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Inspection Report Recommendations

Knowsley Community College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that teachers use information about young people’s and adult students’ starting points to plan and teach ambitious programmes that prepare students for their next steps and develop their learning beyond the requirements of the qualification.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that young people and adults attend their classes frequently, so that they remain on their courses and achieve their qualifications.
  • Teachers should improve feedback following assessment on programmes for adults and young people, so that it is prompt and of a consistently high standard and helps students know what they need to do to improve their work.
  • Leaders and managers should provide all students with consistently high-quality careers guidance across all subjects that helps students to plan their next steps in education, employment or training.
  • Leaders and managers should tackle staff shortages and ensure that staff have a manageable workload that is balanced equally across all staff.

Lakes College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the quality of teaching that adult learners receive to provide them with the support they need to prepare them for their next steps.
  • Improve the quality of teaching on the minority of poorly performing apprenticeships so that all apprentices receive the same high-quality teaching.
  • Ensure that all teachers set sufficiently precise targets for all learners and apprentices to enable the effective monitoring of their progress.
  • Ensure that all learners and apprentices, including those with high needs, understand the risks associated with radicalisation and extremism.
  • 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 - Outstanding

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

Leaders have designed curriculums that are highly ambitious and help learners and apprentices to build their knowledge, skills and behaviours over time. For example, adult learners on tailored family learning on the early years, education and childcare pathway firstly study family English and mathematics and subjects such as robotics and coding with their children in community settings. They continue to build on their learning and develop and apply their knowledge and skills when they study a level 1 or level 2 qualification in support work in schools and colleges. Consequently, many adult learners improve their confidence significantly and find jobs or volunteer in schools. Young learners on the digital production, design and development T level learn about emerging technologies and business environments in their first year. The knowledge they gain in year one helps them to learn and apply more complex knowledge and skills in year two, such as when they write project proposals.

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Lancaster & Morecambe College - Good

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.

Learn Ealing - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the quality of feedback so that learners on all courses are clear on how they can improve their work.
  • Take effective actions to ensure that tutors plan and teach sufficiently challenging lessons.

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.

Leeds College of Building - Requires Improvement

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that actions currently being taken lead to rapid improvements in attendance, punctuality and students arriving at lessons ready to learn.
  • Ensure that apprentices who require English and mathematics qualifications achieve these in time to progress to end-point assessment.
  • Improve the oversight of provision to gain assurance that students and apprentices are making good progress.
  • Ensure that managers follow up improvement actions identified through quality assurance activities and evaluate their impact.
  • Ensure that students on study programmes benefit from meaningful encounters with the world of work.
  • Improve processes for target setting and measuring the progress of students with high needs to ensure that they make good progress and achieve well.

Leeds Sixth Form 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.

Leicester College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve attendance for students on education programmes for young people.
  • Ensure all learners with high needs have appropriately challenging targets.
  • Support the few teachers who need help to improve their curriculum planning, use of activities in class and assessment approaches.
  • Improve achievement rates on functional skills mathematics and retention rates on the few courses where it is too low.

Lewisham 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.

Leyton Sixth Form College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase the proportion of students who complete their qualifications in the few courses where achievement is too low.
  • Improve the monitoring of progress for learners who have EHC plans to make sure they have well-planned opportunities to work towards their outcomes.
  • Make sure that a higher proportion of students attend their lessons on time.

Lincoln College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase attendance rates for students on education programmes for young people on those courses with poor attendance.
  • Support the few teachers who need to develop their skills in planning, how they provide explanations and their use of assessment.
  • Continue to improve retention and achievement rates on GCSE English and mathematics and for the remaining courses where they are too low.

London Academy of Excellence - Outstanding

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • To further raise attainment and to narrow any achievement gaps between different departments and subjects, further implement leaders’ and managers’ agreed strategies for improvement.
  • Continue to develop and encourage the sharing of strong practice by teachers, to maximise opportunities for the further improvement of teaching, learning and assessment.
  • To further enhance students’ learning, continue teachers’ development in the use of innovative learning technologies, including the best use of the planned expansion of ‘blended learning’.

London College of Beauty Therapy - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the attendance of learners.
  • Continue to improve further the proportion of learners who achieve their qualifications.
  • Improve learners’ knowledge on how to recognise extremist behaviours and the signs of radicalisation.

London Learning Consortium - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Make sure that a high proportion of apprentices achieve their qualifications in the planned time, and that a high proportion of learners and apprentices achieve a grade 4 or higher in GCSE English and mathematics.
  • Provide vocational and SEND training and development opportunities for staff to enhance their skills and expertise.
  • Provide opportunities for learners and apprentices to explore their talents and interests outside of their core curriculum.

