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Inspection Report Recommendations

Gloucestershire College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and governors must improve systems for monitoring the impact of safeguarding training on staff’s knowledge and the implementation and reporting processes.
  • Leaders and governors must improve swiftly the quality of the curriculum for learners with high needs so that they are taught the skills they need to progress rapidly to the next stage of their education, training, employment and lives in their local communities.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that all learners and apprentices, including learners with high needs, have additional opportunities to develop further their understanding of health and well-being, take part in additional enrichment learning activities and external work placements and receive high-quality careers education, advice and guidance.
  • Leaders and managers must implement strategies to improve the attendance of learners studying on a minority of programmes, particularly English and mathematics, to maximise the learning outcomes for all learners.
  • Leaders, managers and tutors must involve employers in the development of all curriculums to ensure tutors are planning, sequencing and teaching a relevant and ambitious curriculum content that meets the skills needs of all learner

Godalming College - Outstanding

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Trustees, leaders, managers and staff have very high expectations of their students. They have developed an outstanding culture in the college, which concentrates very strongly on learning and developing students’ independent learning skills. As a result, students are highly motivated, determined to succeed and studious. They are extremely committed to their studies. Students benefit from the extensive range of subjects, which enables them to follow the most appropriate programmes for their ambitions and aspirations. They appreciate the excellent resources and accommodation that help them learn.

Gower College

2018 Full Inspection Report
Recommendations
  1. Ensure that all learners attain the highest standards and grades they can
  2. Improve the extent to which learners practise and develop their literacy, numeracy and digital literacy skills through their vocational and academic programmes
  3. Increase opportunities for learners to sustain and develop Welsh as an employability and life skill
  4. Improve teaching strategies to ensure that learners of all abilities are challenged sufficiently in lessons
  5. Make sure that all self-evaluation processes are robust, evaluative and accurate across all areas of the college

Grantham College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should make sure that all courses and the personal development curriculum are logically planned so that students and apprentices gain the knowledge and skills they require over time.
  • Managers should support all teachers to use assessment well and to help them develop appropriate resources and activities to aid students’ learning.
  • Leaders and governors should continue to closely monitor attendance and their strategies to improve student outcomes to ensure that students attend their courses and achieve.
  • Leaders should ensure that staffing continues to be in place for engineering apprentices and that they catch up with their studies and achieve.

Greater Birmingham & Solihull Institute of Technology - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure all learners with high needs are given the opportunity of taking part in meaningful work experience.
  • Ensure learners’ and apprentices’ attendance is consistently high.
  • Improve the proportion of younger learners who successfully complete their studies.

Greenhead College - Outstanding

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

Leaders are exceptionally ambitious for what each one of their students can achieve. They have established a highly ambitious curriculum that enables students, including those with SEND and high needs, to realise their aspirations. Students make excellent progress from their starting points and achieve highly. They progress to their destinations of choice, including to competitive university courses and higherlevel apprenticeships.

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Grimsby Institute - 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.

Grŵp Llandrillo Menai

2024 Full Inspection Report
Recommendations

We have made three recommendations to help the college continue to improve:

  1. Improve the impact of teaching on the quality of learning, with a focus on questioning, formative assessment and stretch and challenge
  2. Improve high grade attainment on graded provision, including vocational and AS/A level qualifications
  3. Address issues of poor learner attendance and punctuality consistently across campuses

Guernsey Institute - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve student attendance at English and mathematics lessons, and make sure that more students achieve their qualifications in these subjects.
  • Ensure that students with high needs studying vocational courses achieve as well as their peers.
  • Make sure that information on what students and apprentices already know and can do is used by lecturers to plan the content and teaching of the curriculum in each subject.
  • Ensure that the curriculum in all subject areas is designed to enable students and apprentices to explore topics in sufficient depth and breadth.

Hadlow College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Provide all apprentices with timely, developmental feedback that enables them to understand their strengths, how to improve and consequently helps them to make excellent progress.
  • Further support learners in receipt of high needs funding to take more ownership of their learning and consequently achieve greater independence in their wider lives.
  • Ensure all eligible learners take part in an external work placement to extend and consolidate their understanding of workplace practices.
  • Further develop the programme of cross college enrichment activities so that learners have better opportunities to explore their interests and talents.

Halesowen College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase retention and achievement rates for apprentices.
  • Ensure apprenticeship teachers plan and use effective teaching strategies.
  • Increase the number of learners and apprentices who achieve high grades.
  • Improve the sequencing of the curriculums for apprenticeships.
  • Ensure apprentices receive high-quality careers education, advice and guidance.
  • Increase attendance and achievement rates for learners who study mathematics and English qualifications as part of their studies.
  • Increase learners’ participation in work experience and work-related activities.

