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Inspection Report Recommendations

Bexhill College - Outstanding

2010 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Leaders are ambitious for all students, including those in receipt of high needs funding. They use their close understanding of skills needs to provide ambitious programmes of learning that give students the academic, technical and life skills they need to move on to positive destinations successfully. For example, A-level business teachers work with employers to develop students’ negotiation and time management skills and enhance their personal resilience. Students quickly acquire the skills and knowledge valued in the workplace and higher education and are prepared well for the future. Consequently, a high proportion of students move on to their intended next steps in learning or work successfully.

etc.

Bexley Learning & Enterprise College - Good

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Managers should ensure that all staff have access to the information about what learners know and can do at the start and during the course. Staff should use this information effectively to identify appropriate support for their learners.
  • Leaders should ensure that learners on all programmes receive detailed and timely advice and guidance on higher education and employment.

Bicton College - Outstanding

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Leaders and managers are very ambitious for their learners and apprentices. They provide a very broad range of vocational courses to meet the needs of learners and apprentices in the many different areas the college serves in Cornwall and Devon. Because of this, the college powerfully tackles the social, economic and geographical disadvantages of its learners and apprentices. For example, the college provides accessible learning opportunities to adult learners on Skills Bootcamps in construction to address the local skills shortage for the reopening of South Crofty Tin Mine. Learners with high needs study a supported internship course to build their employability skills at high-quality work placements with employers that are local to them.

etc.

Big Creative Education - Outstanding

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

Leaders have high ambitions for learners, many of whom have not performed well in national examinations, to gain the knowledge and skills they need to embark on careers in the creative arts. Leaders, managers and staff are steeped in the creative industries. They work closely with industry professionals to expertly plan and design curriculums that include technical and production skills which are needed in the sector. Learners leave BCA with up-to-date skills and knowledge that meet the needs of local and national employers.

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Bilborough College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that all teachers set students demanding work that builds depth of knowledge, skills, and understanding.
  • Ensure that all teachers use assessment effectively to check understanding, so future teaching helps students become more accomplished.
  • Review and further strengthen the guidance available for students who aspire to progress to employment at the end of their studies.

Birkenhead Sixth Form College - Outstanding

2016 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve achievement rates on the very small minority of underperforming courses so that all students make at least good progress and achieve their aspirational target grades.
  • Ensure that teachers provide opportunities to expand the knowledge of the small minority of students with an insufficiently wide understanding of diversity.

Birmingham Adult Education Service - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure teachers use information about what learners already know and can do at the start of their course to set meaningful targets so that learners understand what they need to do to improve.
  • Ensure that learners understand how to protect and keep themselves safe in their local areas.
  • Ensure that learners whose courses are designed to support them into employment receive careers education, information, advice and guidance so that they understand what they need to do to reach and succeed in their chosen careers.

Birmingham Metropolitan College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Feedback must routinely help learners and apprentices meet their potential.
  • All learners and apprentices must follow a curriculum that provides them with the opportunities to develop personal interests, learn to become resilient, confident, and active citizens and provides them with the information they need to stay safe.
  • Learners and apprentices must receive appropriate information that helps them to identify their next steps and which supports them.
  • Teachers must use the starting points of learners and apprentices to inform teaching.

Bishop Auckland College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Provide an effective curriculum for students aged 14 to 16 that motivates them to attend and enables them to achieve well.
  • Ensure that teachers consistently check on learning for all students and apprentices and encourage students to improve their work in response to feedback.

Bishop Burton College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that managers continue to improve the teaching skills of those teachers whose practice is not at the standard expected by leaders.
  • Ensure that all teachers provide precise and useful feedback on students’ and apprentices’ work to enable them to improve the quality of their work.
  • Improve attendance in all provision for young people.

Black Country & Marches Institute of Technology - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase the number of apprentices who remain on programme and achieve their apprenticeship on time.
  • Ensure that all learners and apprentices receive routinely planned CEIAG.
  • Ensure that all teachers receive sufficient vocational updating as part of their continual professional development programme.
  • Continue to improve attendance and punctuality, notably in English and mathematics, for learners on education programmes for young people.

Blackburn College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Implement effective, timely and sustainable quality improvement measures across all apprenticeships so that the proportion of apprentices who achieve their apprenticeships is consistently high.
  • Ensure that staff give students with high needs enough opportunities to develop their independent thinking skills so that students make at least the progress they are capable of on their course.
  • Improve students’ attendance and the proportion of students who achieve higher grades in GCSE mathematics.

