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Inspection Report Recommendations

Abbeygate Sixth Form College - Outstanding

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Leaders, managers and teachers have designed a highly ambitious ‘super curriculum’. This significantly extends students’ knowledge and skills beyond the required taught curriculum. Directed independent learning tasks engage students with the world of work. These tasks involve activities, challenges or tasks set by teachers. In politics and religious studies, students run a model United Nations event. At this event, students research and work through countries’ different responses to the war in Ukraine. Chemistry students select ‘molecule of the month’. They then present their findings to classmates. Drama students consider the skills involved in writing plays. As a result, students broaden and deepen their knowledge and understanding of topics.

etc.

Abingdon & Witney College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Further develop enrichment opportunities for learners at the Witney and Common Lees campuses.
  • Make sure leaders have clear and robust oversight of the quality of subcontracted provision.

Access Creative College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers need to ensure apprentices make swifter progress from their starting points by:
    • establishing and using apprentices’ starting points to plan what they are going to teach
    • ensuring that trainers provide the apprentices with the knowledge they need before setting tasks or assessments for completion.
  • Leaders and managers need to ensure that all learners and apprentices improve their numeracy and literacy skills through their vocational programmes.
  • Leaders and managers must accelerate improvements in learners’ attendance and narrow the gaps in attendance between sites.

Activate Learning - Good

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders and managers should speed up plans to improve the quality of the apprenticeship provision, and the quality of teaching, learning and assessment, focusing on those areas where achievement rates are not yet high enough. In particular they should make sure that:
    • managers and assessors identify slow progress or poor performance among apprentices earlier so that more achieve in the planned time
    • assessors set targets with apprentices, during reviews, that help them broaden their technical skills and knowledge
    • assessors improve the quality of their feedback on submitted work to help apprentices develop their skills quicker
    • all teachers use information about the starting points of learners to plan and provide work that is of a level and complexity appropriate to each learner, and develops their mathematical skills.

Ada College (National College of Digital Skills) - Good

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • To improve teaching, learning and assessment further, leaders and managers need to ensure that:
    • teachers take better account of the different skills and knowledge that learners have at the beginning of their programme, and ensure that learners receive tasks that are suitably challenging
    • teachers improve their skills in using strategies to deepen learners’ understanding of topics
    • teachers promote equality and diversity better in lessons.
  • Ensure that all apprentices have frequent reviews and that assessors accurately monitor and record apprentices’ acquisition of workplace skills and behaviours.

Addysg Oedolion Cymru

2025 Full Inspection Report
We have made three recommendations to help the service continue to improve:
  1. Strengthen the process for sharing advice and guidance for learners on nonaccredited courses so that they fully understand the progression routes and learning options open to them
  2. Improve opportunities for learners to use Welsh in their learning
  3. Ensure that self-evaluation accurately identifies strengths and areas for improvement

Aldridge Adult Learning - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should improve their monitoring of the pastoral curriculum to understand the impact of this area of provision.
  • Leaders should ensure that all employers understand apprentices’ progress and learning as well as requirements for the final assessments, so that they can better support apprentices to achieve.
  • Leaders should ensure that links with employers are improved to better inform the adult learning curriculum.
  • Leaders should make sure that all apprentices and learners understand how to keep themselves safe from potential risks associated with extremism and radicalisation.

Andover College - Good

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure students are set specific and measurable targets to enable them to make excellent progress and achieve higher grades, especially adult male students.
  • Improve the quality and consistency of feedback on marked written work so that students know what they need to do to improve.
  • Provide a broad range of challenging activities in lessons to meet the differing needs and abilities of students and help them to achieve their full potential.
  • Ensure teachers’ action plans following lesson observations contain specific and timely interventions to promote rapid improvement in teaching, learning and assessment practice.
  • Ensure all students aged 16 to 18 with the appropriate prior attainment have the opportunity to take GCSE English and mathematics in order to improve their employment prospects.
  • Ensure all teachers routinely promote diversity in lessons to enable students to understand wider cultural values.

