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Inspection Report Recommendations

Cirencester College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should improve teaching, learning and assessment by ensuring that teachers:
    • plan learning that supports students who are least able and challenges those most able.
    • check students’ knowledge and understanding effectively before moving on to new learning
    • ensure that students capture and record their learning to help their future progress
    • share more widely the best practice that exists within the college.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all A-level students who plan to move into employment or apprenticeships undertake a relevant external work placement.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that teachers and assessors enable students on level 2 vocational courses and intermediate apprentices to make good progress and complete their programmes within planned timescales.

City & Islington 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.

City College Norwich

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.

City College Peterborough

2011 Full Inspection Report
What does Peterborough City Council need to do to improve further?
  • Improve outcomes for apprentices by setting challenging targets for learners and monitoring them closely to ensure that qualifications are completed within the planned timescale.
  • Raise the standards of teaching and learning from good to outstanding by extending the coaching and mentoring arrangements to include all tutors.

City College Plymouth

2012 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Develop a more rigorous approach to observing lessons and sharing best practice so that the proportion of outstanding lessons increases.
  • Secure consistently rigorous standards in lesson observations, performance management and self-assessment through strengthening moderation and validation processes and sharing best practice.
  • Develop challenging targets for the minority of under-performing courses and share good practice from courses where improvements in learners’ progress have been made to ensure all learners make the expected progress.
  • Use the outcomes from initial assessment to inform lesson planning so that all learners meet or exceed their potential.
  • Better plan the deployment of learning support assistants in lessons so that all learners derive the maximum benefit from the support.  Provide sufficient opportunities for all learners to develop their English and mathematical skills to a higher level.
  • Provide governors with more detailed reporting and the training support needed to enable them to monitor learners’ outcomes and the quality of teaching and learning more rigorously.

City College Southampton

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Senior leaders must set clear expectations for managers and staff and give them the knowledge, support and appropriate accountability for making rapid improvements to the quality of education.
  • Managers must ensure that apprentices’ learning plans take account of individual starting points and better link off- and on-the-job learning, to enable them to make the swifter progress of which they are capable.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that students understand how the personal development curriculum relates to their own lives and situations.
  • Teachers must provide all students and apprentices with clear and timely feedback so they can use this to improve their work and skills.
  • Leaders and managers should review delivery of the internship programme for students with high needs so that they benefit from high-quality work experience.
  • Leaders and managers should improve advice and guidance for students on education programmes for young people to ensure that they are effectively supported for transition into the workplace.

City Literary Institute

2016 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Eradicate the minority of teaching, learning and assessment that is not of a high enough standard, and ensure that learners make good progress by:
    • ensuring that teachers agree more stretching targets for most-able learners that extend their skills and knowledge further
    • ensuring that learners on ESOL programmes have sufficient opportunity in lessons to practise accurately their spoken English
    • ensuring that teachers direct the work of learning assistants more closely and check the learning and understanding more thoroughly for those learners who require additional help with their studies.

City of Bristol College

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase the number of learners who benefit from work-related activity and/or formal work experience.
  • Provide a comprehensive personal development programme for all students and apprentices.
  • Improve the quality and range of impartial careers information, advice and guidance.
  • Enhance quality assurance to focus more on the quality of education.
  • Ensure that all staff get the professional development they need to improve their practice so that they better understand how to support learners with high needs and provide more useful feedback for students and apprentices.

City of Glasgow College

2018 Full Inspection Report
Areas for Development
  • Although the College’s Gender action plan has been implemented it has not yet resulted in appropriate balance across all programmes.
  • The College recognise a need to further examine the success rates for FT HE Care Experienced students, as they are lower than the latest national comparator.
  • In FT FE there has been a decline in student retention which has affected attainment.
  • The College recognises there is a need to develop a digital transformation model which harnesses new technologies to enhance pedagogy, improve services and support the lifelong learning experience.
  • There is a need to re-enforce work based learning as part of Curriculum Planning.
  • There is a need for a more consistent approach to sharing pedagogical practice which will be developed as part of the College’s shared teaching practice approach
  • The College has identified a need with regional colleagues to examine further the factors contributing to attainment rates for Senior Phase students.
  • The College has identified a need from its analysis of the College and wider college sector to reorganise its management structure to continue to deliver a high quality student experience which meet the aims and aspirations of its strategic plan.

