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.