What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Use the information they gather on what learners know and can do on level 1 courses at the start of their courses to plan and teach challenging content and activities appropriate to learners’ existing knowledge and skills.
- Monitor the quality of apprenticeship training and the progress that apprentices make to make sure that apprentices complete their courses and achieve their qualifications in a timely manner.
- Make sure that young learners attend all the components of their programmes well, including English and mathematics lessons, and tutorials.
- Continue to manage the conduct of learners so that across all sites their behaviour is of the high standard expected.
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Increase the proportion of apprentices, particularly those on plumbing and electrotechnical apprenticeships, who achieve their qualifications in the planned timescale, by ensuring that:
- apprentices receive frequent workplace visits and assessments that enable them to make rapid progress
- assessors plan on- and off-the-job training effectively.
- Increase the proportion of learners aged 16 to 19 who achieve their mathematics and English qualifications or improve their GCSE grade, by ensuring that:
- learners attend their lessons in these subjects
- teachers plan and teach sessions that take account of each learner’s prior skills and knowledge and therefore meet their individual needs.
Key areas for improvement
- Slow progress of many learners
- Insufficient monitoring of learners’ progress
- Quality assurance arrangements and standardisation
- Inadequate monitoring and promotion of equality of opportunity
Areas for improvement
- Lack of appropriate language support in vocational courses
- Inconsistent target setting and completion of ILPs
What should be improved
- attendance
- punctuality
- the proportion of good or better teaching
- provision in media and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL)
- retention rates of adult students on level 1 courses
- quality assurance at course team level in some subjects
- development of key skills across the curriculum
- consistency of tutorials
- some accommodation.
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