Inspection Report Recommendations
Grimsby Institute
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.
Grŵp Llandrillo Menai
2017 Full Inspection Report
Recommendations
- Ensure that all learners attain the highest standards and grades they can
- Improve the use of short term targets for learners so that they know what they need to do to improve
- Improve teaching strategies to ensure that all learners are fully challenged
- Improve the quality of self-evaluation in learning areas
Guernsey College of Further Education
2015 Full Inspection Report
We discussed with staff and the Education Department how they might continue to improve the college. This is what we agreed with them.
- Continue to improve retention and achievement rates, particularly in those programme areas where they are low.
- Provide staff with the necessary CPD to enable them to engage more fully in self-evaluation activities to support improvement.
- The college and Education Department need to work together more effectively to find workable solutions to long-running challenges around cover and recruitment of staff.
Hadlow College
2010 Full Inspection Report
What does Hadlow College need to do to improve further?
- Improve the use of ILT in lessons to drive up teaching standards and increase the amount of outstanding teaching.
- Improve the engagement of employers in work-based learning programmes in order to improve the quality of training and outcomes for learners.
- Improve the promotion of equality and diversity in lessons to ensure that learners develop a better understanding of the diverse world in which they live.
Halesowen College
2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Ensure that more learners engage in a broader range of relevant activities where they can learn the skills necessary for work, such as working to deadlines, teamworking and occupational skills relevant to their career aspirations in order that they are well equipped as they progress into the next stage of their career.
- Ensure that teachers set more complex and challenging work for the most-able learners to ensure that they can fulfil their potential.
- When observing lessons, leaders and managers need to have a stronger focus on the impact of teaching on the progress that all learners make in lessons, in order to bring about sustained improvements in teaching, learning and assessment.
- Staff need to monitor more closely the progress that all learners make, so that they can identify more quickly when learners fall behind with their work and put in place the appropriate support.
Hammersmith & Fulham Adult Learning & Skills Service
2010 Full Inspection Report
What does the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham need to do to improve further?
- Further improve outcomes in arts, media and publishing and languages, by empowering learners to have full ownership of setting and achieving challenging goals.
- Further improve the quality of teaching and learning by ensuring that: all learner journals are rich and detailed; all staff make effective use of ILT; and literacy, numeracy and language support is properly embedded in all lessons.
Haringey Sixth Form College
2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders should ensure that teachers plan a curriculum that logically connects both academic and non-academic components. For vocational programmes, staff need to ensure that students undertake timely relevant external work experience.
- Leaders need to ensure that teachers receive high-quality subject-specific training that supports them to improve their teaching practice.
- Leaders should ensure that students, particularly those not intending to apply to university, have timely access to careers advice and guidance about the full range of pathways available.
- Staff should continue to improve student attendance, by ensuring that expectations are consistently high. They should implement strategies to support those students who are persistently absent to attend their lessons and to remain up to date with their work.
Harlow College
2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Ensure that more learners make swift progress in improving their skills and achieving their qualifications in English and mathematics, by:
- focusing managers’ and teachers’ actions more effectively on improving the support provided for functional skills
- ensuring that all learners attend their classes in English and mathematics regularly and punctually
- continuing to make improvements to the teaching, learning and assessment of GCSEs and functional skills.
- Make sure that teachers set, monitor and review precise and ambitious targets for learners and apprentices that enable them to make rapid progress, particularly for the most able.
- Reduce the variability in achievement between different groups of apprentices, by monitoring the performance of these apprentices carefully, identifying reasons for non-achievement and taking prompt action to address these.
Harrogate College
2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Identify the starting points of learners aged 16 to 18 on GCSE English and mathematics courses more accurately so that tutors can plan and teach curriculum content that enables these learners to develop substantial new knowledge, skills and behaviours.
- Ensure that tutors who work with learners with high needs set targets that are consistently specific and enable all these learners to progress quickly against identified areas for development.
- Increase attendance in the subjects where it is too low.
- Ensure that the quality of education provided for learners aged 14 to 16 on fulltime provision at the Mabgate campus continues to improve swiftly.
Harrow College
2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders should ensure that learners and apprentices are aware of the enrichment opportunities available at the college to improve participation in these activities.
- Leaders should ensure that teachers of mainstream subjects make consistent use of EHC plan outcomes to plan a bespoke curriculum for learners with high needs that enables learners to develop their independence and the skills they need for work and adult life.
- In a minority of apprenticeship programmes, teachers should improve their sequencing of the curriculum to ensure apprentices develop basic knowledge before learning more-complex topics.
Hartlepool College of Further Education
2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Use staff training and quality improvement activities to ensure that teachers plan lessons carefully, taking into account learners’ starting points and information from assessment, so that activities are interesting and challenging for all learners.
- Provide training, support and challenge for teachers so that they are better able to agree specific and challenging targets with learners that help them to understand how to make good progress in developing new skills and achieving their goals.
- Increase the proportion of learners that achieve English and mathematics qualifications by:
- ensuring that learners attend lessons in these subjects more frequently
- further developing effective strategies to identify gaps in learners’ knowledge and ensuring that teachers focus on individual learners’ areas of weakness.
Hartlepool Sixth Form College
2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Ensure that students in all curriculum areas have high attendance at college.
- Ensure that all tutors check the understanding of students before moving on to the next topic.
- Ensure that students with high needs have the opportunity to progress to employment where appropriate.
