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Inspection Report Recommendations

Herefordshire, Ludlow & North Shropshire College - Good

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 - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that adult learners, where they are able, are supported to develop their knowledge and skills beyond that of the basic qualification content.
  • Leaders should ensure that teachers create opportunities for adult learners to revisit and secure their understanding of fundamental British values across the duration of their course.

Hertford Regional College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • The provider should ensure that young people have high attendance for English and mathematics and in vocational areas where it is currently low.
  • The provider should ensure that employers are involved in the co-design and implementation of all curriculum areas across the college.

Hills Road Sixth Form College - Outstanding

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

Leaders and teachers have developed curriculums that are of an exceptional quality and are highly ambitious. These curriculums reflect leaders’ high expectations and vision for all students to reach their fullest potential. All students study the EPQ, which allows them the opportunity to showcase both their creative and academic potential. Through studying this qualification, students develop a wide range of skills that prepare them exceptionally well for university study.

etc.

Holy Cross College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Create a challenging and broad level 2 curriculum for the high proportion of students who achieve their GCSE English and mathematics resit qualifications in the academic year.
  • Ensure that all subjects perform at the same consistently high standard across the college and increase the number of students who achieve the highest grades.

Hopwood Hall College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does Hopwood Hall College need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that staff who work with learners with complex needs receive the appropriate training to enable them to provide effective support that meets the needs of all learners with high needs.
  • Leaders should ensure that they improve attendance in the areas where attendance is too low, particularly English and mathematics.
  • Leaders should ensure that all lecturers use assessment appropriately to identify gaps in learning so that they can use this information to inform their teaching and help learners to understand key concepts.
  • Leaders should ensure that they further embed their careers programme in all curriculum areas so that all learners and apprentices benefit from advice and guidance on their next steps.

Huddersfield New College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improv?
  • Continue to provide supportive professional training to enhance the quality of teaching, particularly in areas where further improvement is needed.
  • Ensure that all students acquire the independent study skills needed to consolidate their learning and recall key content quickly and securely.
  • Ensure that students on blended programmes have sufficient work experience opportunities to help them to prepare fully for the world of work.

Hugh Baird College - Outstanding

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

Leaders are passionate advocates for their students and apprentices. They understand the power that education and training has to transform lives and reduce social disadvantage. Their ambition to become the best college in the country is founded on the belief that their students and apprentices, staff and local community deserve the best education and training they can provide.

etc.

Hull College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that all safeguarding concerns are recorded in a timely manner.
  • Improve further the attendance of learners on education programmes for young people, including to GCSE English and mathematics sessions.
  • Maintain the focus on increasing the proportion of young people, learners with high needs and apprentices who achieve their qualifications.

Hull Training & Adult Education - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that learners on courses in ESOL benefit from a well-sequenced curriculum that enables them to develop their English-speaking skills confidently before moving on to more complex reading and writing learning activities.
  • Ensure that all tutors fully involve employers in apprentices’ progress reviews to enable effective planning of further learning.

Idea Stores - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that tutors on ESOL programmes are more consistent in checking that learners apply correctly what they have been taught during lessons, such as their formation of sentences.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that ESOL, English and mathematics tutors are consistent in setting out clearly the steps learners need to take to achieve their goals and provide learners with the help they need to understand and meet their goals.
  • Leaders should continue to adjust the curriculum offer to meet the needs of local residents. They should consider offering more accredited courses to help learners with further job or study options. They should ensure that the visual and creative industries courses more closely meet the needs of male learners and learners from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Inspire - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Staff should continue to support young learners to improve their attendance so that they can make even better progress.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all teachers plan their curriculums effectively and take account of learners’ starting points, the targets for learners with high needs, and effective sequencing.
  • Teachers should develop their use of assessment so that they do not move on too quickly before checking that learners have understood topics.
  • Leaders should ensure that all learners benefit from receiving the same level of information about local risks and healthy relationships.

Isle of Wight College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure they plan the curriculum effectively so that all apprentices can complete their qualifications within the planned period of time.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure students studying English and mathematics benefit from high-quality education which helps them to make the rapid progress of which they are capable.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all adult learners and apprentices benefit from a personal development programme of learning that helps them to develop their wider skills and interests.

Itchen College - Outstanding

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

Leaders, managers and staff are passionate about promoting social mobility. They are highly aspirational for students and adult learners, many of whom come from highly disadvantaged backgrounds, to achieve and succeed. This is reflected in leaders’ actions to increase the number of level 1 and 2 courses and so provide students with clear pathways into higher levels of study. In the same way, leaders are committed to supporting students, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), to remain in education.

etc.

