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Inspection Report Recommendations

Westminster Kingsway College

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.

Weston College

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the college need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that managers and teachers take effective action to improve the small minority of underperforming courses, especially in the GCE AS- and A-level provision.

Weymouth College

2015 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that all learners gain the necessary qualifications in English and mathematics by checking they attend all their English and mathematics lessons, and they benefit from teachers fully integrating both English and mathematics into vocational lessons. Raise the profile and importance of learners achieving qualifications in English and mathematics by working with employers and parents.
  • Provide further development for staff teams in subjects which are not yet good and ensure that they learn from higher-performing teams within the college.
  • Develop managers’ skills in assessing the quality of teaching, learning and assessment using a wide range of indicators in addition to annual lesson observations. Monitor the quality of assessor practice for apprentices and the impact of additional learning support. Encourage teachers to reflect regularly on their practice.

Wigan & Leigh College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should rapidly improve the few programmes that are underperforming, including level 3 animal management, so that learners and apprentices benefit from an ambitious curriculum and make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that apprentices and learners with high needs receive independent information, advice and guidance about their chosen pathways and potential career opportunities so that they can make informed, long-term career choices.
  • Leaders and managers should plan a personal development curriculum that apprentices can participate in and benefit from.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that apprentices develop a good understanding of radicalisation and extremism and how it applies to them while at work and in their personal lives.

Wilberforce College

2015 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Plan tasks and activities for students to complete in lessons and independently that take account of their different abilities and ensure the most able acquire and practise the knowledge and skills needed to produce higher standards of work.
  • Use the data on students’ prior achievement more carefully to set clear and aspirational targets that help motivate students to achieve their full potential.
  • Share existing good practice in teaching, learning and assessment between teachers and assessors to increase the proportion of outstanding teaching. Support teachers to develop teaching and learning strategies so that more students achieve their full potential and make excellent progress. Ensure managers monitor the effectiveness of teaching, learning and assessment strategies that teachers use to help students achieve their targets.
  • Extend the range of work-related activities and external work-experience opportunities so that more students develop employability skills.
  • Strengthen the arrangements to monitor attendance and provide support and challenge to students so that they attend more regularly and realise their full potential.
  • Monitor the rigour of subject-level self-assessment so that areas for improvement are identified accurately and link clearly to the college quality improvement plan.
  • Sustain the improvement in success rates and improve the provision where it is not yet good by continuing to rigorously monitor performance and intervene where necessary

William Morris Sixth Form College

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the school need to do to improve?
  • There are limited opportunities for students to participate in extra-curricular activities. Some students are not involved in school activities beyond their lessons. Leaders should ensure that they implement their plans to increase the range of enrichment opportunities so that all students broaden their interests and develop new skills and talents beyond the subjects they study.
  • Some students do not attend school as regularly as they should. Leaders’ recently revised systems for encouraging regular attendance are in the early stages of showing impact. Leaders should ensure that processes for following up student absence are fully embedded so that students’ overall attendance improves.

Wiltshire College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the quality of the curriculum, work placements and specialist support for learners with high needs.
  • Ensure that young learners attend their English and mathematics lessons and ensure that the actions taken lead to greater achievement in these qualifications.
  • Make sure that all learners and apprentices receive coherently planned and well-taught personal development as part of their curriculum, including effective careers guidance for all adult learners and learners with high needs.
  • Involve employers more comprehensively in the design and implementation of all curriculums.

Windsor Forest Colleges Group

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that managers in the weaker subject areas make more rapid improvements so that all learners and apprentices, including learners with high needs on specialist provision, benefit from a good quality of education.
  • Leaders and managers should improve attendance and punctuality so that all learners and apprentices make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that apprenticeship staff inform apprentices at an earlier stage of the requirements of the end-point assessments. Staff must support apprentices to achieve merits or distinctions and ensure the development of English skills throughout their programmes.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that all learners benefit from an appropriate range of work-related encounters, including high-quality and meaningful work experience placements, so that learners can gain a good insight and develop appropriate new skills.

