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Inspection Report Recommendations

Coulsdon College

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that the much improved teaching and learning in the college result in a continuation of the trend of rapidly improving success rates, most notably for students aged 16 to 18.
  • Share more of the good practice of the many outstanding teachers in the college who set high expectations for their students.
  • Ensure that attendance and punctuality are consistently good across all areas of the college by continuing to take firm actions to reinforce with students the need to attend lessons regularly and on time as an important part of succeeding at college and developing their employability skills.
  • Explore ways in which a number of subject areas can offer external work experience for a period of time during students’ studies at college in order to take advantage of the rapidly improving partnerships with employers and to enhance the many initiatives already in place to bring students into contact with employers through their coursework.

Coventry College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers must quickly respond to the concerns within apprenticeships. They need to make sure that apprentices receive high-quality teaching that is based on their starting points. The curriculum must be ambitious and challenge apprentices to meet their potential. They must coordinate on- and off-the-job learning to ensure apprentices gain the opportunity to practise newly learned skills.
  • Leaders should make sure that learners and apprentices benefit from a curriculum that is informed by employers to ensure they have the knowledge and skills that employers require, now and in the future.
  • Leaders need to make sure that learners and apprentices consistently receive high-quality teaching. All staff must be given the support they need to improve their teaching practice.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that adult learners and apprentices routinely receive high-quality, unbiased career advice and guidance so that they are aware of the opportunities available to them.
  • Leaders and managers need to ensure that the curriculum for adult learners and apprentices goes beyond their immediate qualifications. They should ensure that learners develop confidence, resilience and knowledge so that they can keep themselves mentally and physically healthy and deepen learners’ and apprentices’ understanding of age-appropriate, healthy relationships.

Craven College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the proportion of students who attend regularly by:
    • examining fully the reasons for poor attendance and implementing strategies to tackle and overcome these
    • improving the way in which attendance is reported to the parents of students aged 16 to 18.
  • Further improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment by ensuring that teachers provide activities that challenge the most able students at levels 1 and 2, so that these students make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Further develop strategies to ensure that adult students, students with high needs and apprentices develop a sound understanding of the dangers of extremism and radicalisation.
  • Continue to improve the teaching of GCSE mathematics and English to increase the proportion of students who gain a high grade.

Crawley College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Governors, leaders and staff have high expectations of all learners and apprentices. They help them achieve their goals and become responsible members of both the college and wider community. Leaders have created an outstanding culture of inclusivity and respect. Consequently, learners develop an understanding of different groups in wider society. Teachers inspire learners to fully commit to their studies and, as a result, they develop the skills, knowledge and behaviours they need to be successful. Learners and apprentices benefit from the considerable range of options that enable them to follow the most appropriate programmes for their future aspirations.

Cronton Sixth Form College

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that the much improved teaching and learning in the college result in a continuation of the trend of rapidly improving success rates, most notably for students aged 16 to 18.
  • Share more of the good practice of the many outstanding teachers in the college who set high expectations for their students.
  • Ensure that attendance and punctuality are consistently good across all areas of the college by continuing to take firm actions to reinforce with students the need to attend lessons regularly and on time as an important part of succeeding at college and developing their employability skills.
  • Explore ways in which a number of subject areas can offer external work experience for a period of time during students’ studies at college in order to take advantage of the rapidly improving partnerships with employers and to enhance the many initiatives already in place to bring students into contact with employers through their coursework.

Croydon Adult Learning & Training

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

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that the much improved teaching and learning in the college result in a continuation of the trend of rapidly improving success rates, most notably for students aged 16 to 18.
  • Share more of the good practice of the many outstanding teachers in the college who set high expectations for their students.
  • Ensure that attendance and punctuality are consistently good across all areas of the college by continuing to take firm actions to reinforce with students the need to attend lessons regularly and on time as an important part of succeeding at college and developing their employability skills.
  • Explore ways in which a number of subject areas can offer external work experience for a period of time during students’ studies at college in order to take advantage of the rapidly improving partnerships with employers and to enhance the many initiatives already in place to bring students into contact with employers through their coursework.

Darlington College

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

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

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

2016 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Increase significantly the proportion of learners on AS- and A-level programmes who achieve the highest grades, by:
    • setting more challenging targets for learners based on accurate assessment of their starting points
    • monitoring more closely the progress that learners make towards achieving their targets, so that they know what they have to do to improve their grades.
  • Ensure teachers make better use of information about learners’ prior attainment to set activities which are sufficiently challenging, particularly for the most-able learners.
  • Improve the quality of teaching and learning in mathematics, as well as attendance, by ensuring that teachers provide more relevant and engaging learning activities, for example by applying mathematics to everyday practical problems or the workplace.