Aquinas College - Good

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Eradicate the remaining areas of underperformance and improve students’ results more rapidly through ensuring that all teachers use data available to help plan lessons that include activities that provide stretch and challenge, especially for the most-able students.
  • Strengthen still further the rigour of arrangements to assure the quality of teaching, learning and assessment. Set clear and precise actions for improvement for individual teachers following lesson observations. Evaluate more fully the impact of staff training and use this to inform selfassessment.
  • Revise and implement the policy for developing students’ intermediate-level English and/or mathematical skills. Ensure that teachers incorporate the development of written English and/or mathematical skills in lessons.
  • Conduct more detailed analysis of the performance of different groups of students and use this to inform strategies for improvement at all levels.
  • Analyse and use data more systematically at curriculum level to set precise and measurable targets for improvement within agreed timescales.

Ashford College - Outstanding

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Leaders and governors are passionate about tackling social inequality through education and training. They rightly pride themselves in offering a range of inclusive, accessible and challenging learning opportunities to the communities in East Kent.

etc.

Ashton Sixth Form College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase the proportion of students and adult learners who remain on their courses and achieve their qualifications, particularly at the highest grades.
  • Improve the quality of education in the few areas that are underperforming.
  • Improve the monitoring of students’ and adult learners’ progress and achievement, taking swift action to prevent underperformance.

Askham Bryan College - Good

2011 Full Inspection Report
What does Askham Bryan College need to do to improve further?
  • Improve the retention of adult students on advanced-level courses, particularly in floristry and animal management by ensuring that they fully understand the commitments required and by monitoring their progress very closely to enable prompt support to be put in place to help them stay on their course. 
  • Improve the quality of the provision at the newly acquired Newton Rigg campus by embedding the quality assurance processes and developing the curriculum further to ensure that it meets local area needs and is cost-effective.
  • Improve the teaching and learning in theory sessions through the identification and sharing of good practice, better use of ILT and the VLE, and the planning of lessons to ensure that learning is consolidated, and that all learners are fully engaged and challenged to achieve their full potential.
  • Build on the existing initial assessment practices to ensure that the needs of students with low levels of literacy and numeracy are clearly understood and to inform detailed measurable development targets. Prepare students fully for external tests to improve the success rates on functional skills.
  • Implement the online monitoring system across all sites to ensure that all learners are given specific short-term targets that can be monitored closely so that all students are motivated and challenged to achieve their goals.
  • Provide additional and appropriate training to support governors and middle managers in carrying out their duties in order to embed quality assurance procedures further and to ensure that prompt action is taken to improve students’ outcomes, reduce any inconsistencies across the different sites and meet the college’s vision to be outstanding.

Ayrshire College

2024 Annual Engagement Visit Report
The following areas for improvement were identified and discussed with the senior managers:
  • In some curriculum areas the delivery of core skills is not sufficiently contextualised to ensure it is relevant and engaging for learners.
  • Most curriculum teams have not yet fully embedded the development of meta skills within their programmes. This is limiting learner awareness of the importance of these skills and their ability to identify and promote them to prospective employers.
  • Learner participation rates in the Student Engagement and Satisfaction Survey (SESS) are low.

Barking & Dagenham College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Involve employers more effectively in reviewing the progress that apprentices make.
  • Improve the support for apprentices on electrical and plumbing standards to enable a high proportion to complete and achieve their apprenticeship.
  • Improve attendance in areas including English, mathematics and ESOL for young learners.
  • Identify the reasons why too few learners and apprentices archive merits and distinction and take action to improve this.
  • Provide opportunities for young learners on level 2 courses to participate actively in work experience to support the development and application of their knowledge and skills.

Barnet & Southgate College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase the proportion of learners, particularly young learners, who achieve their qualifications in engineering, ESOL, English and mathematics.
  • Provide meaningful work experience opportunities for learners in all subjects.
  • Check learners’ knowledge and understanding consistently well across all subjects.
  • Continue to raise attendance in all subjects, particularly in ESOL, English and mathematics.

Barnfield College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase the proportion of installation and maintenance electrician apprentices who complete their apprenticeship and achieve merit and distinction grades in their final assessments.
  • Continue to improve how teachers prepare learners for external examinations on vocational and GCSE mathematics courses.

