What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders should ensure that employers are routinely involved in the planning of on- and off-the-job training and reviews of their apprentices to support apprentices to make the progress of which they are capable.
- Leaders should identify what apprentices already know and can do at the start of their programme and use this information to ensure they plan a challenging and individualised curriculum.
- Leaders should review the curriculum for learners with high needs on the ‘choices’ programme to ensure it is challenging and prepares them for future learning or work.
- Leaders should ensure that they put appropriate actions in place to ensure learners with low attendance attend college regularly.
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Swiftly improve teaching, learning and assessment in subject areas judged as requiring improvement to ensure that all learners make the progress expected of them and successfully complete their learning programme. Ensure leaders and managers systematically and rigorously monitor underperforming provision to bring about sustained improvement.
- Share existing good practice in teaching, learning and assessment, such as in vocational science, so that they are consistently high across all subject areas.
- Increase the quality of provision in GCSE mathematics to ensure that all learners make good progress so that a greater proportion achieves a grade C or above. Ensure teachers acquire the skills needed to develop relevant vocational learning activities to enable learners to improve their mathematics skills.
- Improve the quality of teachers’ written feedback to help learners understand exactly what they need to do to improve. Consistently monitor learners’ progress against challenging targets to ensure they reach their full potential.
Areas for improvement
The college should address:
- low success rates in work-based learning
- insufficient progress made by General Certificate of Education (GCE) A level students
- underdeveloped strategic and operational management of adult and community learning.
Areas for improvement
The college should address:
- low success rates on a minority of GCE and work-based learning courses
- insufficient information about enrichment opportunities for some learners
What should be improved
- some dull and unimaginative teaching
- provision for students aged 16 to 18 at level 2
- inconsistencies in the implementation of key skills
- promotion of equal opportunities throughout the college
- extent of staff involvement in the self-assessment process
- some crowded accommodation.
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