Inspection Report Recommendations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hereford Sixth Form College - Outstanding

2023 Full Inspection Report
No areas for improvement

Sunderland 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.

etc.

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.

etc.

Richmond upon Thames 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.

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.

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.

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.

Leeds City 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.

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.

etc.

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.

Stratford-upon-Avon College - 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.

Solihull College - 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.

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.

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

Farnborough Sixth Form College - Outstanding

2021 Full Inspection Report
No areas for improvement

Farnborough College of Technology - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve teaching and assessment in AS- and A-level courses so learners acquire the knowledge they need and know how to achieve the grades they are capable of.
  • Improve the quality of education for young people so they receive consistently high-quality teaching.

Exeter College - Outstanding

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers need to ensure that the course specifically designed for learners with high needs is sufficiently challenging, ambitious and individualised, to meet each learners’ needs.

Esher College - Outstanding

2008 Full Inspection Report
No areas for improvement

East Sussex College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Further embed and strengthen strategies to increase attendance in English and mathematics lessons.
  • Improve retention and achievement in online adult courses through more structured and focused careers information, advice and guidance for students.
  • Ensure that apprentices complete their programmes within expected timeframes.

East Surrey 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.