Luton Sixth Form College Inspection Recommendations

: Jed Keenan; Inspection Report Recommendations; 31 October 2020; Hits: 1323

Luton Sixth Form College

Improve the retention and pass rates on the few vocational courses where these are low.
Improve student attendance in lessons, particularly GCSE English, mathematics and second-year vocational courses.
Provide opportunities for students not planning to go to university to receive sufficient and timely CIAG to help them prepare for their next steps.
Improve employer involvement in the design and review of programmes and qualifications.

Enable more students to achieve their best by leaders ensuring that:
- all teaching staff record student assessments regularly, in a way which enables progress mentors to identify students who are underperforming
- students on science and mathematics A-level courses achieve as well as they are capable.
Improve the development of students’ skills for employment by:
- ensuring that each student has an individual plan for developing the skills that they will need for their chosen career path or vocational area of interest
- increasing significantly the proportion of students who undertake a high-quality work experience placement.
Improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment by:
- providing relevant training and development for teachers to support them in designing activities to extend the learning of the most able students
- sharing more widely the good practice of teachers who successfully provide students with more challenging activities
- ensuring that teachers have the plans, skills and confidence to support the development of students’ mathematical skills in all courses.

The college should address:

key skills provision o effectiveness of group tutorials
sharing of teaching skills and best practice between subject teams
pass rates and the proportion of high grades achieved in some GCE AS and A-level subjects.