- Ensure that all students receive information on apprenticeships, including higher apprenticeships, when planning their next steps.
Havant & South Downs College
2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders and managers should review the actions they have taken in order to ensure that students and apprentices understand local threats, and they should make sure that they help students and apprentices improve their knowledge of risks in their own communities and workplaces.
- Leaders and managers should continue to improve the classroom skills of weaker teachers so that all students and apprentices benefit from a high-quality education.
- Leaders and managers should improve their tracking of students’ participation in activities outside their course requirements in order to measure in more detail the impact these activities have.
Havering Adult College
2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Ensure that more of the teaching and learning is outstanding. Provide training for all teachers so that they have the confidence and knowledge to integrate English and mathematics into their lessons, and make good use of naturally-occurring opportunities and current events to foster a wider understanding of equality and diversity.
- Review the courses in independent living so that learners become less dependent on the teacher and progress more quickly. Deploy the learning support assistants more effectively so that all learners can actively contribute in lessons and make better progress. Actively focus on, and encourage, the development of communication skills, so that learners are prepared better for independence and participation in their community.
- Monitor closely the progress of apprentices on subcontracted provision to ensure that they complete their programmes within the agreed timescale, and that apprentices achieve their qualifications in English and mathematics.
Haywards Heath 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.
Heart of Worcestershire College
2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Ensure that learners on level 3 programmes:
- routinely receive insightful and informative feedback from teachers so that they understand clearly how to improve their work, accelerate their learning and achieve high grades
- have precise targets to guide their development and progress.
- Improve learners’ attendance at lessons so that it is good in all curriculum areas and across the college by following up methodically on non-attendance, rigorously applying the college’s existing attendance strategy and evolving a zero-tolerance culture towards unauthorised absences.
- Improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment in functional skills English and mathematics at level 2 and in GCSE mathematics by:
- developing the skills of teachers to ensure that they support learners to develop and apply their English and mathematics skills well in their vocational and academic work
- ensuring that teachers of English and mathematics use the findings of regular assessment to identify learners’ skills gaps and ensure that these learners are supported well to quickly gain the required techniques and approaches essential for good progress in their learning
- ensuring that managers provide training and development to support improvement in the teaching of mathematics and English essential skills.
Henley College
2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders and managers should plan their apprenticeship courses to ensure that all apprentices benefit from well taught and frequent lessons to help them build their skills and knowledge and complete their programmes.
- Leaders and managers should ensure that staff assess apprentices’ prior knowledge carefully, use this information to plan learning and provide apprentices with clear feedback to enable them to make progress.
- Leaders should provide governors with more information about the quality of their apprenticeship courses to enable them to judge the progress of improvements.
- Leaders should improve their tracking of students’ external work experience and their analysis of students’ destinations to enable them to more fully measure the impact of their learning.
- Leaders and managers should quicken the pace of improvements so that students’ achievements are consistently high and more achieve the grades of which they are capable.
Hereford College of Arts
2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Increase the proportion of students achieving merit and distinction grades, particularly on extended diploma courses in art and design and music, by:
- ensuring all teachers are skilled in providing sufficiently challenging activities and are adept in using probing questions to elicit thoughtful responses from students and to deepen their understanding of key topics
- sharing the existing good practice in teaching and assessment across all teachers in the college to increase the proportion of outstanding teaching, learning and assessment.
- Collate a more comprehensive analysis of students’ destinations, particularly in following up outcomes for those progressing to employment and those taking a gap year.
- Maintain the strength of focus on actions for quality improvement to embed the culture and staff collective responsibility for continuous quality improvement throughout the college.
Hereford Sixth Form College
2023 Full Inspection Report
No areas for improvement
Herefordshire & Ludlow College
2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders should improve the quality of provision for learners with high needs so that they are taught the skills they need to progress rapidly to the next stage of their education or training.
- Leaders should ensure that all learners and apprentices have a secure understanding of the risks associated with radicalisation and extremism in the sector areas in which learners and apprentices work and in their wider lives.
- Leaders and managers should ensure that all learners and apprentices, including learners with EHC plans, receive unbiased and high-quality careers education, information, advice and guidance so that they know well the full range of next steps available to them.
- Leaders should ensure that teachers improve the information they gain on what learners know and can do at the beginning of adult learners programmes, especially in ESOL, and for learners who have high needs. Teachers must use this information to plan learning carefully so that learners make the rapid progress of which they are capable.
Hereward College
2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Managers should develop further the knowledge and skills of teachers and individual learning support staff, so that they are more able to support routinely and proactively the progress and achievement of learners.
- Ensure that teachers give due attention to the needs of the most able learners, so that they progress at the pace that they are capable of and achieve their potential.
Hertford Regional College
2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders and managers need to ensure that teachers on part-time adult provision plan the curriculum and use learners’ starting points effectively. They need to ensure that adult learners make good progress towards achieving their long-term education and training goals.
- Leaders and managers need to ensure that adult learners receive effective ongoing careers education and guidance to help them succeed in their next steps into higher education and work.
- Leaders and managers need to swiftly improve the attendance of young learners in English and mathematics lessons to help them gain the essential employment skills necessary for their future career choices.
Highlands College
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Hills Road Sixth Form College
2022 Full Inspection Report
No areas for improvement
Holy Cross College
2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Improve teaching, learning and assessment so that students, in particular those on vocational programmes, achieve their qualifications at the grades expected of them.
- Improve retention rates in subject areas where students drop out before the end of the course.