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Inspection Report Recommendations

Community Learning in Partnership - Good

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve learners’ progress and attainment particularly in mathematics by:
    • setting, recording and reviewing productive targets that are hard enough
    • providing all relevant tutors with training to enable them, where appropriate, to include the teaching of mathematics in vocational lessons
    • developing learners’ everyday arithmetic skills further to help them understand personal money matters
    • setting more complex tasks for more able learners particularly for intermediate level learners.
  • Rapidly improve attendance by:
    • putting in place thorough arrangements to follow up diligently learners who miss lessons
    • setting individual challenging but realistic incremental improvement targets to eliminate unauthorised absence
    • ensuring absent learners are not at risk during the periods when they are expected to be in lessons
    • ensuring that the initiatives to improve attendance and reduce persistent absence focus closely on those learners who are at a risk of homelessness.
  • Consolidate the recent improvements and strengthen strategic leadership by:
    • requiring the non-executive directors to set the highest expectations of the senior manager, and rigorously managing their performance to consistently raise learner’s achievement
    • strengthening arrangements to share good practice
    • replicating identified outstanding features from each centre across the provision, and
    • enhancing the self-assessment report further.

Confetti Institute - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Provide young learners with suitably challenging tasks and activities in lessons.
  • Ensure that lecturers of young learners consistently make useful checks on learning during lessons.
  • Provide young learners who do not aspire to progress to university with appropriate careers advice.
  • Fully implement the new approach to lesson observations for teachers of young learners and adults to ensure that staff benefit from developmental feedback that has a positive impact on their teaching practice.

Connell Sixth Form College - Good

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Managers should ensure that the standard of education and training in newly implemented vocational programmes is as rigorous as it is in the more established courses. They should do this by:
    • ensuring that students’ starting points are clearly identified and teachers use this information to plan programmes that will challenge students to achieve their potential
    • providing purposeful and regular feedback to students to help them to extend their knowledge and develop new skills to assist them in making good progress in their studies.
  • Leaders and managers should improve the financial stability of the college.
  • Leaders, governors and managers should set clear and specific actions in the quality improvement plan to enable them to evaluate continually the progress they make.

Cornwall College - Outstanding

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

Leaders and managers are very ambitious for their learners and apprentices. They provide a very broad range of vocational courses to meet the needs of learners and apprentices in the many different areas the college serves in Cornwall and Devon. Because of this, the college powerfully tackles the social, economic and geographical disadvantages of its learners and apprentices. For example, the college provides accessible learning opportunities to adult learners on Skills Bootcamps in construction to address the local skills shortage for the reopening of South Crofty Tin Mine. Learners with high needs study a supported internship course to build their employability skills at high-quality work placements with employers that are local to them.

etc.

Coulsdon College - Good

2014 Full Inspection Report
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.

Coventry College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure all learners are provided with appropriate feedback so they continue to improve and gain new knowledge, skills and behaviours.
  • Improve achievement in the small number of courses where this is not yet high enough.
  • Improve resources in the kitchen learning environment for learners on life skills courses.
  • Promote enrichment activity and encourage participation for more learners.

Craven College - Requires Improvement

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Maintain the momentum of rapid improvement across all curriculum areas.
  • Rapidly improve learners’ attendance on study programmes.
  • Ensure that strategic developments are planned and implemented quickly and effectively, and are fully communicated to staff.
  • Ensure that staff receive effective support to enable them to manage their workloads

Crawley College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve students’ attendance, particularly in GCSE English and mathematics.
  • Improve the proportion of students who make positive progress from their starting points in GCSE English and mathematics, and who achieve A-level qualifications.
  • Ensure young learners know how to keep themselves safe from the risk of radicalisation and extremism.

Creative and Performing Arts College - Outstanding

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

Leaders and staff have an extremely clear vision for CAPA College to provide specialist education that enables talented young performers and students in creative production to access a high-quality performing arts education.

etc.

Cronton Sixth Form College - Outstanding

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Senior leaders and managers have a very clear rationale for their aspirational curriculums. Leaders carefully consider the courses they provide for students, apprentices and those who have high needs. They have a strong sense of community and are passionate to provide life-changing opportunities for young people and adults, many from disadvantaged backgrounds, to achieve their personal and career goals. They work collaboratively with their subcontractors to provide training for students, including for those that are the furthest from employment and education, to prepare them for work, further learning, apprenticeships and their next steps.

etc.

Croydon Adult Learning & Training - Good

2010 Full Inspection Report
What does Croydon Adult Learning and Training need to do to improve further?
  • Continue to implement strategies to improve success rates, particularly in literacy and numeracy courses.
  • Develop systems for more robust monitoring of attendance to enable all learners successfully to complete their learning aims and qualifications.
  • Ensure the good practice around planning for individual learning is shared more widely.
  • Further develop the use of information learning technology to meet a wider range of learners’ needs in lessons and support learning strategies.
  • Continue to implement measures to ensure available resources are managed effectively to provide value for money.