City of Liverpool College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should bring about rapid improvements in the quality of apprenticeships so that apprentices achieve by their planned end date by:
    • ensuring that the off-the-job training for apprentices is planned with employers and recorded accurately, taking into account the knowledge and skills that apprentices already have
    • ensuring that teachers and assessors improve the progress apprentices make by planning their lessons and reviews so that activities are ambitious, interesting and relevant.
  • Teachers should ensure that they set suitably demanding work for learners. In particular, teachers should ensure that they challenge the most-able learners to achieve the grades of which they are capable.
  • Leaders, managers and staff should continue to focus their improvement strategies on underperforming courses. They should continue to increase the proportion of learners achieving their qualifications, including GCSEs at grades A* to C or grades 9 to 4 in English and mathematics.

City of Portsmouth College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Review the arrangements for evaluating the quality and impact of teaching so that managers focus more closely on assessing students’ progress and the standards of their work.
  • Ensure that self-assessment and quality improvement plans identify more precisely what needs to be done, and how to do it, to bring about improvements.
  • Make sure that students’ attendance at classroom-based lessons improves rapidly.
  • Ensure that teachers and assessors place a much stronger emphasis on developing and applying students’ skills in English and mathematics in all subject areas.
  • Confirm that all students have a good understanding of British values and how these relate to their lives.
  • Improve teaching, learning and assessment by:
    • making sure that teachers and assessors use the information gathered about students from assessment activities to plan and teach lessons that set high expectations for students and meet their individual learning needs
    • ensuring that teachers and assessors make effective use of methods to monitor and track students’ progress and quickly identify students or apprentices falling behind so that support and interventions can be rapidly put in place
    • ensuring that students receive feedback that enables them to understand what they have done well and what they need to do to improve their work.

City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College

2015 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that the good teaching and learning in the college this year result in improved success rates, most importantly for AS-level students; ensure that a higher proportion of A-level students achieve high grades, making the progress of which they are capable.
  • Increase the amount of outstanding teaching and learning by ensuring teachers use their good understanding of students’ abilities and needs to provide sufficiently interesting and high levels of challenging activities, so that all students’ knowledge is extended fully and they make good progress.
  • Ensure that all A-level students have the opportunity to engage in purposeful external work experience, so that they develop further, career-related work skills and to enhance their already varied learning experiences at college.
  • Ensure that leaders’ and managers’ progress monitoring of action plans from self-assessment, consistently judges the impact of actions taken, in order to improve outcomes for students.

City of Westminster College

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.

City of Wolverhampton College

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should continue to improve the quality of education that apprentices receive, to ensure that they complete their apprenticeship successfully and achieve grades of which they are capable.
  • Managers should ensure that learners studying English and mathematics attend their lessons more frequently, in order to improve their knowledge and skills development, so that they achieve their very best in these qualifications.
  • Leaders and managers should improve the tracking of skills and behaviours of learners with high needs who are on discrete employability courses. They need to ensure that teachers plan and monitor the skills learners develop in preparation for their next steps.
  • Leaders, managers and teachers should ensure that all learners and apprentices receive feedback which is clear and developmental so that learners and apprentices improve the standard of their work over time.
  • Leaders should ensure that all learners and apprentices are aware of the range of opportunities available to them after they complete their studies so that they can make suitably informed decisions for their futures.

Clarendon Sixth Form College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve attendance rates, particularly in English and mathematics lessons for adults and for a minority of study-programme learners, by ensuring that teachers promote the importance of attendance effectively and managers follow up absenteeism assiduously to ensure that all students attend their lessons regularly and promptly.
  • Leaders and managers should address the weaknesses in teaching, learning and assessment in the subject areas where performance is persistently low. Teachers and assessors should plan learning carefully by taking into account the starting points of their students and apprentices so that learning activities challenge them and extend their knowledge, skills and understanding.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that assessors and employers carefully review the progress that apprentices make on electro-technical programmes, and joinery and accounting courses and swiftly make the necessary interventions where they do not make the expected progress.

Colchester Institute

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that level 1 students receive effective careers education, information, advice and guidance to plan their next steps.
  • Leaders must provide high needs training for vocational teachers so that they can provide effective support to students.
  • Teachers must consistently develop students’ English skills. Teachers must ensure that students produce high-quality written work.

