What does the provider need to do to improve further?
Improve provision for learners with high needs by:
ensuring that teachers of vocational subjects use the detailed information available to them to plan and adapt activities to meet fully the needs of learners with high needs
ensuring that learners are involved fully in setting their personal development targets so they make good progress in becoming more independent and self-confident.
Continue to improve achievement rates in level 2 functional mathematics and on the very small minority of underperforming courses.
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
Improve the consistency with which teachers reinforce learners’ understanding of English and mathematics so that learners can make quicker progress.
Develop more effective on-the-job training for all apprentices by planning the provision with employers for the whole apprenticeship programme and ensuring that mentors are present in the workplace to contribute to assessment and provide more guidance for learners between assessment visits.
Improve attendance by ensuring that all teachers reinforce the importance of good attendance more rigorously.
Ensure that targets for teachers, which have been agreed through performance review, are clearly related to increasing the proportion of outstanding teaching, learning and assessment.
Ensure that teachers of learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities receive appropriate training so that they are ready to provide good specialist support for the increasing number of learners with complex needs.
Promote learners’ understanding and tolerance of diversity within their lessons by sharing more fully the excellent practice that exists in parts of the college.