East Riding College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Ensure that ongoing strategic developments are implemented quickly and effectively, and are fully communicated to staff.
• Ensure that staff receive sufficient support to help them to manage their workloads.
• Ensure that the plans in place for safeguarding reporting and monitoring across the group are swiftly implemented.
• Ensure that all tutors and assessors make effective use of information about learners’ and apprentices’ starting points when planning learning.
• Ensure that all adult learners benefit from effective careers information and guidance to understand how to achieve their long-term career goals.
• Ensure that learners on vocational education programmes for young people benefit from effective and suitable work experience.

East Durham College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Continue to implement actions to improve the experience of learners on the few A-level programmes where they have encountered disruption to their learning.
• Ensure that a higher proportion of learners complete their courses on the few A levels where retention is not as high as on most.
• Ensure that all adult learners on distance learning programmes are sufficiently challenged to recall and apply what they have learned.
• Ensure that all adult learners and learners with high needs in specialist provision understand the risks posed by radicalisation and extremism.

North Lindsey College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Improve the quality of education in specialist provision for learners with high needs.
• Ensure that learners with high needs across the provision understand the targets in their EHC plans and make good progress towards achieving these.
• On courses where attendance is low, identify the causes and implement actions to raise attendance rates.
• Provide learners with timely feedback on the courses where this is not good enough, which helps them to understand how to improve.

Doncaster College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Improve the quality of education in specialist provision for learners with high needs.
• Ensure that learners with high needs across the provision understand the targets in their EHC plans and make good progress towards achieving these.
• On courses where attendance is low, identify the causes and implement actions to raise attendance rates.
• Provide learners with timely feedback on the courses where this is not good enough, which helps them to understand how to improve.

Derwentside College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Encourage more young people living locally to attend the college to gain the skills that they need to take advantage of local and regional job opportunities.
• Ensure that improvements in the monitoring of apprentices’ progress and the support that is provided for apprentices who fall behind are sustained.
• Improve communication with employers to increase their involvement in apprenticeship progress reviews.
• Ensure that all teachers check that learners have fully acquired the knowledge and skills that they should have gained during previous courses so that they can identify and address any gaps in learning.

Derby Adult Learning Service - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Leaders should ensure that adult learners from all curriculum areas attend their courses at high rates.
• Leaders should gather data on all learners’ and apprentices’ destinations after they finish their courses to help them inform future curriculum changes.
• Leaders should ensure that all tutors set learners specific targets to help learners develop the weakest areas of their knowledge.

Dearne Valley College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Ensure that the attendance and punctuality of learners and apprentices continues to improve.
• Take action swiftly to improve curriculum areas that are not yet at the standard required by leaders.
• Ensure that information collected about learners and apprentices at the start of their course is used by all teachers to support learners and apprentices to make rapid progress.

North Nottinghamshire College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Ensure that the attendance and punctuality of learners and apprentices continues to improve.
• Take action swiftly to improve curriculum areas that are not yet at the standard required by leaders.
• Ensure that information collected about learners and apprentices at the start of their course is used by all teachers to support learners and apprentices to make rapid progress.

Rotherham College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Ensure that the attendance and punctuality of learners and apprentices continues to improve.
• Take action swiftly to improve curriculum areas that are not yet at the standard required by leaders.
• Ensure that information collected about learners and apprentices at the start of their course is used by all teachers to support learners and apprentices to make rapid progress.

Darlington College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Ensure that staff set high expectations of attendance in GCSE mathematics and ESOL sessions so that more students attend frequently.
• Ensure that apprentices’ prior knowledge in English and mathematics is identified at the start of their programmes so that staff can develop apprentices’ skills and understanding in these areas.
• Ensure that across all parts of the curriculum, including provision for students with high needs, employers are sufficiently involved in curriculum planning and design.
•  Provide all students with high-quality careers information, advice and guidance early in their programme, to support them to identify potential career and training routes for their chosen next steps.

College of Animal Welfare - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Leaders and managers need to ensure that workplace supervisors of apprentices on level 3 veterinary nursing fully understand their role. Leaders need to have effective, ongoing communication with workplace supervisors to ensure that supervisors provide good support to apprentices to complete their qualifications.
• Senior leaders need to ensure that apprentices receive ongoing impartial career advice and guidance to enable apprentices to consider the full range of career options available to them.

Coleg Sir Gâr

2022 Full Inspection Report

Recommendations

1. Make better use of the extensive data the college has to further refine the evaluation of the impact of provision and initiatives
2. Strengthen strategies to improve learners’ understanding of radicalisation and extremism
3. Ensure that learners’ numeracy skills and wider mathematical skills are developed fully to address their skills gaps

City of Wolverhampton College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Leaders and managers should continue to improve the quality of education that apprentices receive, to ensure that they complete their apprenticeship successfully and achieve grades of which they are capable.
• Managers should ensure that learners studying English and mathematics attend their lessons more frequently, in order to improve their knowledge and skills development, so that they achieve their very best in these qualifications.
• Leaders and managers should improve the tracking of skills and behaviours of learners with high needs who are on discrete employability courses. They need to ensure that teachers plan and monitor the skills learners develop in preparation for their next steps.
• Leaders, managers and teachers should ensure that all learners and apprentices receive feedback which is clear and developmental so that learners and apprentices improve the standard of their work over time.
• Leaders should ensure that all learners and apprentices are aware of the range of opportunities available to them after they complete their studies so that they can make suitably informed decisions for their futures.