Colchester Sixth Form College

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Through staff development and the internal lesson observation process, focus on enabling learners of different abilities to progress in all lessons according to their potential. Ensure that learners who work at a slower pace have sufficient support to help them make good progress and not be left behind by a fast pace of learning. Provide more challenging activities to extend the more able learners who have completed their learning activities and who are ready to further their learning.
  • Increase the priority given in lessons to developing learners’ English and mathematics skills in a wide variety of contexts.
  • Disseminate the good practice evident in certain areas of the college in promoting equality and diversity appropriately in lessons to teachers in other areas of the college. Ensure that all teachers have the skills and understanding of a wide range of matters related to equality and diversity so that they can, with confidence, address issues raised during lessons and increase learners’ awareness and understanding of such issues.
  • Ensure that teachers in all areas of the college develop the population, interactivity and use of their VLEs to support and enliven learning to match the high standards of the best practice exhibited in other parts of the college.
  • Address the issue of overcrowding in many of the college spaces so that staff and learners can work in areas more conducive to study and learning and that they are enabled to move more safely.
  • Improve the self-critical nature of the self-assessment report. Ensure the thorough analysis of the full range of college-wide data to inform key areas for improvement and required actions. Prioritise the key areas for improvement identified at all levels in the college.
  • Improve the quality of the action plans and targets which emanate from the self-assessment process. Establish a set of key performance indicators that enable governors and senior managers to monitor and drive improvements throughout the academic year.

Coleg Cambria

2019 Full Inspection Report
Recommendations
  1. Reduce the number of learners who take longer to complete their programmes than scheduled
  2. Evaluate the impact of the work undertaken on radicalisation and extremism to inform future planning
  3. Increase the use of Welsh as a workplace skill

Coleg Ceredigion

2022 Full Inspection Report
Recommendations
  1. Make better use of the extensive data the college has to further refine the evaluation of the impact of provision and initiatives
  2. Strengthen strategies to improve learners’ understanding of radicalisation and extremism
  3. Ensure that learners’ numeracy skills and wider mathematical skills are developed fully to address their skills gaps

Coleg Gwent

2018 Full Inspection Report
Recommendations
  1. Improve the quality of teaching so that every teacher engages and challenges all learners to achieve their full potential
  2. Evaluate the impact of teaching and training relating to radicalisation and extremism
  3. Improve the rigour and accuracy of self-evaluation

Coleg Sir Benfro

2017 Full Inspection Report
Recommendations
  1. Ensure that learning activities provide sufficient challenge for learners of all abilities, enabling them to attain the highest grades they can
  2. Ensure that learners develop their literacy and numeracy skills across the full breadth of their learning programmes
  3. Make sure that targets for learners, including those for skills, are specific, challenging and measureable, and regularly reviewed
  4. Ensure that self-assessment is concise, evaluative and well informed by an appropriate range of data

Coleg Sir Gâr

2022 Full Inspection Report
Recommendations
  1. Make better use of the extensive data the college has to further refine the evaluation of the impact of provision and initiatives
  2. Strengthen strategies to improve learners’ understanding of radicalisation and extremism
  3. Ensure that learners’ numeracy skills and wider mathematical skills are developed fully to address their skills gaps

Coleg y Cymoedd

2017 Full Inspection Report
Recommendations
  1. Improve standards and outcomes achieved by learners on AS and A level courses
  2. Improve the rate at which learners successfully complete vocational qualifications across all learning areas
  3. Increase the use of the Welsh language by learners and staff
  4. Make sure that teaching strategies engage and challenge all learners
  5. Make sure that all teachers support learners to develop their literacy, numeracy and digital literacy skills
  6. Make sure that quality assurance arrangements are robust and effective across all areas of provision

College of Agriculture, Food & Rural Enterprise

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development need to do to improve further?

The College should continue to work to identify and share the outstanding practice in the organisation to further improve the quality of teaching, training and learning across all aspects of its provision.

College of Animal Welfare

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers need to ensure that workplace supervisors of apprentices on level 3 veterinary nursing fully understand their role. Leaders need to have effective, ongoing communication with workplace supervisors to ensure that supervisors provide good support to apprentices to complete their qualifications.
  • Senior leaders need to ensure that apprentices receive ongoing impartial career advice and guidance to enable apprentices to consider the full range of career options available to them.

Report Recommendations

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