Croydon College - Good

2014 Full Inspection Report
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.

Darlington College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that staff set high expectations of attendance in GCSE mathematics and ESOL sessions so that more students attend frequently.
  • Ensure that apprentices’ prior knowledge in English and mathematics is identified at the start of their programmes so that staff can develop apprentices’ skills and understanding in these areas.
  • Ensure that across all parts of the curriculum, including provision for students with high needs, employers are sufficiently involved in curriculum planning and design.
  •  Provide all students with high-quality careers information, advice and guidance early in their programme, to support them to identify potential career and training routes for their chosen next steps.

Dearne Valley College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that the attendance and punctuality of learners and apprentices continues to improve.
  • Take action swiftly to improve curriculum areas that are not yet at the standard required by leaders.
  • Ensure that information collected about learners and apprentices at the start of their course is used by all teachers to support learners and apprentices to make rapid progress.

Derby Adult Learning Service - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders should ensure that adult learners from all curriculum areas attend their courses at high rates.
  • Leaders should gather data on all learners’ and apprentices’ destinations after they finish their courses to help them inform future curriculum changes.
  • Leaders should ensure that all tutors set learners specific targets to help learners develop the weakest areas of their knowledge.

Derby College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Continue to improve younger students’ attendance so they consistently attend their courses well.
  • Ensure all students with high needs study well-planned curriculums so they do not repeat prior learning unnecessarily.
  • Make sure that students consistently benefit from demanding enough learning activities and opportunities to revisit and practise what they learn.
  • Support those teachers who require development to provide a high standard of feedback that enables students to improve the quality of their work.

Derwentside College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Encourage more young people living locally to attend the college to gain the skills that they need to take advantage of local and regional job opportunities.
  • Ensure that improvements in the monitoring of apprentices’ progress and the support that is provided for apprentices who fall behind are sustained.
  • Improve communication with employers to increase their involvement in apprenticeship progress reviews.
  • Ensure that all teachers check that learners have fully acquired the knowledge and skills that they should have gained during previous courses so that they can identify and address any gaps in learning.

Dixons Sixth Form Academy - Outstanding

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the school need to do to improve further?
  • Continue to improve the provision for pupils with SEND so that more of them make progress that at least matches other pupils with the same starting points.

Doncaster College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve the quality of education in specialist provision for learners with high needs.
  • Ensure that learners with high needs across the provision understand the targets in their EHC plans and make good progress towards achieving these.
  • On courses where attendance is low, identify the causes and implement actions to raise attendance rates.
  • Provide learners with timely feedback on the courses where this is not good enough, which helps them to understand how to improve.

Dover 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.

Duchy College - Outstanding

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

Leaders and managers are very ambitious for their learners and apprentices. They provide a very broad range of vocational courses to meet the needs of learners and apprentices in the many different areas the college serves in Cornwall and Devon. Because of this, the college powerfully tackles the social, economic and geographical disadvantages of its learners and apprentices. For example, the college provides accessible learning opportunities to adult learners on Skills Bootcamps in construction to address the local skills shortage for the reopening of South Crofty Tin Mine. Learners with high needs study a supported internship course to build their employability skills at high-quality work placements with employers that are local to them.

etc.

Dudley College of Technology - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase the number of apprentices who remain on programme and achieve their apprenticeship on time.
  • Ensure that all learners and apprentices receive routinely planned CEIAG.
  • Ensure that all teachers receive sufficient vocational updating as part of their continual professional development programme.
  • Continue to improve attendance and punctuality, notably in English and mathematics, for learners on education programmes for young people.

Dudley Sixth Form College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase the number of apprentices who remain on programme and achieve their apprenticeship on time.
  • Ensure that all learners and apprentices receive routinely planned CEIAG.
  • Ensure that all teachers receive sufficient vocational updating as part of their continual professional development programme.
  • Continue to improve attendance and punctuality, notably in English and mathematics, for learners on education programmes for young people.

Dumfries & Galloway College - Satisfactory

2024 Annual Engagement Visit Report
The following areas for improvement were identified and discussed with the senior managers:
  • There is no consistent approach for learners to record their development of metaskills. This is limiting the ability of learners to identify and discuss these skills with prospective employers.
  • Most learner representatives have not received sufficient training to undertake their role effectively.

Dundee & Angus College - Satisfactory

2024 Annual Engagement Visit Report
The following areas for improvement were identified and discussed with the senior managers:
  • Rates of learner withdrawal from full-time FE and HE programmes have increased in the last four years but remain below the sector norm. The number of learners who withdraw from part-time FE and HE programmes is above the sector average and has been for the previous 4 years.
  • Meta skills are mapped well across all curricular areas. However, staff have not yet embedded them consistently in all programmes and are not signposting the development in these skills sufficiently to all learners.
  • Some staff do not use My Progress effectively to ensure a consistent learning experiences for all learners.

Durham Sixth Form Centre - Outstanding

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the school need to do to improve further?
  • Continue to share the outstanding practice which exists in teaching, learning and assessment, particularly in providing challenge for the cohort of students identified by the school as ‘most able’.
  • Further develop students’ speaking skills.

Report Recommendations

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