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Inspection Report Recommendations

Hopwood Hall College

2011 Full Inspection Report
What does Hopwood Hall College need to do to improve further?
  • Embed and accelerate year-on-year improvement in success rates so that variability in achievement and retention on some courses is tackled. In particular, improve the use of data by some curriculum managers so that they are used more sharply and precisely to evaluate learners’ progress. Improve attendance to lessons across all courses.
  • Review and develop target setting and the recording of progress across all curriculum areas and in tutorial provision. Ensure that targets are sufficiently clear, time referenced and achievable so as to meet individual needs. Ensure that the recording of progress clearly states the advances made.
  • Develop links between curriculum areas and employers so as to improve opportunities for learners and to develop curriculum options further.
  • Improve the gender and ethnic balance of staff and governors to reflect more closely that of the community and learner profiles.

Hugh Baird College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Lecturers should use the information from learners’ and apprentices’ starting points to plan learning that challenges:
    • the most able learners to make the progress of which they are capable
    • apprentices to develop new skills and make rapid progress.
  • Leaders and managers should bring about rapid improvements in the quality of the apprenticeship provision by:
    • improving the proportion of apprentices who achieve on health and social care, construction and electrotechnical apprenticeships
    • identifying and narrowing achievement gaps for apprentices, including those on advanced-level programmes, apprentices aged 16 to 23 and those with learning difficulties and/or disabilities
    • increasing the proportion of apprentices studying with the subcontractor, Absolute Training Solutions, who achieve their apprenticeship within the planned time.
  • Leaders and managers should improve learners’ and apprentices’ attendance on the courses where the rates are too low.

Hull College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that leaders’ plans to improve the quality of education, particularly for learners aged 16 to 18, are effectively implemented.
  • Ensure that teachers plan successfully the curriculum for learners aged 16 to 18 and provide learners with high-quality, developmental feedback to ensure that learners rapidly develop significant new knowledge and skills.
  • Rapidly improve learners’ attendance and punctuality, particularly for 16- to 18- year-old learners and adults studying English and mathematics, to ensure that learners develop the skills and knowledge needed to achieve their qualifications.
  • Quickly develop teachers’ skills and knowledge to fully implement the personal development curriculum for learners aged 16 to 18.
  • Ensure that 16- to 18-year-old learners understand what it is like to work in their chosen industry sectors through meaningful and relevant work experience placements and work-related activities.
  • Ensure that apprentices receive impartial careers advice and guidance to help them understand what longer term careers options are available to them outside their current employer organisations.

Hull Training & Adult Education

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

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

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that:
    • the action planning following direct observation of taught sessions is both sufficiently detailed and used to improve tutors’ professional practice quickly
    • all tutors consistently plan and record learners’ non-accredited programme attainment targets to a high standard that promotes learners’ progress and achievement
    • tutors develop all younger learners’ understanding of fundamental British values and how to protect themselves from the harmful effects of extremism and radicalisation
    • the rate at which young learners achieve English and mathematics qualifications at GCSE is significantly improved so that their future employment opportunities are increased
    • strategies are introduced to raise and sustain high attendance on all community learning and study programmes sessions.

Isle of Wight College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Increase the proportion of 16- to 18-year-old students who achieve their mathematics and English qualifications or improve their GCSE grade, by:
    • ensuring that teachers promote the benefits to students of achieving these qualifications and improve attendance in lessons
    • continuing to implement and review the well-planned strategies already in place to improve the teaching, learning and assessment of mathematics and English.
  • Improve the quality of targets set by staff for students by ensuring that:
    • assessors set targets to support apprentices in improving their written skills
    • teachers set and review clear and precise targets for all students that not only support them to achieve their qualifications, but focus on the development of their wider skills development and areas for improvement. 

Itchen College

2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers need to improve further students’ attendance.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure apprentices benefit from well-planned, high-quality off-the-job training and develop their mathematics and English skills beyond the requirements of the apprenticeship.
  • Leaders and managers need to further increase the range of, and participation in, enrichment activities to broaden students’ personal interests and support their well-being.