Derwentside College

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

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

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that feedback is consistently effective for all learners and apprentices to help them improve.
  • Ensure high levels of attendance across all programmes.
  • Ensure that all tutors of adult learning programmes reinforce new learning so that adult learners retain information over time.
  • Ensure that all adults understand how to achieve their long-term career goals.

Duchy College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders need to improve the quality of teaching in literacy and numeracy lessons so that students make better progress from their starting points, attend in higher numbers and achieve their qualifications.
  • Senior leaders must swiftly implement the new adult learning strategy and engage more hard-to-reach learners, including adults needing to improve their literacy and numeracy skills.
  • Managers must further develop the few teachers who are not yet sufficiently skilled in teaching theory topics to students, so that students understand the link between theory and practice.

Dudley College of Technology

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve provision for learners with high needs by:
    • ensuring that teachers of vocational subjects use the detailed information available to them to plan and adapt activities to meet fully the needs of learners with high needs
    • ensuring that learners are involved fully in setting their personal development targets so they make good progress in becoming more independent and self-confident.
  • Continue to improve achievement rates in level 2 functional mathematics and on the very small minority of underperforming courses.

Dudley Sixth Form College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve provision for learners with high needs by:
    • ensuring that teachers of vocational subjects use the detailed information available to them to plan and adapt activities to meet fully the needs of learners with high needs
    • ensuring that learners are involved fully in setting their personal development targets so they make good progress in becoming more independent and self-confident.
  • Continue to improve achievement rates in level 2 functional mathematics and on the very small minority of underperforming courses.

Dumfries & Galloway College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What should we improve?

We want to use the college’s Kaleidoscope project, which will be strategically located on the way to the canteen. It will encourage students from different protected backgrounds to feel even more integrated and valued for their diversity, opening up opportunities for discussion and sharing experiences. This combines our need to communicate with students on issues such as equality, diversity, sustainability, ecology, community and knowledge through one cross college team, including the Student Association President and Vice President. Each month a relevant theme, for example, Black History Month, LGBT History Month and Interfaith Month (to include Holocaust Memorial Day) will be set up in a dedicated space in each campus. This will clearly display that the college attracts and benefits from students from all different backgrounds and cultures. This gives a wider perspective to a rural college and encourages the discussion of different cultures and viewpoints to enrich the learning experience.

  • The fair and open access policy for potential students will continue but a more appropriate advice and interview procedure will be implemented. Progression opportunities will be more clearly identified on the website and this will allow applying students to fully understand their journey, be more informed from the outset and improve retention figures linked to students applying to incorrect courses.
  • We want to improve further on the good retention rate of 73% of FT FE students with a declared disability and improve on the 63% success rate from those students. FT HE students have higher statistics at 79% retention with 65% attainment but this could also improve.
  • The college will continue to take measures to improve both mental health awareness and gender issues for students.

Dundee & Angus College

2019 Full Inspection Report
Areas for Development
  1. Traditional patterns of gender segregation remain evident across almost half of the College curriculum, resulting in too many subjects showing a 75% or greater gender split (see detail within the Gender Equality Plan).
  2. Although on a par with national average outcomes for all learners, at c.63% the successful outcomes for Care Experienced learners lag behind those of other learner groups within D&A and do not yet reflect D&A aspirational standards (of 75%+).
  1. Despite overall improvement, individual outcomes across the 10 course areas covered by the Scottish Government Retention Project have been inconsistent, with some improving significantly whilst others have worsened. NC Social Science level 5 further withdrawal increased from 21% to 31% in 2017/18 whilst Access to Life Sciences (SWAP) further withdrawals reduced from 40% to 17.4%.
  2. With a day one outcome figure of 51.4% in 2017/18, learner retention and attainment for standalone Highers and full-time Highers programmes lag significantly behind those of other provision.
  1. The maintenance and expansion of formalised articulation agreements has not kept pace with recent curriculum developments and changes in staffing within the College and key HEI partners. This has resulted in a number of agreements becoming dated, with the potential for future impact on articulation with advanced standing for learners on new programmes or those in areas where agreements have lapsed.
  2. Although the development and delivery of Career Management Skills is strong across all curriculum areas, the promotion and signposting of the Career Education Standards 3-18 is not fully evident.
  3. Whilst excellent opportunities are provided in most curriculum areas, the College aspirations for all learners within full-time FE courses to benefit from work experience/work placement opportunities that match fully with the Work Placement Standard for Colleges has not yet been realised.
  1. College accommodation is generally of a high standard, however the accommodation and facilities within the Kingsway campus no longer meet learner or curriculum needs. This is resulting in learning environments that fall below acceptable standards and learning environments that are failing to keep pace with learner expectations or the needs of regional employers. This is having a day-to-day impact in subject areas such as Hair and Beauty, and is a major barrier to the implementation of the Regional STEM strategy and ambitions for Tayside.
  2. Learner feedback highlights that the use of diverse assessment approaches and methods is not consistent across all teams, limiting the value of some assessments as learning opportunities and reducing learner engagement in the assessment process.
  1. At c80% across a wide range of measures, levels of learner satisfaction are consistently high but have remained static for a number of years and are not improving in line with College aspirations.
  1. Whilst good progress has been made in respect of Students’ Association organisation and development, sustaining a single cohesive Students’ Association Executive has proven to be a challenge year-on year, resulting in disproportionate gaps in learner representation on individual campuses and impacting negatively on the overall effectiveness and autonomy of the Association.
  1. Feedback drawn from learning and teaching observations highlights that too many lessons are still delivered in a traditional teacher led format that does not match fully with College aspirations for the adoption of modern learning styles. Although these approaches can often be successful they do not fully engage learners in their learning, or prepare learners well for the next stages of their learning journey.
  2. Class and lead representative feedback on learning and teaching is more limited and less consistent than feedback on other topics, resulting in a restricted learner voice in this area (see 2.3 above).

