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2010 Full Inspection Report

What does Salford City College need to do to improve further?

• Improve success rates on AS-level and Skills for Life courses. Ensure that success rates in all subject areas are consistently high. Improve the progress students make on the minority of advanced-level courses where value-added scores are low.
• Improve support and progress review arrangements on employer-responsive provision by the better structuring of literacy and numeracy support, the inclusion of wider welfare issues and better target setting for learners.
• Continue to improve the quality of teaching and learning through sharing good practice and moderating the observations of teaching and learning. Extend the observations of employer-responsive provision to include all aspects of learning.
• Tackle the variability and underdevelopment of quality assurance arrangements in a few areas, including employer-responsive provision, so that they are consistent across the college.

2004 Full Inspection Report

What should be improved

• retention rates on a minority of courses
• poor accommodation at the De la Salle Centre
• the rigour of quality assurance in a few curriculum areas
• aspects of the provision of key skills for students aged 16 to 18.