John Leggott College

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Sustain and continue the strategies that have led to the improvements made in teaching and learning over the last three years so as to eradicate the remaining small proportion of weaker teaching. Ensure that:
    • all students are questioned more skilfully so that they are stretched and challenged in their learning
    • on all courses, students are given work that is sufficiently demanding both in lessons and for independent study.
  • Increase students’ attainment and progress in a small minority of subjects where these are still low. Ensure that maximum use of value added data is made to identify all courses where students are underperforming, and then:
    • review all aspects of teaching, learning and assessment on those courses to identify what is needed to improve
    • continue to increase the proportion of higher grades so that they exceed the national average.
  • Improve attendance on intermediate courses through the continued and accelerated use of present strategies.
  • Ensure that all managers have clarity and sharpness in understanding the root causes of underperformance so that improvement strategies have universal impact across all courses on the quality and improvement of teaching and learning and students’ outcomes.

John Ruskin College

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Review the strategy for English and mathematics so that more students achieve at least a grade higher than their previous level of attainment, and success rates return to their previous high levels.
  • Build on the existing good and outstanding practice in teaching, learning and assessment, so that all teachers plan effectively to meet the needs of all students and apprentices, with a sharper focus on providing stretch and challenge for the most able students.
  • Ensure that all teachers make good use of learning technologies; deploy learning support staff well; use teaching strategies that stimulate and engage all students; and securely embed the development of skills in English and mathematics skills into all lessons.
  • Build on the successful use of the quality improvement plan, to intervene where performance has declined, so that the outcomes in all subjects mirror those of the outstanding provision in the college.
  • Ensure that all teachers can learn from the good practice in the college and have the confidence to promote equality and diversity more effectively in lessons.

Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders should maintain a strong and relentless focus on strategies for improvement in outcomes for the small number of students taking AS and A levels in subjects such as physics, arts, and English who do not make the progress expected of them.
  • Ensure that the accommodation used to teach adult learners in the college’s annex mirrors the spacious and high-quality facilities provided to students aged 16 to 19.

Keighley 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.

Kendal College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders and managers should bring about rapid improvements in the quality of the apprenticeship provision by:
    • ensuring that the data reports that they receive are relevant, accurate and timely
    • ensuring that teachers improve the progress apprentices make by planning their lessons so that activities are sufficiently ambitious, interesting and relevant.
  • Teachers should ensure that they set suitably demanding work for learners. In particular, teachers should ensure that they challenge the most able learners to achieve the grades of which they are capable.
  • Leaders, managers and staff should continue to focus their improvement strategies on underperforming courses. They should continue to increase the proportion of learners achieving their qualifications, including in functional skills and GCSE grades A* to C in English and mathematics.

Kent Adult Education Service

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should improve the number of apprentices who complete their apprenticeship in a timely manner.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that tutors improve the standards of learners’ written English and increase their understanding of mathematics in their chosen course.
  • Tutors should ensure that they use an appropriate range of teaching and assessment strategies, providing opportunities for learners to recall topics and improve the retention of their new knowledge and its application to their learning or workplace activities.

Kidderminster College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the quality of education for apprentices by:
    • identifying the starting points of apprentices more accurately, so that skills trainers can plan and teach programmes that enable apprentices to develop substantial new knowledge, skills and behaviours
    • developing more effective links with employers so that they are fully involved in the planning of on-the-job training
    • ensuring that managers provide more rigorous scrutiny of the progress that apprentices make in the development of their knowledge, skills and behaviours
    • providing all apprentices with the opportunity to receive careers advice.
  • Ensure that all teachers and learning support assistants have secure knowledge in the subjects they teach and in which they provide support.
  • Increase the attendance of learners at English and mathematics lessons.

King Edward VI College, Nuneaton

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

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Enable more students to achieve their best by:
    • ensuring that all teachers use the current student profiles and assessments of learners’ starting points to plan and execute learning activities that reflect the different needs of students, enabling them to make swift progress.
  • Improve the learning and progress of the most able students by:
    • focusing more closely on the progress of these learners during the observations of teaching, learning and assessment in the college
    • ensuring a greater sharing of the good practice of teachers who successfully extend learning and provide increasing levels of challenge
    • providing relevant training and development for teachers to support them in designing activities for the most able students.
  • Improve the support for students who wish to progress directly into employment and training by:
    • increasing the proportion of students who benefit from a high-quality work experience placement
    • improving the advice and guidance for those students who wish to progress to higher-level apprenticeships or directly to employment.
  • Improve students’ understanding of British values by:
    • ensuring that students understand the concepts of democracy, respect, and the rule of law, so that they can discuss and appreciate their relevance to life in modern Britain.