Winstanley College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Review the quality and appropriateness of the advice and guidance for students who transfer to the mixed programme or to one-year A-level courses to ensure that students understand fully what is involved and the opportunities available to them when they leave the college.
  • Ensure that teachers on vocational courses have sufficient opportunities to gain appropriate industrial updates that provide them with current and accurate information and industry examples that inform the content of what they teach.
  • Ensure that actions to improve the very few underperforming A-level courses raise standards in these subjects rapidly to ensure that students on these courses receive a high quality of education.
  • Increase the proportion of students who take part in work experience relevant to their career ambitions to ensure that they understand fully what they are working towards and whether it meets their expectations.
  • Ensure that leaders and managers provide clear information to students so that they fully understand British values and the dangers posed by those with radical and extremist views where they live.

Wirral Metropolitan College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Rapidly increase the proportion of apprentices who complete their programme by their planned end date by:
    • ensuring that the college has reliable systems for checking apprentices’ progress, thus enabling effective action to be taken when apprentices’ progress is slow
    • taking into account apprentices’ prior knowledge and skills when planning learning and training to enable apprentices to acquire new skills and knowledge at a level of which they are capable
    • setting apprentices clear, detailed targets and ensuring that reviews are thorough and accurate so that apprentices know what progress they have made and what they need to improve further.
  • Improve further the English and mathematics skills of students, apprentices and trainees by planning lessons and activities which take into account the levels they have already reached in these subjects to extend their learning.
  • Improve the proportion of students who achieve GCSEs in mathematics and English at grades A* to C and 9 to 4.
  • Use the information on students’ starting points to plan lessons that enable all students to make the progress of which they are capable, in particular for the most able students and those on 16 to 19 study programmes at level 3.
  • Ensure that all students and apprentices have a good understanding of the risks associated with extremism and radicalisation.

Worcester Sixth Form College

2012 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Increase the proportion of outstanding lessons through meeting the learning needs of all students and by improving their motivation. Ensure that all students are fully engaged in learning and progressing well.
  • Use the full range of information about students, including initial and course assessment, to plan activities, which meet their individual needs. Ensure that all students have the language, literacy, numeracy and personal skills to participate fully in planned activities to achieve their potential.
  • Monitor students’ progress and achievement consistently across the college so that staff identify promptly those at risk of non-completion or underachievement and provide the appropriate support or curriculum. Senior managers should support middle managers to ensure consistency in standards across all subject areas.
  • Research and identify the reasons for the underachievement of male students and put in place the appropriate measures to raise their achievement.
  • Share the good practice in teaching teams especially in engaging students in teaching and learning, the use of information learning technology and the virtual learning environment, and promotion of equality and diversity in lessons. Learn from best practice within the further education sector particularly in relation to the needs of students on vocational programmes.
  • Strengthen and implement fully the revised arrangements for management of the performance of staff including the observation of teaching and learning. Use data and information better to set targets for improvement, which are more challenging.

Workers' Educational Association

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Reduce the regional variations which exist in achievement.
  • Improve lesson observation summaries to ensure that the differences between good and outstanding teaching, learning and assessment are clear and distinguishable.
  • Build upon the better practices in information, advice and guidance to inform overall improvement.
  • Sharpen target setting for students.
  • Instigate professional development to embed the improvements needed to move from good to outstanding.
  • Employ more modern techniques to enhance learning, capture data and attract new members with new ideas into the organisation from an even greater range of backgrounds.

Working Men's College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Eliminate the small amount of teaching, learning and assessment that is not of a high standard, by ensuring that teachers:
    • set and agree demanding targets with the most able learners that extend their skills and knowledge further
    • make effective use of information on learners’ starting points to plan and measure learners’ ongoing progress
    • provide learners on ESOL programmes with good opportunities to scrutinise and correct their own work for spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors.
  • Ensure that leaders and managers have detailed information on learners’ next steps to inform their planning of the curriculum, by:
    • systematically collecting information on the programmes learners choose to follow when they complete their current programmes
    • understanding how learners’ current programme choices influence the programme(s) they choose in the future.

Worthing 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.