Barnsley College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that actions taken to reduce further the proportion of apprentices who are past their planned end dates are fully implemented.
  • Implement fully actions to improve the rate of learners’ progress on A-level and applied general courses and evaluate the impact of these actions.
  • Provide all learners with specific feedback that identifies what they need to do to improve their work.

Barnsley Sixth Form College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that actions taken to reduce further the proportion of apprentices who are past their planned end dates are fully implemented.
  • Implement fully actions to improve the rate of learners’ progress on A-level and applied general courses and evaluate the impact of these actions.
  • Provide all learners with specific feedback that identifies what they need to do to improve their work.

Basingstoke College of Technology - Good

2016 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Continue promoting the recently introduced strategies to track attendance and follow up on nonattendance, reinforcing the evolving culture of zero tolerance towards unauthorised absences.
  • Identify those areas of the 16 to 19 study programme where learners’ progress is too slow and too few learners successfully achieve their qualification. Share best practice with those areas, particularly around the use of target setting, progress monitoring and providing feedback to learners, to help increase the proportion of learners who successfully achieve their qualifications.
  • Continue promoting and developing the recently introduced strategies for raising the quality of teaching, learning and assessment on functional skills and GCSE English and mathematics, reinforcing to learners the importance of these subjects to their longer-term success.

Bath College - Requires Improvement

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve the teaching of theory lessons to motivate and enthuse learners to make more rapid progress by:
    • providing a wide range of relevant activities, and introducing new concepts and information at a suitable pace to deepen learners’ understanding, knowledge and skills
    • developing learners’ English and mathematical skills in vocational settings
    • frequently checking learners’ understanding of what they are learning.
  • Ensure that staff across the college make thorough use of the information they have about their learners to plan and set work that challenges them to make rapid progress, and achieve the highest grades of which they are capable.

Bede Sixth Form College - Outstanding

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Leaders have a very clear vision to provide high-quality training and education across the Tees Valley. They have successfully created a highly inclusive, supportive and welcoming culture in the group. Since the previous inspection, they have continued to make improvements, such as developing high-quality learning environments for learners and apprentices. Leaders worked with a locally based global company to ensure that the science laboratories in which they invested were of industry standard.

etc.

Bedford College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that all learners receive useful careers information and guidance to understand how to achieve their long-term career goals.
  • Ensure that learners who need to gain a GCSE mathematics qualification are swiftly able to join courses.
  • Ensure that all staff receive sufficient training on effective assessment methods so that they can check accurately how well learners and apprentices retain new learning and transfer this to their long-term memory.
  • Improve the attendance of learners so that they attend their courses well.

Bedford Sixth Form College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that all learners receive useful careers information and guidance to understand how to achieve their long-term career goals.
  • Ensure that learners who need to gain a GCSE mathematics qualification are swiftly able to join courses.
  • Ensure that all staff receive sufficient training on effective assessment methods so that they can check accurately how well learners and apprentices retain new learning and transfer this to their long-term memory.
  • Improve the attendance of learners so that they attend their courses well.

Belfast Metropolitan College

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the Belfast Metropolitan College need to do to improve further?

The College needs to:

  • implement a coherent strategy to improve the quality of teaching and learning across the College, that is underpinned by rigorous monitoring and evaluation, and a widespread continual professional development programme with a strong focus on developing effective pedagogy;
  • strengthen quality management across the College, particularly the effective use of data and rigorous self-evaluation that is supported with more timely intervention strategies to address underperformance;
  • clarify more explicitly the roles of the curriculum managers in monitoring and evaluating the quality of the provision;
  • take urgent action to improve the inadequate quality of the provision in transport operations and maintenance, particularly assessment tracking and recording, collegial working and the process for self-evaluation; and
  • strengthen the quality of leadership and management of the work-based learning provision, in particular the monitoring and tracking of the progress of trainees and apprentices, and self-evaluation procedures including the work of sub-contracted training providers.

Berkshire College of Agriculture - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure all apprentices complete their training and achieve with the planned time.
  • Make sure teachers are trained in techniques to help students remember more of what they are taught over time.
  • Make sure students with high needs receive the advice they need to make more informed choices about their next steps.

Report Recommendations

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