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Inspection Report Recommendations

Luton Adult Learning Service

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Review individual learning plans to check whether these set challenging targets aimed at extending learners’ knowledge and skills. Combine this with closer monitoring of the quality of written feedback to learners so they know how they can improve their work further.
  • Develop further the frequent and systematic monitoring of teachers’ classroom practices so that managers know where best to focus their quality assurance activities to bring about further improvements in teaching and learning.
  • Identify ways to gather meaningful, up-to-date and accurate data to evaluate fully the success of courses and to develop progression routes further.

Luton Sixth Form College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Enable more students to achieve their best by leaders ensuring that:
    • all teaching staff record student assessments regularly, in a way which enables progress mentors to identify students who are underperforming
    • students on science and mathematics A-level courses achieve as well as they are capable.
  • Improve the development of students’ skills for employment by:
    • ensuring that each student has an individual plan for developing the skills that they will need for their chosen career path or vocational area of interest
    • increasing significantly the proportion of students who undertake a high-quality work experience placement.
  • Improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment by:
    • providing relevant training and development for teachers to support them in designing activities to extend the learning of the most able students
    • sharing more widely the good practice of teachers who successfully provide students with more challenging activities
    • ensuring that teachers have the plans, skills and confidence to support the development of students’ mathematical skills in all courses.

Macclesfield College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve further the quality of teaching, learning and assessment. To do this:
    • take swift action to improve the attendance of learners on 16 to 19 study programmes and adult learning programmes who do not attend their lessons regularly
    • improve staff development for teachers, particularly those on adult learning programmes and those identified as underperforming. Offer high-quality training and enable teachers to share good practice across all areas of the college, so that they improve their teaching skills and provide consistently good teaching and learning
    • make good use of the information on individual learners’ starting points and progress to plan lessons and activities that constantly challenge learners, particularly the most able, and which enable them to achieve or exceed their targets.
  • Improve the effectiveness of self-assessment processes and quality improvement planning to ensure that leaders, managers and governors have an accurate view of the college’s strengths and weaknesses. Ensure that managers challenge their teams to analyse weaknesses accurately and regularly, and identify specific actions for improvement, rather than merely complying with procedures.

Manchester Adult Education Service

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Further improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment by:
    • setting clear targets for all learners and accurately measuring learners’ progress against their targets
    • ensuring that all tutors plan and deliver activities that provide sufficient opportunity for learners to participate fully and actively in their learning
    • making better use of learning technology to enhance teaching and learning
    • ensuring that learners receive guidance, as they complete their course, on further higher-level learning opportunities offered by other providers.
  • Promote the sharing of best practice across the service by identifying outstanding tutors through the observation process and enabling them to work with other tutors to improve further the quality of teaching, learning and assessment.
  • Increase the rigour in monitoring the quality and consistency of assessment of learners’ progress on courses that do not lead to qualifications.
  • Collect and analyse information more systematically on the destination of learners after they have completed their course, in order to assess the impact of learning on future study and employment.

Manchester College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve attendance, particularly in English and mathematics, by making sure that teachers have appropriately high expectations for students that closely reflect workplace demands.
  • Ensure that students who have high needs develop the personal skills they need for adult life, rather than teachers planning and delivering learning that focuses too narrowly on the requirements of qualifications.
  • Ensure that a much higher proportion of students studying GCSE English and mathematics achieve a grade 4 or above.
  • Ensure that teachers of A-level courses plan and deliver learning that is high quality so that a much higher proportion of students achieve their full potential.

Marine Society College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Further develop the arrangements to record learners’ progression and destinations to include those seafarers completing the pre-courses in ‘maths@sea’ and ‘English@sea’, and use this information to evaluate how effectively these courses support learners to move on to higher levels of qualification and learning.
  • Ensure that all learners complete the necessary ‘Prevent’ duty training. Staff should support learners to understand the relevance and reasons for completing courses and how this relates to their work and everyday lives.
  • Ensure that managers follow up the recommendations given to tutors at the subcontractor, after they sample learners’ work and in order to confirm that actions for improvement have been implemented.

