What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Increase the proportion of learners who achieve their qualifications, where the quality of teaching is not consistently good, such as sports, engineering and hair and beauty.
- Increase the proportion of learners, including those with high needs, who attend external work experience opportunities.
- Involve more employers in the design of the curriculum.
- Ensure all teachers check learners’ understanding thoroughly and effectively.
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders must ensure that staff are suitably skilled and trained to teach young learners and those who have high needs. On vocational subjects with external examinations, they should ensure that learners have the knowledge they need to pass these examinations.
- Leaders must ensure learners have high attendance and punctuality to lessons particularly at Coulsdon.
- Leaders must improve the culture across the college, particularly at Coulsdon, so that learners feel comfortable when on campus. They need to ensure they understand the experiences of different groups of learners and eradicate inappropriate behaviour. They should ensure that learners understand appropriate forms of conduct and behaviour, including respect for each other and how to conduct themselves in lessons.
- Leaders must ensure that learners who have high needs have specific goals that provide them with planned opportunities to work towards achieving their EHC plan outcomes. They should ensure that learners who require therapeutic input receive this in a timely manner so they can make good progress.
- Leaders must ensure that young learners and those who have high needs are supported to participate in meaningful and timely work-related and work experience opportunities.
- Leaders must ensure that tutors teach learners and apprentices about the risks associated with radicalisation and extremism.
- Leaders must ensure that tutors teach learners a personal development curriculum so that learners and apprentices can develop their talents and interests beyond the curriculum and make informed decisions on how to lead a healthy and safe life.
- Leaders must ensure that learners and apprentices receive impartial careers advice and guidance, so they are appropriately prepared for their next steps.
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Ensure that the much improved teaching and learning in the college result in a continuation of the trend of rapidly improving success rates, most notably for students aged 16 to 18.
- Share more of the good practice of the many outstanding teachers in the college who set high expectations for their students.
- Ensure that attendance and punctuality are consistently good across all areas of the college by continuing to take firm actions to reinforce with students the need to attend lessons regularly and on time as an important part of succeeding at college and developing their employability skills.
- Explore ways in which a number of subject areas can offer external work experience for a period of time during students’ studies at college in order to take advantage of the rapidly improving partnerships with employers and to enhance the many initiatives already in place to bring students into contact with employers through their coursework.
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Improve students’ attendance and punctuality by ensuring that staff and students rigorously implement the agreed procedures.
- Raise success rates and students’ progress by strengthening further the focus on improving teaching and learning.
- Review and revise as necessary the varying approaches to teaching functional skills and fully implement planned changes.
- Ensure that assessment procedures, including planning, and the quality of feedback are further improved.
- Make better use of initial assessment to inform teaching and learning to meet the needs of students, particularly those on foundation level courses.
- Continue to improve the management skills of heads of division and team leaders to ensure that consistently high standards are the norm across the college.
Areas for improvement
The college should address:
- success rates on long courses at level 3 and in work-based learning
- quality of provision for Train to Gain
- the development and use of ILT in supporting learning
- the range of curriculum enrichment and work experience in a minority of subjects
- the consistency of effective target setting for students to improve performance.
Areas for improvement
- Insufficient use of ILT and audio visual equipment to support learning
- Insufficient variety of learning activity in some lessons
- Insufficient support for students on entry level 2 skills for working life courses
What should be improved
- students' retention and pass rates
- teaching and learning o provision for students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities
- the quality of external provision in ESOL
- literacy and numeracy support for students.
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