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Inspection Report Recommendations

Myerscough College

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Increase the proportion of outstanding lessons by strengthening the role of advanced teaching practitioners to ensure teachers improve their professional practice.
  • Raise adult learners’ long-course success rates, particularly at intermediate level.
  • Raise functional skills success rates and ensure teachers develop better these skills in classroom activities and by correcting English and mathematics in learners’ written work.
  • Improve access to appropriate technology across the college by implementing the plan already in place and by providing additional specialist resources and assistive technologies for learners on independent living and leisure courses.
  • Develop better use of ICT across the curriculum by sharing good practice to promote more effectively its use and by placing higher expectations on staff to develop their skills to use it.
  • Strengthen strategic leadership to ensure the college gives appropriate priority to equality and diversity to ensure learners have more opportunities to develop further their understanding of equality and diversity and increase the participation rates of minority ethnic groups.

Neath Port Talbot College Group

2020 Full Inspection Report
Recommendations
  1. Improve outcomes for all learners, particularly in graded vocational qualifications
  2. Improve the quality and consistency of teaching, assessment and feedback to ensure that all learners know what they need to do to improve and are stretched and challenged to meet their potential
  3. Improve learners’ attendance
  4. Improve the quality of provision and outcomes for learners on GCSE English and mathematics courses
  5. Strengthen the use and rigour of quality assurance processes to inform planning for improvement

New City College

2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should improve the quality of education for learners on supported learning courses, so that learners develop an array of new skills, and useful accredited qualifications.
  • Leaders should ensure that all learners attend lessons at high rates.
  • Leaders should improve the pass rates for learners that take mathematics qualifications.

New College Durham

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve attendance for learners aged 16 to 18 years, particularly for those on level 1 programmes.
  • Identify the reasons for low achievement on level 1 programmes for education for young people, including in functional skills level 1 mathematics, and act swiftly to ensure that a higher proportion of learners achieve their qualifications.
  • Ensure that staff teaching learners with high needs set consistently helpful targets and use age-appropriate learning materials at all times.

New College Lanarkshire

2019 Full Inspection Report
Areas for development
  • To ensure a sound, current understanding of equality and diversity issues as well as responsibilities held by staff to minimise barriers to learning, ongoing professional updates required for staff.
  • As part of the NCL Gender Action Plan, there is a requirement to continue to work with key stakeholders to address gender imbalance in a significant number of programmes. This will include extending some of the actions undertaken in 17/18.

New College Pontefract

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Maintain the focus on improving the proportion of students achieving high grades on advanced courses.
  • Make sure that all students gain a good understanding of the expectations and opportunities in the world of work to complement their academic studies.

New College Swindon

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Implement fully, actions to ensure that teachers promote good or better progress for all learners within and outside lessons by ensuring teachers:
    • have consistently high expectations of all learners to encourage them to achieve their full potential
    • focus specifically on skills development rather than the completion of tasks, providing feedback of a consistently high quality to learners on the standard of their work, so that they know more precisely what they need to do to improve their performance
    • measure learners’ progress more frequently and thoroughly, and use challenging targets to help learners achieve their potential.
  • Reinforce clearly the expectations of vocational teachers in developing English skills across all subjects and support them to become confident and expert in these. Improve further learners’ English and mathematical skills through skilful use of vocational examples in learning and improve the teaching and learning of English by the specialist team.
  • Develop further the offer and increase the uptake of work experience so that all learners on vocational courses have a real experience of work.
  • Improve the way in which managers use the full range of data available to them to self-assess more accurately the relationship between outcomes data and the quality of teaching and learning.

New Directions College

2015 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Update the Information Technology (IT) strategy and policies to help ensure that all learners understand how to keep themselves safe online, and that tutors use IT more effectively and reinforce its appropriate use during lessons.
  • Ensure that managers take prompt action to address underperformance in key areas including:
    • communication between learning support workers and tutors
    • the structuring of the employability programmes to better meet individual needs.
  • Tutors should plan lessons more effectively to ensure that:
    • appropriate high-quality resources are available
    • they take into consideration individuals’ learning goals as well as the aims of the qualifications
    • they are aware of the strategies to use with learners who may need additional support to overcome barriers such as dyslexia or lack of confidence.
  • Analyse and use data more effectively to ensure that the self-assessment report is more evaluative and less descriptive.
  • Increase the diversity of people on the advisory board to ensure that learners’ and community views are fully represented.