Marple Sixth Form College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • As a matter of utmost urgency, governors, leaders and managers should make swift improvements to the standard of apprenticeships. They should increase the proportion of apprentices who achieve their programme on time. They should do this by:
    • ensuring that all apprentices receive a rigorous assessment at the start of their apprenticeship to identify what they already know and can do; assessors should use information from this assessment to ensure that apprentices develop substantial new knowledge, skills and behaviours
    • ensuring that all apprentices receive their entitlement to well-planned, high-quality off the-job training and ensure that apprentices make good progress on their programme
    • identifying the specific aspects of the programme that need to be improved and meticulously monitoring the impact of changes that they make so that the quality of training that apprentices receive improves swiftly.
  • Governors should hold senior leaders stringently to account for the performance of the apprenticeship programme.
  • Managers should ensure that assessors provide useful feedback on students’ and apprentices’ work to improve the standard of their work.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that they accurately evaluate and act effectively to improve the quality of the provision for students with high needs and apprenticeships.

Mary Ward Centre

2015 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Provide training for all teachers so that they have the confidence and knowledge to integrate mathematics and ILT effectively into their lessons to develop and enhance learners’ skills. Ensure that all teachers use the results from initial and on-going assessment consistently well to help match teaching to individual learning needs.
  • Strengthen the priority to improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment to outstanding by using the findings from the observation of teaching, learning and assessment to deliver relevant staff development.
  • Improve the rigour of trustees’ monitoring of the quality of provision, and of their challenge to managers’ to improve performance, by providing them with better management information on the quality of teaching, learning and assessment.

Merthyr Tydfil College

2016 Full Inspection Report
Recommendations
  1. Improve the rate at which learners successfully complete their qualifications across all learning areas
  2. Enhance and promote the opportunities for staff and learners to develop their Welsh language skills
  3. Make sure that all targets for learners are specific, challenging and measureable 
  4. Improve the quality and consistency of teaching and assessment across the college 
  5. Improve the robustness of self-assessment, including the use of a wider range of data, to identify and monitor areas for improvement more effectively

Middlesbrough College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that all teachers enable learners on study programmes and adult learning programmes to develop their English and mathematical skills within their main qualifications.
  • Ensure that a much greater proportion of learners studying English and mathematics achieve high-grade passes in GCSE English and mathematics, and that a higher proportion of adult learners achieve their functional skills qualifications at levels higher than those that they already hold.
  • Accelerate the pace of change in tackling the weaknesses in the apprenticeship provision to improve the quality of education that apprentices receive and ensure that apprentices make quicker progress.
  • Ensure that teachers on A-level courses plan and use high-quality learning activities that support and challenge a much higher proportion of learners to achieve their potential.

Middlesbrough Community Learning

2016 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve the quality of the weaker teaching so that all learners across all aspects of the provision enjoy an excellent experience.
  • Improve the retention and success rates for adults undertaking accredited qualifications.

MidKent College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders and managers should improve the quality of apprenticeship courses by:
    • improving the testing of learning so that staff check in more detail how well apprentices develop their knowledge
    • increasing the level of challenge for those apprentices who miss deadlines or do not attend their off-the-job training
    • improving target-setting so that staff set challenging targets which focus on developing apprentices’ skills, knowledge and behaviours
    • improving the level of apprentices’ literacy and numeracy skills by ensuring that they all practise and develop these skills in both the classroom and the workplace.
  • Improve further teaching, learning and assessment in GCSE English and mathematics classes so that a higher proportion gain grades 4 to 9, ensuring that students complete work that challenges them and helps them improve their skills.
  • Ensure that attendance continues to improve in all areas of the curriculum, and particularly for students studying English and mathematics.

