quality training which is relevant to their job roles.
  • Leaders must ensure that apprentices and adults benefit from ongoing high-quality careers advice and guidance, so that they understand and know how to achieve the job roles and careers they seek upon completion of their courses.
  • Leaders must ensure that learners on the supported internship course benefit from meaningful work experience placements that reflect their needs and interests. Learners must be enabled to develop the skills they require to gain sustainable jobs that interest them.
  • Leaders must ensure that learners who require occupational and physiotherapy services have access to them in a timely way and become independent learners.
  • Leaders must ensure that apprentices understand how the radical views and extremist behaviour of others may impact on their personal and working lives. Apprentices need to understand that the work they do may result in them being at risk from terrorist activity.

Oldham College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve attendance rates across all courses, particularly in English and mathematics lessons for 16- to 18-year-old learners and adults, so that they are aligned to college targets. Ensure that all learners attend punctually.
  • Improve the rigour of improvement strategies, so that leaders, managers and governors bring about a rapid improvement in the small number of subject areas that are still performing below expected standards.
  • Improve further the quality of teaching, learning and assessment, by ensuring that the most able learners achieve the high grades of which they are capable.
  • Improve the qualification outcomes for learners on GCSE English and mathematics courses to ensure that learners improve their grades and achieve the high grades that they will need for the next stages in their learning, training or employment.

Oldham Sixth Form College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should raise expectations so that all students gain the detailed knowledge they require for their next steps and are challenged to achieve their highest potential.
  • Leaders should ensure that all teachers focus on ensuring that students have sufficient knowledge in advance of assessments so that more students pass their assessments on their first attempt.
  • Leaders should ensure that staff monitor the progress of students with high needs towards their wider education and health care plan outcomes so that students are fully equipped with all of the knowledge and behaviours required for independence.

On Course South West

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Check that senior leaders at Discovery College monitor all aspects of the study programmes, so that all young learners are taught the personal development programme and teachers use assessments to help these learners improve the standard of their work.
  • Ensure that local employers’ views and needs are represented on the adult education board.
  • In adult learning programmes, teach the personal skills that learners need on courses that aim to help learners progress to higher level courses at other institutions. Also, assess the impact that the well-being courses have on learners’ well-being.
  • Provide vocational teachers with the opportunity to update their vocational competence regularly.

Paston College

2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Teachers must ensure that students develop good English skills. Teachers need to ensure that students produce written work of a high quality.
  • Leaders need to ensure that teachers place sufficient emphasis on ESOL students developing good spoken English so they can express their views clearly and assimilate into their community effectively.
  • Leaders need to ensure that apprentices receive good, impartial careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG) to enable them to progress to their next steps and understand the breadth of career opportunities open to them.

Peter Symonds College

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

Leaders and managers have designed and developed a challenging curriculum that enables students to achieve and often exceed expectations. They evaluate the curriculum regularly to ensure that it increases students’ chances of progressing to the best universities or gaining employment. For example, they introduced new vocational courses in law, medical science and criminology to the curriculum to enable students to enter careers in allied professions.

Peterborough College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders and managers need to rapidly improve the proportion of learners who pass their qualifications by ensuring that:
    • significantly more learners achieve the high-grade passes that their prior attainment suggests they are capable of, rather than just passing their qualifications
    • teachers and managers closely monitor the progress of learners and intervene appropriately when learners fail to meet their deadlines
    • managers support teachers to improve their teaching practice quickly so that more learners stay at college and enjoy their learning
    • learners of all ages attend their classes.
  • Improve the monitoring of learners’ next steps to better understand the impact courses have on the lives and future careers of learners.
  • Provide good-quality careers advice for learners so that they can make informed and timely choices about their next steps.
  • Ensure that learners with high needs develop their independent living skills to enable them to participate fully in college life and their community.

Petroc College of Further & Higher Education

2012 Full Inspection Report
What does PETROC need to do to improve further?
  • Improve success rates on some intermediate-level courses and apprenticeship programmes by spreading the good practice to improve retention and progress observed in other areas of the college.
  • Improve the quality of teaching and learning by ensuring that teachers promote equality and diversity issues more consistently in lessons.
  • Ensure all students attain the highest possible standards through the use of more challenging targets, both in the classroom and in individual progress reviews, and by involving employers more closely in work-based learners’ progress reviews.

Plumpton College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Accelerate plans to introduce independent careers guidance. Ensure that all learners have access to impartial information, advice and guidance at all stages of their course so that they can plan their next steps better informed about all options.
  • Make theory lessons in a small minority of areas more interesting and informative so learners gain new knowledge and understanding more rapidly and make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Improve the management of learners with high needs by:
    • ensuring that teachers use the good information available on learners to provide learning which will help each learner make better progress
    • helping learners improve their work further to reach their full potential
    • monitoring the progress of learners against their planned outcomes.

