What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders and managers must ensure that teachers and assessors set challenging curriculums for students and apprentices so that they develop new skills and knowledge swiftly, make good progress and gain their qualifications.
- Leaders and managers must ensure that students and apprentices attend their lessons, including English and mathematics lessons, frequently so that they benefit from high-quality teaching.
- Leaders and managers must ensure that teachers and assessors provide students and apprentices with helpful feedback on their work so that they understand what they do well and what they need to do to improve.
- Leaders and managers must ensure that teachers and assessors are well trained so that they can use appropriate teaching strategies and provide effective support for students and apprentices with high needs, including monitoring progress against targets from students’ education, health and care plans.
- Leaders and managers must ensure that students and apprentices develop their English and mathematics knowledge and that those students and apprentices who require qualifications in English and mathematics are prepared well for their examinations.
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Ensure that more students complete their courses successfully, especially those in horticulture and landscaping.
- Strengthen its approaches to evaluating the quality of teaching and learning so that areas for improvement are more clearly identified, and ensure that the outcomes of these systems contribute more fully to performance management.
- Develop more effective use of information and learning technology (ILT) to support learning by ensuring that all students have access to suitably programmed computers and that all teachers make good use of the college’s virtual learning environment.
- Improve the use of data regarding students’ performance at all levels to ensure that challenging targets for improvement are set and achieved.
- Fully implement the computer-based attendance monitoring system across all provision to improve the efficient monitoring of students’ attendance at lessons, and use this important performance indicator more fully to evaluate the quality of provision.
Areas for improvement
The college should address:
- success rates for students aged 16-18 at level 3
- the use of information learning technology (ILT) to support learning across all areas of the curriculum
- the integration of key skills with vocational qualifications
- the effectiveness of group tutorials
- the reliability of lesson observations
- the precision of self-assessment, action planning and target-setting.
What should be improved
- teaching, learning and attainment for students aged 16 to 18
- retention rates and achievement on some courses for students aged 16 to 18
- consistency of assessment and verification practice
- poor quality of equine studies provision
- consistency of management of health and safety
- completeness of quality assurance arrangements.
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