Writtle University College

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Increase the number of outstanding lessons by tutors making full use of learner’s initial assessment results, target grades and personal development targets when planning lessons. Support tutors to develop their skills to plan lessons that challenge and inspire learners.
  • Ensure targets in tutorials and progress reviews are specific and enable learners and apprentices to achieve their full potential by the end of their course and in lessons. Continue to develop the measuring of learners’ progress to help set them challenging targets. Regularly monitor the quality of target setting to ensure it becomes more effective at enabling learners and apprentices to reach their potential.
  • Develop further the use of ILT to help learners become more independent and extend their skills and knowledge outside of the classroom.
  • Develop the skills of lesson observers further to ensure that they consistently report on what skills and knowledge learners develop rather than focusing too much on the standards of teaching. Monitor the quality of lesson observers’ practice through collaborative working and reviewing lesson observation reports.
  • Extend and apply quality assurance procedures to cover all aspects of apprenticeship provision.
  • Improve the collection of data on learners’ progression to reduce the proportion of unknown destinations and ensure the curriculum continues to meet the skills needs of local and regional industries.

Wyggeston & Queen Elizabeth I College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should review the level 1 and level 2 curriculum to ensure that it fulfils its purpose and that teachers are ambitious, teach topics in enough depth and use assessment well to develop students’ knowledge and skills.
  • Leaders should strengthen arrangements for providing and monitoring the effectiveness of support for students who have additional learning needs or who experience other barriers to success.
  • Leaders should work with teachers and other staff to improve responses to low attendance.
  • Vocational teachers should work to strengthen links with local employers and use these links to ensure that all their students benefit from relevant and well-planned work experience.
  • Managers should work with staff to enhance the tutorial programme so that it provides students with opportunities to consider in detail topics that will help them to stay fit and healthy and to participate as active and informed citizens.
  • Managers should review lesson observation processes to ensure that they complement the range of other quality assurance activities and help teachers to understand how their teaching practices may affect learning.

Wyke Sixth Form College

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve teaching, learning and assessment across all provision by ensuring that all teachers develop a wider range of learning strategies that fully engage students and promote their independent learning skills. Share the college’s best practice to develop all teachers’ skills and to raise standards of teaching, learning and assessment from good to outstanding.
  • Tackle the remaining underperformance in the few weaker subjects and in doing so increase the proportion of higher grades at GCE A level so that they exceed national benchmarks. Share the best practice within the college to allow more rapid improvement in these areas so that all students benefit from high-quality lessons that enable them to make the progress needed to achieve their potential.
  • Ensure quality assurance systems are applied consistently in all subject areas to tackle underperformance and enable high-quality delivery across all college provision. Make sure that the lesson observation system always indicates what teachers need to do to improve and is linked to both the appraisal process and staff training and development.
  • Provide further development opportunities to help teachers to promote equality and diversity successfully in their lessons so that students develop a wider and deeper understanding of these issues. Use the lesson observation system more effectively to monitor how this aspect of teaching and learning is being developed.

Xaverian College

2008 Full Inspection Report
Areas for improvement

The college should address:

  • retention on level 2 courses
  • identification of the strengths and weaknesses in teaching and learning to inform individual and cross-college staff development.

Yeovil College

2016 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that improvements in teaching, learning and assessment lead to improved outcomes in the minority of areas in which too few learners achieve their qualifications.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all teachers use relevant activities to capture learners’ interest and check learners’ understanding in order to ensure that learners consistently make progress and produce work of a high standard.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that staff use information about AS- and A-level learners’ prior achievements more effectively to set these learners targets to achieve the grades of which they are capable and ensure that their standards of work are consistently high.

York College

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does York College need to do to improve further?
  • Take swift action to reverse the low success rates on foundation and intermediate qualifications in English and mathematics, so that students on those courses achieve to the same high standards as students in the rest of the college.
  • Improve the quality of the few lessons that require improvement by ensuring that tutors make better use of all of the available information about students to plan learning to meet individual needs.

Yorkshire & Humber Institute of Technology

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does York College need to do to improve further?
  • Take action to improve the quality of education in GCSE English and ensure that the proportion of learners who achieve a grade 4 or higher improves.
  • Ensure that feedback following assessments of learners’ and apprentices’ work makes it clear to them what they need to do to improve their work and make progress.
  • Ensure that the attendance of learners continues to improve, particularly where it remains low, such as on a few adult learning courses and on GCSE English and mathematics courses.
  • Take swift and effective action to deal with any further incidents of inappropriate behaviour of learners and ensure that all learners behave well and are respectful to their peers.

Report Recommendations

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