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Inspection Report Recommendations

East Coast College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Implement actions to increase the proportion of apprentices who achieve their qualifications in a timely manner.
  • Implement actions to increase the proportion of younger students on diploma and A levels who remain on their courses and achieve their qualifications.
  • Make sure students’ starting points are used effectively to set tasks that are challenging on the few programmes for young people and in the specialist provision for students with high needs where students find work too easy.

East Durham College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Continue to implement actions to improve the experience of learners on the few A-level programmes where they have encountered disruption to their learning.
  • Ensure that a higher proportion of learners complete their courses on the few A levels where retention is not as high as on most.
  • Ensure that all adult learners on distance learning programmes are sufficiently challenged to recall and apply what they have learned.
  • Ensure that all adult learners and learners with high needs in specialist provision understand the risks posed by radicalisation and extremism.

East Lancashire Learning Group - Outstanding

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

Leaders have designed curriculums that are highly ambitious and help learners and apprentices to build their knowledge, skills and behaviours over time. For example, adult learners on tailored family learning on the early years, education and childcare pathway firstly study family English and mathematics and subjects such as robotics and coding with their children in community settings. They continue to build on their learning and develop and apply their knowledge and skills when they study a level 1 or level 2 qualification in support work in schools and colleges. Consequently, many adult learners improve their confidence significantly and find jobs or volunteer in schools. Young learners on the digital production, design and development T level learn about emerging technologies and business environments in their first year. The knowledge they gain in year one helps them to learn and apply more complex knowledge and skills in year two, such as when they write project proposals.

etc.

East Norfolk Sixth Form College - Good

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 - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that ongoing strategic developments are implemented quickly and effectively, and are fully communicated to staff.
  • Ensure that staff receive sufficient support to help them to manage their workloads.
  • Ensure that the plans in place for safeguarding reporting and monitoring across the group are swiftly implemented.
  • Ensure that all tutors and assessors make effective use of information about learners’ and apprentices’ starting points when planning learning.
  • Ensure that all adult learners benefit from effective careers information and guidance to understand how to achieve their long-term career goals.
  • Ensure that learners on vocational education programmes for young people benefit from effective and suitable work experience.

East Surrey College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the teaching on the foundation learning programmes so all learners with high needs make the progress they are capable of.
  • Provide learners and apprentices with feedback that helps them know what they need to do to improve.
  • Increase the proportion of 16- to 18-year-old learners on level 1 courses who stay until the end and achieve their qualifications.
  • Increase the proportion of adult and 16- to 18-year-old learners who achieve at least a grade 4 in GCSE English and/or mathematics.

East Sussex College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Further embed and strengthen strategies to increase attendance in English and mathematics lessons.
  • Improve retention and achievement in online adult courses through more structured and focused careers information, advice and guidance for students.
  • Ensure that apprentices complete their programmes within expected timeframes.

Easton College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Make sure that teachers provide learners and apprentices with high-quality feedback so they can improve their work.
  • Make sure that apprentices have regular and frequent reviews so that employers and staff can plan their training effectively and apprentices can complete their training in the time expected.
  • Make sure that learners can discuss personal development themes in their tutorials.

Edinburgh College

2024 Annual Engagement Visit Report
Main points for action
  • College managers should continue to develop strategies to improve collaboration between curriculum and support services, including further development of joint approaches to self-evaluation.
  • College staff and managers should continue to focus on reducing withdrawal rates for learners on part-time FE programmes and improving overall successful completion rates.
  • College managers and the SA should work together to increase learners’ awareness of the role of the SA and its function in representing the views of learners.

Elliott Hudson College - Outstanding

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Provide work experience earlier in the study programme for students who would benefit from it because, for example, they are not planning to progress to university.

Essex Adult & Community Learning Service - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the proportion of adult care apprentices and adult learners who complete their learning on accredited courses where this is too low.
  • Ensure that adult learners and apprentices are aware of the local safeguarding risks in the areas in which they live and work.
  • Ensure that apprentices receive sufficient independent careers advice and guidance so that they are aware of the wider career options available to them.

Exeter College - Outstanding

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers need to ensure that the course specifically designed for learners with high needs is sufficiently challenging, ambitious and individualised, to meet each learners’ needs.

Falmouth Marine School - 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.

Farnborough College of Technology - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve teaching and assessment in AS- and A-level courses so learners acquire the knowledge they need and know how to achieve the grades they are capable of.
  • Improve the quality of education for young people so they receive consistently high-quality teaching.

Fashion Retail Academy - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the proportion of young learners who achieve their mathematics GCSE qualifications at grade 4 and above.
  • Take appropriate action to manage the expectations and improve the experience of the small minority of young learners whose courses do not meet their expectations.

