What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Review the curriculum and the use of starting points for students on adult programmes.
- Improve the feedback in health and social care and functional skills mathematics so that students know what they need to do to improve their work and achieve their qualification.
- Improve the consistency of assessment to ensure that all students rectify misconceptions or gaps in learning so that they build on their previous learning.
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Teachers should plan learning activities that challenge students to extend their knowledge, skills and understanding so that all students achieve the grade of which they are capable.
- Improve attendance rates, particularly on level 2 study programmes.
- Ensure that all governors have sufficient understanding of further education to hold senior managers fully to account.
Areas for improvement
The college should address:
- low retention and pass rates for a small minority of courses
- low value added scores for a minority of courses
- lack of differentiation and challenge in a minority of lessons, particularly for more able learners.
What should be improved
- retention and pass rates on some courses
- some aspects of the curriculum
- low take up of learning support
- lack of rigour in some aspects of quality assurance.
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