Durham Sixth Form Centre

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.

East Coast College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers need to improve the teaching skills of assessors. Assessors need to support apprentices’ development and recall of key theoretical concepts. They need to ensure that apprentices can apply new learning to more complex workplace situations.
  • Leaders and managers need to ensure that apprentices benefit from the same high-quality careers advice and guidance as adults and young people.
  • Managers and teachers must improve the English and mathematics skills of young people, including those with high needs. Young people must attend their lessons. They must apply the same purpose to their English and mathematics learning as they do to their other studies.
  • Leaders and managers need to increase the proportion of supported internship and employment opportunities for students with high needs.

East Durham College

2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that staff teaching vocational and academic courses make good use of the detailed information in the education and health care plans of learners with high needs so that their approaches to teaching and training meet the individual needs of these learners.
  • Ensure that any additional learning and support needs that adult learners may have are identified at the start of their programmes so that appropriate support can be provided to enable these learners to remain on their courses, make good progress and achieve.
  • Ensure that all apprentices benefit from well-structured and well-sequenced training so that they make good progress in developing the theoretical knowledge they need to support them in their jobs.

East Kent College Group

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should continue with their initiatives to improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment to raise standards further, focusing on those areas where achievement rates are not yet high enough. In particular they should ensure that:
    • lecturers set work that is sufficiently challenging to help the most able students make rapid progress and achieve or exceed their expected grades
    • lecturers provide sufficiently detailed feedback so that all students know what progress they are making and what they need to do to improve their work in order to achieve higher grades
    • managers and lecturers support students to be motivated to attend their English and mathematics classes so as to benefit from the good teaching, learning and assessment identified within these sessions and, as a result, improve their skills and achievement of English and mathematics outcomes.

East Norfolk Sixth Form College

2016 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Rapidly improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment in the small minority of subject areas where performance is not yet to a sufficiently high standard by ensuring that:
    • leaders and managers focus on improving the performance of the few teachers who have not yet enabled students to achieve the high grades of which they are capable
    • teachers plan a broad range of activities and tasks that meet the different ability levels of students and challenge them to excel.
  • Ensure that teachers reinforce routinely the use of subject-related mathematics in lessons to enable students to improve their mathematics skills through regular practice.
  • Urgently improve attendance on discrete English and mathematics courses, so that students develop these skills, achieve their qualifications and are better prepared for their next steps.
  • Ensure that the tutorial programme meets the needs of all students and challenges them to improve their personal and social skills effectively.

East Riding College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that they strengthen further their focus on raising standards at the Yorkshire Coast College campus so that all learners enjoy the same high-quality experience.
  • Improve the quality of written feedback that learners receive so that it is consistently helpful in enabling learners to improve the quality of their written work.

East Surrey College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders should set higher expectations for the behaviour of students in communal areas of college sites, particularly at the East Surrey campus. Leaders and staff should monitor and challenge students’ conduct in these areas more closely than they currently do.
  • Leaders should set higher standards for students’ attendance and punctuality. Leaders, managers and teachers should take more assertive action to challenge low attendance in courses at all levels.
  • Leaders should ensure that teaching staff give apprentices feedback which helps them to understand and improve their work.
  • Leaders should take swift action to ensure that all apprentices receive effective careers advice and guidance that supports them with their next steps.

Report Recommendations

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