King George V College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that all teachers on adult English and mathematics courses plan a sufficiently demanding curriculum that challenges learners to achieve high grades in their qualifications.
  • Ensure that the curriculum for apprentices, particularly those in engineering and health and social care, develops their knowledge, skills and behaviours quickly.
  • Ensure that adult learners on English and mathematics courses and apprentices in engineering attend their courses regularly.
  • Ensure that learners and apprentices develop a good understanding of radicalisation and extremism and how it applies to them.

Kingston Maurward College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders need to improve the quality of foundation programmes so that learners who study on these are taught the skills they need to progress rapidly to the next stage of their education or training.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that all learners and apprentices, including learners with EHC plans, receive unbiased and high-quality careers education, information, advice and guidance.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure all learners develop further their English skills.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that all teachers are trained on how to effectively support learners who have high needs.

Kirklees College

2012 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Increase the proportion of learners aged 16 to18 on advanced courses who stay to the end of their courses, by ensuring that teaching, training and assessment on these programmes are always of the highest quality. Build on the work that has started to ensure that learners are always enrolled on the right courses. Ensure the steep rise in retention rates across the college is replicated on advanced courses for learners aged 16 to 18 by ensuring that staff share best practice.
  • Improve apprenticeship training by ensuring that staff and employers understand the need for apprentices to complete their qualifications on time. Ensure that apprentices receive clear advice and guidance regarding targets for completing different aspects of their programme. Use data more effectively to identify areas where training is taking too long and take urgent remedial action if apprentices are falling behind.
  • Consolidate the improvements made to the quality of teaching, learning and assessment by ensuring that teaching always challenges the more-able learners. Ensure that all teachers use lesson plans to personalise the work they set for learners and take into account their prior attainment and abilities. Focus staff development for teachers on sharing good practice in developing robust questioning techniques and marking. Ensure that teachers set high aspirational targets for all learners no matter what their prior educational experience has been.
  • Develop the skills of teachers across all curriculum areas to enable them to provide better support for learners who need to improve their literacy skills. Enhance the links between specialist functional skills teachers and teachers in vocational subjects to ensure an effective approach to the marking and assessment of spelling, presentation and grammar. Increase the proportion of learners who gain high grades in GCSE English by ensuring that specialist referrals for literacy support are made swiftly and that the use of independent learning and homework give learners more time to practise written English.

Knowsley Community College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Governors should establish a stable leadership team that creates an aspirational culture and ambitious curriculum where students and apprentices thrive and achieve.
  • Design programmes for students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities well so that they are prepared effectively for adulthood.
  • Ensure that teachers plan a curriculum that challenges students to achieve high grades in their qualifications.
  • Ensure that the curriculum for apprentices, particularly those on engineering and construction frameworks, develops their knowledge, skills and behaviours quickly.
  • Improve careers information, advice and guidance so that these are clear, accurate and meaningful so that students and apprentices understand the range of options available to them to meet their aspirations.
  • Ensure that students attend their courses regularly.

Lakes College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve further the English skills of apprentices and the English and mathematics skills of adult learners on employability courses by planning lessons and activities that include the development of their English and mathematics skills.
  • Increase the proportion of learners who achieve their qualifications in hairdressing, the early years, accounting and GCSE English and mathematics grades A* to C and 9 to 4 by ensuring that:
    • managers continue to focus on helping teachers in these areas to improve their teaching practice
    • managers continue to implement the performance management process and rigorously monitor teachers’ progress against clear and robust targets.
  • Use the information on learners’ starting points to plan learning that enables all learners to make the progress of which they are capable, in particular for the most able.

Lancashire Adult Learning

2008 Full Inspection Report
Areas for improvement

The college should address:

  • the progress made by GCE AS students and their overall success rate, which are currently satisfactory
  • the need to continue to develop the use of ILT.

Lancaster & Morecambe College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that the recording of the progress of learners with high needs, against their EHC plan outcomes, effectively identifies what skills, knowledge and behaviours they have consolidated. Consider and plan for what learners still need to learn to ensure that they are ready for their next steps.
  • Further improve attendance and punctuality so that learners on all programmes attend regularly, complete their programmes and develop the skills required for employment.
  • Ensure that apprentices and learners on ‘Aspire’ programmes receive timely and up-to-date relevant careers advice and guidance so that they can make decisions on their next steps.

Leeds City 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.

Report Recommendations

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