Plymouth College of Art

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Increase the proportion of outstanding teaching and learning by:
    • ensuring that teachers’ planning focuses more explicitly on what students need to learn and how they will develop their knowledge and understanding through the planned activities
    • making better use of questioning in lessons to challenge all students and extend their knowledge, so that they make the best possible progress
    • sharing existing best practice in providing detailed assessment feedback and setting students more precise improvement targets, so that they all know what to do to improve their work and achieve higher grades.
  • Implement fully the plans to ensure that students’ functional skills in English and mathematics are developed fully on all courses, and that those re-taking

Preston College

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that learners rapidly improve their skills in English and mathematics and significantly increase the number of learners who achieve high grades in these subjects.
  • Ensure that teachers and support staff plan and track the incremental steps that learners with high needs take towards attaining their EHCP outcomes. Teachers and support staff should help learners to recognise and celebrate the steps they take towards their longer-term goals.
  • Improve learners’ attendance, particularly on level 1 courses and in GCSE English and mathematics.

Priestley College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Teachers should plan learning activities that challenge students to extend their knowledge, skills and understanding so that all students achieve the grade of which they are capable.
  • Improve attendance rates, particularly on level 2 study programmes.
  • Ensure that all governors have sufficient understanding of further education to hold senior managers fully to account.

Prior Pursglove College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders and managers should use data more effectively to analyse the progress, performance and achievement of all students so that they can quickly identify any areas of concern and take rapid action to bring about improvements.
  • Leaders should take steps to close the gaps in the achievements of different groups of students who do not follow study programmes at level 3. In particular, they should ensure that:
    • students on study programmes at levels 1 and 2 and adults who have a recognised learning difficulty and/or disability receive the support that they need so that they achieve as well as their peers
    • the proportion of male students who achieve improves.
  • Governors and leaders should take effective action to resolve the remaining differences in the quality of provision and the outcomes for students at the two campuses by ensuring that good practice is shared effectively and areas of underperformance are dealt with swiftly. In particular, they should ensure that the proportion of students who remain on their courses at the Stockton campus continues to improve.

Queen Alexandra College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Governors must ensure that senior leaders have accurately identified the weaknesses for all curriculum pathways, and that their actions result in swift improvements.
  • Senior leaders must review the curriculum to ensure that it is aspirational for all students. They should ensure that they accurately identify pathways for students which will enable them to gain the skills they need to leave college when they are ready.
  • Senior leaders must ensure that they quickly improve the quality of teaching by:
    • ensuring that all teachers plan their teaching to reflect students’ starting points and their long-term goals as outlined in their education, health, and care plans
    • ensuring that all teachers sequence their teaching to develop students’ skills and knowledge relevant to their learning and support needs
    • ensuring that teachers provide helpful feedback to students on their practical and written work to ensure they achieve to the level of which they are capable.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all students receive impartial careers education, information, advice and guidance, and the training and support they need in preparation for adulthood.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that students are taught to understand the risks associated with relationships and harmful sexual behaviours. They should develop a curriculum which teaches students how to develop positive and healthy relationships, including sexual relationships.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all students benefit from well-planned and relevant work experience.

Queen Alexandra Sixth Form College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that a higher proportion of learners who have high needs and for whom employment is an appropriate next step progress into paid work when they leave the college.
  • Improve the attendance of learners where it is too low.
  • Ensure that assessors help apprentices in health and social care to develop the new knowledge that they need to be successful at work and in their apprenticeship.
  • Improve assessment in the few areas where it is not good enough so that lecturers have an accurate understanding of the knowledge that learners are missing and can use it to inform future teaching activities.

Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College

2012 Full Inspection Report
What does Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College need to do to improve further?
  • Monitor carefully the impact of actions to bring about greater consistency in the extent to which all learners make good or better progress against their prior attainment.
  • Extend the good and excellent practice in many lessons by ensuring all lesson observations focus enough on the extent to which learning is taking place.
  • Strengthen self-assessment by ensuring the quality-assurance strategy provides sufficient evidence on all key processes and by developing more incisive action planning.
  • Develop more extensive arrangements to promote the sharing of best practice to accelerate improvements in those subjects performing less well than the best.

Queen Mary's College

2022 Full Inspection Report
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.

Realise Futures

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Raise learner achievement and success rates by further improving teaching, learning and assessment through better planning of learning and strengthening of individual target setting to challenge learners.
  • Further develop the use of management information and data, refine their presentation and ensure the timely supply of information from subcontractors, to enable better decision-making.
  • Strengthen the use of information learning technology (ILT) by building on existing effective classroom practice and improving access to it in community settings.

Reaseheath College

2010 Full Inspection Report
What does Reaseheath College need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure learners achieve their full potential by increasing the proportion of high grades, reducing late transfers to less demanding courses, increasing the challenge in lessons and assignment work for more-able learners, providing more detailed feedback to learners on what they need to do to improve and improving the clarity of targets and actions set for learners.
  • Improve teaching and learning by increasing the rigour of the observation of teaching, ensuring action plans produced following observations include clear targets and actions on what teachers need to do to improve and monitoring the implementation of these action plans.
  • Ensure the range of the additionality and enrichment offer meets the needs of all learners, enrolments on additional qualifications are recorded in a timely way and outcomes are monitored.
  • More accurately judge learners’ outcomes and the quality of provision by ensuring success rates are recorded accurately.
  • Improve the measures to judge the impact of activities which aim to improve learners’ health and well-being and their contribution to the community, for example, by recording learner involvement, setting targets and monitoring progress.

Report Recommendations

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