Ensure that all learners receive useful careers information and guidance to understand how to achieve their long-term career goals.
Ensure that learners who need to gain a GCSE mathematics qualification are swiftly able to join courses.
Ensure that all staff receive sufficient training on effective assessment methods so that they can check accurately how well learners and apprentices retain new learning and transfer this to their long-term memory.
Improve the attendance of learners so that they attend their courses well.
Leaders and managers need to ensure that those learners with complex high needs receive the additional support that will enable them to have the best chance for success. This includes the use of specialists in speech and language development. Leaders and managers need to ensure that vocational teachers and in-class support staff communicate effectively with each other the ongoing needs of learners.
Leaders and managers need to ensure that adult learners, particularly those on part-time and distance learning programmes, understand how to keep themselves safe from the risks of radicalisation, and online. They must ensure that staff develop adult learners’ understanding of how British values relate to them and their everyday lives.
Leaders need to ensure that teachers use learning from all parts of the programme, including work experience, to enable learners to retain and develop their knowledge and skills more securely over time.
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
Increase the range of techniques used in observations of teaching and learning to better capture learning in the vocational settings and identify more clearly what teachers need to do to improve learning and assessment.
Further improve teaching at the college by:
increasing the level of challenge for the more able students in lessons
paying greater attention to improving students and apprentices spelling and punctuation in their written assignments
promoting and integrating equality and diversity more consistently in the curriculum.