John Leggott College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that students studying A-level biology remain on their course and achieve their qualification.
  • Improve the consistency and quality of teaching that students receive so that all students make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Ensure that all students have the opportunity to access relevant work placement opportunities.
  • Consider the strategic intent for the ESOL courses for adult students and ensure that the teaching on these courses is of a good quality.
  • Ensure that all students understand local risks and have a sufficiently well-developed understanding of extremism and radicalisation.

John Ruskin 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.

Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College - Outstanding

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

Leaders have developed highly ambitious curriculums that are designed to enable all learners, many of whom are from areas of deprivation or speak English as an additional language, to develop the knowledge and skills they need for their next steps. Leaders work to proactively improve the opportunities available to disadvantaged learners and increase their participation in education.

etc.

Keighley 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.

Kendal College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve quality assurance processes to accurately identify weaknesses in the quality of education and put actions in place to rectify them swiftly.
  • Improve the planning and teaching of the curriculums for learners on education programmes for young people, particularly on A-level courses.
  • Provide all learners and apprentices with constructive feedback that tells them what they need to do to improve their work.
  • Work closer with employers to coordinate apprentices’ training at college with the skills they are learning in the workplace.
  • Plan teaching effectively to meet the needs of learners with high needs enrolled on level 1 vocational studies.

Kent Adult Education Service - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Make sure that young learners receive useful feedback about how they can improve their work, so they make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Make sure that a higher proportion of learners and apprentices attend their lessons and take swift actions to support those who do not attend.
  • Make sure that learners benefit from opportunities to broaden their wider talents and interests.

Kidderminster College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Provide learners on vocational programmes with high-quality and relevant work experience on those courses where this is not yet in place.
  • Identify and implement actions to increase the proportion of learners who complete their courses at West Lancashire and on A-level courses at Newcastle Sixth Form College.
  • Ensure that staff take full account of EHC plan outcomes to identify the best way to support learners with high needs on vocational courses.
  • Provide effective support for apprentices on all programmes to develop their use and knowledge of English and mathematics.

King Edward VI College, Nuneaton - Good

2015 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Continue the improvement in teaching, learning and assessment so that more is outstanding by ensuring all staff have high aspirations for students, they set challenging tasks and provide feedback consistently on marked work so that more students achieve or exceed their target grades.
  • Maintain the improvements made in the teaching of English and mathematics so that a higher proportion of students achieve A* to C grades in GCSEs in these subjects.
  • Increase the use of work placements and visits to employers to give students a better understanding of the workplace. Increase the availability of activities outside the classroom to broaden students’ interest in, and understanding of their subjects.
  • Strengthen further the skills and capacity of all managers in order to raise standards in the few remaining areas of underperformance.

King Edward VI College, Stourbridge - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase the number of students who attain the very best grades, ensuring that the most able students make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Continue to improve the consistency in the quality of teaching that students receive, ensuring that all teachers challenge students to achieve their very best in the classroom.
  • Improve the quality and consistency of students’ encounters with the world of work, ensuring that the work-ready skills being developed are reinforced through taught curriculums effectively.

King George V College - Requires Improvement

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Set clear and measurable actions to improve the quality of education for apprentices.
  • Ensure that staff are aware of apprentices’ and adult learners’ knowledge and skills prior to starting their course or apprenticeship, so that they can plan challenging curriculums for all.
  • Swiftly improve attendance for learners and apprentices.
  • Increase the proportion of learners who achieve the highest grades of which they are capable.
  • Reduce the level of disruption experienced by learners and apprentices arising from turnover in college staffing.
  • Provide an improved offer of careers advice and teaching of wider personal development topics for apprentices and adult learners.

Kingston Maurward College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Provide all learners and apprentices with feedback that helps them to improve.
  • Ensure that the apprenticeship curriculum integrates on- and off-the-job training well so that all apprentices make good progress.

Kirklees College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the areas of the curriculum that are not yet of consistently high quality, particularly on education programmes for young people.
  • Ensure that the quality of feedback is consistently high to help students and apprentices understand how to improve.
  • Continue to improve attendance and punctuality.
  • Ensure that a much higher proportion of students and apprentices participate in the enrichment and wider curriculum opportunities that are available to them.

Report Recommendations

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