Milton Keynes College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders and managers should continue to implement their well-conceived strategies to further improve the proportion of students who achieve their qualifications.
  • Managers should ensure that more students and apprentices are able to improve their skills in English and mathematics and achieve their GCSE qualifications, in line with their specific targets.
  • Leaders and managers should further improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment in the small minority of lessons where students make insufficiently rapid progress by ensuring that:
    • teachers provide sufficient challenge to the most able students, so that they make good progress and achieve or exceed their target grades
    • all students and apprentices are set aspirational targets, taking into account their starting points.
  • Managers should continue to increase opportunities for external work experience placements for vocational students, particularly for those at level 2, so that they are able to learn about and experience work in their vocational area. This should include increasing the number of supported internships for students in receipt of high-needs funding.
  • Managers should take effective steps to ensure that students’ attendance improves further, across all subjects, to increase their opportunities to make good progress.

Morley College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment, by ensuring that:
    • tutors set and agree challenging targets for students, so that they know what they need to do to improve their skills and knowledge
    • tutors use questioning techniques that are effective in checking and extending students’ learning, so that students understand each topic before they move on to the next
    • students attend their lessons frequently.
  • Increase the proportion of students who achieve their qualifications in externally accredited courses by enrolling students onto the correct courses that meet their needs and aspirations, so that they complete all the components of their courses.

Moulton College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Use data and self-assessment processes more effectively, so that governors, leaders and managers know accurately what improvements have been made and what they need to do to secure future improvements.
  • Ensure that students attend lessons frequently, particularly in English and mathematics lessons.
  • Improve the training and support given to teachers to ensure that teachers:
    • have high expectations of what students can do and achieve so that they produce written and practical work of a high standard – provide challenging and stimulating activities that inspire and motivate students, so that they make good progress
    • provide useful feedback to students so that they know how to improve.
  • Ensure that teachers of students who have high needs on vocational programmes understand students’ learning and support needs, so that they support students to develop their skills and knowledge well.
  • Managers and teachers should improve the development of students’ English and mathematics as a high priority by:
    • supporting vocational teachers to develop students’ understanding of English and mathematics within the context of their vocational programmes
    • improving the quality of teaching, learning and assessment in English and mathematics lessons, so that students make good progress and receive a good preparation for their examinations.

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.

National College for Advanced Transport & Infrastructure

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Take urgent action to ensure that leaders and staff implement the principles underpinning effective safeguarding practice across the organisation. Ensure that the single central register is complete and routine checks are undertaken to assure its accuracy.
  • Ensure that all trainers use the information they have about what apprentices and learners already know and can do to plan a programme of learning that will allow them to make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Rapidly improve the planning and coordination of apprentices’ on- and off-the-job training so that it supports the development of their technical and vocational skills, and their progress towards achievement. Prioritise the early delivery of mathematics training for level 4 engineering apprentices.
  • Provide all apprentices with detailed and precise guidance on the requirements and expectations associated with end-point assessment and details of their individual target grades.
  • Ensure that leaders and managers have the information they need to evaluate performance and take prompt and effective action to make improvements. The board should set challenging targets for leaders to improve the provision as a matter of urgency.
  • Ensure that all learners and apprentices are provided with detailed, ongoing information, advice and guidance that help them to raise their aspirations and plan their next steps in learning and careers.
  • Managers and teachers should make sure that all adult learners benefit from access to a broad curriculum that is linked to their career needs and interests; managers should monitor the suitability and quality of this systematically.

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

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Stretch and challenge A-level learners more, particularly those who come to the college with high prior attainment, so that more of them can achieve the high grades of which they are capable.
  • Provide all teachers with the necessary skills and confidence to help learners improve their understanding of English and mathematics and to promote equality and diversity better through the use of naturally occurring opportunities in lessons.
  • Improve the coordination of workplace learning that takes place both on employers’ premises and at the college. Involve employers more effectively in the process of reviewing and developing learners’ skills.
  • Provide relevant curriculum managers with the necessary training, sharing of good practice and skills to become more self-critical and to grow further into the role.

New College Durham

2009 Full Inspection Report
Areas for improvement

The college should address:

  • the use of value added to improve the quality of teaching
  • insufficiently rigorous arrangements to assure the quality of T2G subcontractors

Report Recommendations

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