Newbury College

2015 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure high quality target setting and frequent progress monitoring for all students.
  • Ensure all teachers provide precise and informative written and oral feedback that clearly tells students how they can improve and make better progress.
  • Provide high quality training and guidance to teachers so that they have the skills and confidence to teach English and mathematics in level 1 and level 2 functional skills lessons and in vocational settings so that students achieve their functional skills qualifications and successfully improve the standard of their literacy and numeracy.
  • Review and enforce strategies to ensure high attendance in all subject areas.
  • Ensure staff development and improvement activities closely align to those weaker aspects of teaching, learning and assessment identified through lesson observation, and also focus on techniques that will raise the quality of teaching, learning and assessment from good to outstanding.
  • Explore and implement arrangements to analyse, track and monitor accurately the progress students make relative to their starting points.

Newcastle & Stafford Colleges Group

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Leaders and managers have very effectively brought about the merger of Newcastle College and Stafford College. They have integrated rapidly the two campuses, setting high expectations for both staff and learners. Direction from senior leaders is clear, supportive and challenging. As a result, staff are highly motivated and feel able to provide learners with an outstanding learning experience.

Newcastle City Learning

2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that teachers have high ambitions for apprentices and provide them with the guidance and teaching that they need to achieve distinction grades on their programmes.
  • Ensure that teachers identify and correct errors in the standard of written English produced by learners with high needs, so that they can provide learners with feedback on how to improve the accuracy of their work.
  • Invest in the internal and external fabric and facilities of the buildings used by adult learners so that they can enjoy a more comfortable and inspiring learning environment.

Newcastle 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.

Newcastle Sixth Form 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.

Newham College of Further Education

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that teachers across study programmes and apprenticeships assess learners’ starting points to identify prior knowledge. They should use this information to plan a curriculum that more effectively meets learners’ individual needs.
  • Leaders should continue to improve the quality of apprenticeship programmes so that it is as good as other provision types. Notably, they should ensure that teachers plan regular, good-quality reviews of apprentices’ progress jointly with their line manager. Apprentices should have access to careers information to help them identify their next steps. Apprentices should also receive high-quality teaching of knowledge of English and mathematics skills earlier in the course, so that they can complete their studies within expected timescales.

Newham Learning & Skills

2016 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that:
    • they enable the sharing of good practice within the service so that assessment more accurately identifies the personal learning goals of all learners
    • tutors set targets that are challenging, specific and measurable so that they can measure learners’ progress accurately
    • tutors provide learners with detailed feedback on their progress and what they need to do next.
  • Increase the flexibility and capacity of the data system so that managers can analyse the performance of the service more effectively, especially the progression and destinations of learners, and demonstrate the impact of the service.
  • Ensure that tutors are better prepared to meet the education and training needs of the more-able adult learners by providing them with work that helps them make the level of progress they are capable of.

Newham Sixth Form College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Teachers should:
    • share background information on students more thoroughly
    • use this information better to inform their lesson-planning and target-setting, and to help support all students to achieve their full potential.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that A-level students, and students taking GCSE mathematics, make suitable progress from their starting points and achieve their full potential.
  • Managers and teachers should maintain the focus on the strategies recently adopted to address the gaps in performance between different groups of students, especially between male and female students.
  • Managers should review timetables to ensure that rooms have the capacity to accommodate the number of students in each lesson.

North East Institute of Technology

2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that staff teaching vocational and academic courses make good use of the detailed information in the education and health care plans of learners with high needs so that their approaches to teaching and training meet the individual needs of these learners.
  • Ensure that any additional learning and support needs that adult learners may have are identified at the start of their programmes so that appropriate support can be provided to enable these learners to remain on their courses, make good progress and achieve.
  • Ensure that all apprentices benefit from well-structured and well-sequenced training so that they make good progress in developing the theoretical knowledge they need to support them in their jobs.

Report Recommendations

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