Chesterfield College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Leaders should ensure that young people attend their GCSE English and mathematics classes well. They should support teachers to provide consistent feedback on students’ written work to help them achieve high grades.
• Leaders and managers should support the few teachers who do not use lesson time as well as they could do to develop their approaches to planning and assessment.
• Leaders should ensure that all students on entry-level pathway courses benefit from appropriate work-related activities.
• Leaders should support teachers to better develop adults’ understanding and awareness of British values and how they impact on their daily lives.

Carlisle 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.

Calderdale College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Ensure that all training officers maintain effective contact with apprentices’ employers and provide apprentices with frequent and helpful reviews.
• Ensure that all students with high needs in specialist provision develop the skills that they need to make rapid progress.

Brighton, Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College - Outstanding

2022 Full Inspection Report

There are no suggested improvements.

Bridgend College

2022 Full Inspection Report

Recommendations

1. The college should strengthen its evaluation of the impact of initiatives to raise learners’ awareness of radicalisation and terrorism so it is assured that all learners understand how to stay safe
2. In the light of the disruption caused to learners during the pandemic, continue to develop strategies to build learners’ resilience
3. Ensure that learners overcome any gaps in prior learning that impair their literacy and numeracy skills

Aldridge Adult Learning - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Leaders and managers should improve their monitoring of the pastoral curriculum to understand the impact of this area of provision.
• Leaders should ensure that all employers understand apprentices’ progress and learning as well as requirements for the final assessments, so that they can better support apprentices to achieve.
• Leaders should ensure that links with employers are improved to better inform the adult learning curriculum.
• Leaders should make sure that all apprentices and learners understand how to keep themselves safe from potential risks associated with extremism and radicalisation.

Cardinal Newman College - Outstanding

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Leaders provide an ambitious, focused and high-quality curriculum offer. They provide a range of mostly level 3 courses to meet the needs of a diverse range of young people in the local area. This includes a broad variety of A level and vocational programmes to provide progression to university, apprenticeships or employment. Leaders provide a highly effective foundation learning programme for young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) that helps them to achieve in line with their peers and prepares them for their next steps in independence, further training or employment.

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Cambridge Regional College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Managers should ensure that learning support mentors in supported learning use their skills appropriately to support students who need it. Staff need to gauge accurately when they should intervene to provide support so that students can make good progress.
• Leaders and managers should ensure that students attend their English and mathematics lessons frequently and that they arrive at their lessons on time.
• Leaders and managers should ensure that teachers and assessor trainers correct students’ and apprentices’ spelling, punctuation and grammar consistently so that students and apprentices develop high level English skills to prepare them appropriately for future employment.
• Leaders and managers should take appropriate action to ensure that apprentices recruited on apprenticeship programmes remain on their apprenticeship and gain their qualifications.

City of Bristol College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Increase the number of learners who benefit from work-related activity and/or formal work experience.
• Provide a comprehensive personal development programme for all students and apprentices.
• Improve the quality and range of impartial careers information, advice and guidance.
• Enhance quality assurance to focus more on the quality of education.
• Ensure that all staff get the professional development they need to improve their practice so that they better understand how to support learners with high needs and provide more useful feedback for students and apprentices.

Cadbury Sixth Form College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Leaders and managers should ensure that all apprenticeship programmes include a clearly defined curriculum, appropriate structure and enough well-planned tuition to enable all apprentices to develop a suitable range of skills and knowledge to the required level.
• Managers should review the small number of courses in which the curriculum is not ambitious enough so that course content and teaching are challenging for all learners.
• Managers should ensure that all courses provide enough opportunities for learners to revisit topics they have previously studied so that they can practise their skills and strengthen their recall of information.
• Managers should ensure that all learners’ work is marked promptly. They should ensure that all staff understand and apply the principles of effective feedback.

Sandwell College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Leaders and managers should ensure that all apprenticeship programmes include a clearly defined curriculum, appropriate structure and enough well-planned tuition to enable all apprentices to develop a suitable range of skills and knowledge to the required level.
• Managers should review the small number of courses in which the curriculum is not ambitious enough so that course content and teaching are challenging for all learners.
• Managers should ensure that all courses provide enough opportunities for learners to revisit topics they have previously studied so that they can practise their skills and strengthen their recall of information.
• Managers should ensure that all learners’ work is marked promptly. They should ensure that all staff understand and apply the principles of effective feedback.

City Literary Institute - Outstanding

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Leaders have created a very well-considered curriculum to meet closely the needs of distinct groups of students and which embodies the concept of lifelong learning. Students explore their interests and ambitions and develop their talents to a high level. They maintain positive well-being through studying the arts, music and languages. Leaders provide valuable specialist provision through ESOL courses, learning disability education and learning for the deaf community. They enable students to gain new professional skills in courses such as counselling and digital skills to help them to succeed in their careers and professional development.

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Winstanley College - Outstanding

2025 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Leaders and teachers are aspirational for what their students can achieve. They have designed highly ambitious curriculums that prepare students very effectively for their next steps in education or employment. Leaders inspire students to fulfil their potential by engendering a steadfast commitment and passion for their studies.

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