Hammersmith & Fulham Adult Learning & Skills Service - Good

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 - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers need to identify more precisely weaknesses in the quality of education for learners with high needs in both discrete and mainstream provision. They must implement effective strategies to ensure that learners with high needs benefit from a well-planned curriculum and effective teaching.
  • Leaders and managers should continue to implement plans to ensure that all learners benefit from consistent, high-quality teaching. This should include training teachers and tutors in the accurate assessment of what learners know and understand during lessons.
  • Leaders should ensure that staff continue to implement strategies to increase attendance and punctuality to meet college targets.
  • Leaders and managers should promote and encourage learner engagement with planned enrichment activities. Staff should ensure that learners take up opportunities that will help them to broaden their interests.

Harlow College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that all apprenticeship teachers have the necessary skills and knowledge to teach high-quality theory lessons.
  • Ensure teachers use effective strategies to consistently check and consolidate students’ and apprentices’ knowledge before moving onto more complex topics.
  • Ensure leaders have access to detailed information on the progress apprentices make, enabling them to set precise and targeted actions for improvement.

Harrogate College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that learners with high needs benefit from learning activities that are well planned and age-appropriate.
  • Identify and take actions to increase the proportion of learners who achieve their A-level qualifications.
  • Consistently provide useful feedback for young learners that helps them understand how to improve.
  • Take action to increase attendance in subjects where it is too low, particularly in A levels and in GCSE English and mathematics.

Harrow College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Train teachers to use assessment effectively to check learners’ and apprentices’ understanding and adapt their teaching appropriately.
  • Improve outcomes for learners on business, information technology and access to higher education courses at the Richmond campus.
  • Set targets for learners with high needs that link clearly to their EHC plans.  Increase the proportion of learners with high needs who achieve qualifications in English and mathematics.

Hartlepool College of Further Education - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Continue to improve attendance so that it is in line with college expectations.
  • Ensure that teachers develop learners’ written English skills effectively.
  • Identify and quickly implement all actions that are needed to support quality improvements across the college.

Hartlepool Sixth Form College - Outstanding

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

Leaders and governors have a very clear vision to provide high-quality training and education in the north east region. Senior leaders have dedicated time and effort to transform the college group. They have been on a relentless journey to improve all aspects of students’ and apprentices’ experience across all the college campuses. Through inspirational leadership, the culture of the organisation has become one of high aspiration and continuous improvement. Staff strive to achieve their best and are very proud to work for the organisation.

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Havant & South Downs College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Continue to make sure that all apprentices achieve their qualifications successfully and in a timely manner.
  • Make sure that all learners participate in additional activities available to them through the college so that they benefit from opportunities to further develop their personal and social interests.
  • Make sure teachers of learners with high needs track the progress they make to enable them to further develop their knowledge, skills and behaviours.

Havering Adult College - Requires Improvement

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Plan, teach and assess the ESOL curriculum so that learners can advance more quickly through different levels and achieve qualifications relevant to them.
  • Improve the data collected about learners’ progress and destinations, and share this information with governors.
  • Give learners feedback that helps them understand the steps they need to take to improve their work.
  • Identify learners’ strengths and areas for development, and use this information to plan teaching so that teachers close gaps in learning and challenge learners.

Haywards Heath 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.

Heart of Worcestershire College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the consistency and quality of the teaching that learners and apprentices receive across the college.
  • Improve the retention and achievement rates for learners and apprentices.
  • Ensure that all learners and apprentices receive high-quality careers and education advice and guidance.
  • Improve the effectiveness and consistency of wider stakeholder input into curriculum design and implementation.
  • Improve attendance rates for learners and apprentices across all elements of their programmes of study.
  • Improve governance and those arrangements that hold leaders to account.
  • Increase the rigour of the methods used to quality assure all curriculum areas, including those provided by subcontractors.
  • Ensure that all learners and apprentices understand the dangers of radical and extremist behaviours.

Heart of Yorkshire Education Group - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Maintain the focus on improving apprenticeship provision, particularly at Selby College, to enable apprentices to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours that they need to succeed in their chosen career pathways.
  • Take action to reduce the number of learners on A-level courses at Wakefield who leave their courses early.
  • Ensure that all teachers use learners’ and apprentices’ starting points effectively to plan relevant new learning.

Henley College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that they improve the attendance of the small number of learners with poor attendance so that they can make the rapid progress of which they are capable.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that the small minority of teachers who do not currently provide a consistently high quality of education improve rapidly.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all learners benefit from a personal development programme of learning that helps them to develop their wider skills and interests.

Hereford College of Arts - Outstanding

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

Leaders have selected curriculums that allow learners to creatively and flexibly develop the knowledge, skills and professional behaviours needed to work and study in the creative industries. They bring together the skills needed for employment and for personal and professional development. They broaden vocational skills beyond the ask of the curriculum to ensure that learners have highly developed opportunities to understand their skills and future direction.

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Report Recommendations

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