Fife College

2024 Annual Engagement Visit Report
The following areas for improvement were identified and discussed with the senior managers:
  • Despite improvement over the last three years, rates of learner attainment for full-time FE programmes remain below the sector the norm.
  • Rates of learner attainment for full-time HE programmes have declined over the last three years and are below the sector norm.
  • Successful completion rates for key groups of learners (from the most deprived postcode areas; who have declared a disability; who are care experienced or from an ethnic minority background) have declined and are all below sector norms.
  • There is no college wide strategy in place to systematically evaluate learning and teaching approaches to ensure standards of delivery are consistent across the college.
  • There are no college-wide arrangements for identifying and sharing effective practice in improving outcomes for learners.
  • Staff in most departments are not making effective use of the PI dashboard to interrogate data to support evaluation and plan for improvement.
  • There is no college-wide strategy for the development of learners’ wider skills, including meta-skills.
Main points for action
  • The college should put in place systematic, college-wide arrangements to evaluate learning and teaching to support improvement and ensure that the quality of delivery is consistent across the college.

Fircroft College of Adult Education - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that all learners develop their English and mathematics skills.
  • Ensure that all learners have access to CEIAG throughout their studies.
  • Ensure that leaders and teachers work with employers to develop curriculums that reflect the needs of employers.
  • Monitor the next steps for learners on non-accredited programmes.

Forth Valley College

2023 Annual Engagement Visit Report
The following areas for improvement was identified and discussed with the senior managers:
  • The rates of withdrawal for learners from a care-experienced background is high, and is higher than both the sector norm and the overall withdrawal rate of the wider college.
  • Most curriculum teams have not yet fully embedded the development of meta skills within their programmes.
  • A few teaching staff do not have a sufficient level of digital skill to fully support the ambitions of the college’s strategy for delivering learning and teaching.
  • Arrangements for collating an overall, college-wide overview of the quality of learning and teaching are not sufficiently clear.
  • Overall, learners are not yet sufficiently aware of the role of the SA in contributing to arrangements for evaluating, reviewing and improving the quality of provision.
  • Arrangements for learners to evaluate their learning experience are not consistent across all teaching teams.

Franklin Sixth Form College - Outstanding

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

Leaders and managers have a very clear overview of the quality of the provision at the college, including at the subcontractors. Staff carefully monitor each student’s performance and progress and, when this does not meet expectations, involve parents and/or carers, where appropriate, and put in place effective improvement actions. Leaders accurately identify where provision falls short of meeting their high standards and take effective action to improve it. Managers have reviewed and successfully enhanced the adult learning curriculum by, for example, ensuring that teachers cover the basic curriculum components comprehensively before teaching more advanced topics. They have communicated clearly their expectations to staff, and adult students now make very good progress in developing their knowledge and skills.

etc.

Furness College - Inadequate

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that early year’s educator apprentices receive adequate time to complete their training while they are at work.
  • Improve teachers’ use of assessments completed at the start of the course or apprenticeship in planning challenging curriculums for learners and apprentices.
  • Set clear and measurable actions to improve the quality of teaching for all learners and apprentices.
  • Improve teachers’ use of feedback to ensure that learners and apprentices know what they have done well and what areas they need to improve.
  • Ensure that leaders and governors have an accurate oversight of the quality of education so that they can make the improvements that are needed.
  • Ensure that learners and apprentices understand the principles of fundamental British values and why these are important.
  • Ensure that learners and apprentices make effective use of careers information, advice, and guidance

Gateshead College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that learners with high needs receive high-quality reviews of their progress to help them understand the progress that they are making towards their learning objectives and what they need to do to improve.
  • Ensure that all learners with high needs benefit from work placements so that they have an opportunity to put into practice what they are learning at college.
  • Ensure that employers attend reviews so that they are clear about the progress that apprentices are making and can support them to develop their skills in the workplace.

Gateway Sixth Form College - Good

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should work with staff in information technology and health and social care to develop a clear understanding of what students need to know for their next steps, to understand how best to sequence learning, and to develop their teaching skills.
  • Leaders and managers should work with staff to help them develop their understanding of how to use feedback most effectively.
  • Leaders, managers and staff should work with students to ensure they understand British values and the threats posed by those with radical and extremist views.
  • Governors should provide leaders and managers with greater challenge and take a more active role in driving further improvements at the college.

Glasgow Clyde College

2024 Annual Engagement Visit Report
The following areas for improvement were identified and discussed with the senior managers:
  • A few curriculum teams do not track learners’ development of core, essential and meta skills to support them to become reflective learners.
  • Some class representatives have not yet received appropriate training for their role.

Glasgow Kelvin College

2024 Annual Engagement Visit Report
The following areas for improvement were identified and discussed with the senior managers:
  • There is scope to improve learner representation on Modern Apprenticeship (MA) and employer led programmes.
  • Learners are not sufficiently aware of their development of essential skills or meta skills.
  • There is no college-wide approach to the recording of learners’ wider skills, including meta skills.
  • Less than half of learners are aware that the SA is a feedback route to improve the learner experience.
  • Less than half of class representatives have undergone training and many class representatives are not clear about their role.

Report Recommendations

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