London South East Colleges - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Use the information they gather on what learners know and can do on level 1 courses at the start of their courses to plan and teach challenging content and activities appropriate to learners’ existing knowledge and skills.
  • Monitor the quality of apprenticeship training and the progress that apprentices make to make sure that apprentices complete their courses and achieve their qualifications in a timely manner.
  • Make sure that young learners attend all the components of their programmes well, including English and mathematics lessons, and tutorials.
  • Continue to manage the conduct of learners so that across all sites their behaviour is of the high standard expected.

Long Road Sixth Form College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Support those small minority of subjects where teaching is not consistently to a high standard to improve rapidly so that all students make at least expected progress from their starting points.
  • Increase the proportion of students who participate in the activities available to them outside their timetabled classes.
  • Provide ongoing and improved training to students so that they develop a more thorough understanding of the dangers of radicalisation and extremism and a better awareness of how to keep themselves safe from local risks.

Longley Park Sixth Form College - Good

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that all teachers plan and teach challenging lessons that inspire all students, including the most able, to make fast progress.
  • Analyse the reasons why a minority of students on A-level courses and White British students underperform, and act quickly to improve performance.
  • Improve the analysis of data, particularly on students’ participation in work experience and the destinations of students progressing into employment, and use this analysis to identify fully strengths and weaknesses in course content relating to employability, and to make improvements where needed.

Loreto College - Outstanding

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that employers are routinely involved in the planning of on- and off-the-job training and reviews of their apprentices to support apprentices to make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Leaders should identify what apprentices already know and can do at the start of their programme and use this information to ensure they plan a challenging and individualised curriculum.
  • Leaders should review the curriculum for learners with high needs on the ‘choices’ programme to ensure it is challenging and prepares them for future learning or work.
  • Leaders should ensure that they put appropriate actions in place to ensure learners with low attendance attend college regularly.

Loughborough College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that curriculum plans for all apprenticeship programmes clearly identify the material to be learned and the ways in which it will be taught.
  • Ensure that all learners with high needs benefit from individualised learning plans that address their personal development needs.
  • Ensure that all apprentices have access to appropriate careers information, advice and guidance.

Lowestoft Sixth Form College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Implement actions to increase the proportion of apprentices who achieve their qualifications in a timely manner.
  • Implement actions to increase the proportion of younger students on diploma and A levels who remain on their courses and achieve their qualifications.
  • Make sure students’ starting points are used effectively to set tasks that are challenging on the few programmes for young people and in the specialist provision for students with high needs where students find work too easy.

Luton Adult Learning Service - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders must ensure that apprentices achieve within the planned time frame.
  • Leaders must ensure that apprentices understand the range of career opportunities available to them in the wider employment market.
  • Leaders must ensure that learners on community learning courses receive good quality developmental feedback so that learners are clear on what they have done well and what they need to improve.

Luton Sixth Form College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the retention and pass rates on the few vocational courses where these are low.
  • Improve student attendance in lessons, particularly GCSE English, mathematics and second-year vocational courses.
  • Provide opportunities for students not planning to go to university to receive sufficient and timely CIAG to help them prepare for their next steps.
  • Improve employer involvement in the design and review of programmes and qualifications.

Macclesfield College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Instigate appropriate actions to ensure that students on education programmes for young people attend their lessons regularly.
  • Strengthen quality assurance and improvement processes to rapidly improve the quality of education for young people.
  • Improve the use of EHC plans for students with high needs to ensure that they make swift progress towards achieving these outcomes as part of their curriculums.
  • Improve the planning and teaching of the curriculums for students on education programmes for young people.
  • Ensure the starting points of students on education programmes for young people are used effectively to plan learning.

Manchester Adult Education Service - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that learners develop a good understanding of the risks associated with radicalisation and extremism and how it applies to them in their personal lives and at work.
  • Leaders should ensure that they fully embed their careers guidance programme across all curriculums and centres so that learners receive independent information, advice and guidance that helps them to make informed career choices.
  • Leaders should put in place suitably robust plans to help learners with high needs who are transitioning out of MAES know what actions they need to take to prepare for their next steps.

Manchester College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Provide feedback to students that tells them what they need to do to improve their work and challenges them to strive higher.
  • Use questioning techniques that are effective in encouraging students to participate fully in class discussions.
  • Fully incorporate students’ EHC plan targets into teaching so the progress of students with high needs can be accurately monitored.
  • Increase students’ attendance on the few courses where attendance is still too low.

Report Recommendations

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