Blackburn with Darwen Adult Learning Service - Good

2010 Full Inspection Report
What does the Neighbourhoods and Learning Service need to do to improve further?
  • Continue to improve the quality of teaching and learning by ensuring appropriate initial assessment and tutor’s good access to, and confident use of, ILT.
  • Effectively promote the system of referral for information, advice and guidance to tutors and learners in all community venues to provide them with accurate information about progression. Monitor the uptake of this support to establish the scale of need and its impact on progression.
  • Develop and implement an effective process to establish learners’ support needs before courses start so that these can be met from the first session.
  • Introduce effective arrangements for monitoring learner progression and destinations to inform planning and quality improvement. Implement guidelines on the safe use of the internet. Complete feedback to learners on actions arising from their feedback. Establish the quality of teaching by full-time compared to casual part-time tutors.
  • Promote consistently good attention to safety at all venues by ensuring security of access and maintenance of records of who is in the building.

Blackburne House - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that the curriculum for ESOL is suitably ambitious and builds carefully on what learners already know and can do.
  • Review learners’ progress more systematically so that learners know what they need to do to improve the quality of their work.
  • Develop quality assurance processes that focus in more detail on the quality of education that learners receive.

Blackpool & the Fylde College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Provide consistently high standards of feedback to young students and apprentices so they know precisely what they need to do to improve their work.
  • Increase the proportion of students on education programmes for young people who achieve their level 1 and level 2 qualifications.

Blackpool Sixth Form College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that teachers provide students with a consistently high standard of assessment and feedback so they know how to improve their work.
  • Increase the number of students who stay on their courses and make the progress of which they are capable.

Bolton College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that staff are supported effectively to manage their workloads.
  • Stabilise teaching teams where vacant posts and staff absence are impacting negatively on the quality of education that students and apprentices receive.
  • Increase the focus on the quality of teaching and learning in classroom and workshop sessions, particularly in education programmes for young people and GCSE English and mathematics.
  • Ensure that staff are trained to teach all aspects of the curriculum, particularly in higher-level and specialist topics.
  • Ensure that teachers take account of the EHC plan targets for students with high needs when planning their teaching.
  • Increase attendance, especially for 16- to 18-year-old students studying GCSE English and mathematics.

Bolton Sixth Form College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Swiftly improve teaching and assessment on the A-level science curriculums.
  • Increase the number of students who achieve high grades and make sustained progress from their starting points.

Borders College

2018 Full Inspection Report
Areas for development
  • The appointment of class representatives and communication of improvements following Faculty Council meetings is inconsistent, and some students in some areas have not engaged in the review process. Without the successful implementation of the Student Representative Committee (the new structure for learner engagement) planned for 2018/19, there is a risk that the learner voice may not be consistently heard or utilised to inform improvements.
  • The number of learners engaging with the Annual Learner Survey (47%) was significantly less than previous years. Inconsistency across areas with very low or no responses in some, may inhibit our ability to fully understand the range of views of college learners, on learning and teaching and other aspects, and therefore to target actions appropriately.
  • In a few areas of the College staff are not sufficiently involved in the self-evaluation process and planning for improvement. In these cases staff are insufficiently aware of the available data that would help them to analysis performance.
  • The availability and access to well-analysed data is limited by the current IT systems and software; although progress has been made, it has been slower than anticipated. Whilst a range of reporting tools and reports have been created and developed to allow the college to analyse performance, there is inconsistent clarity of purpose surrounding these, which may reduce user confidence in the robustness of the data and accuracy of the reports.

Boston College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that support plans for learners with high needs are used to plan effective and individualised teaching.
  • Ensure that teachers have the necessary skills and knowledge to plan and teach a demanding curriculum for learners with high needs.
  • Ensure planning and teaching on adult learning courses is of a consistently high standard.
  • Ensure governors have appropriate understanding and oversight of provision for learners with high needs, enabling them to challenge leaders appropriately and identify areas for improvement swiftly.

Bournemouth & Poole College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Identify and implement actions to increase the proportion of students achieving GCSE mathematics with the grades they need to progress to higher levels of education and training.
  • Increase participation in meaningful work experience for students on education programmes for young people and students with high needs.
  • Improve students’ and apprentices’ understanding of personal development topics relevant to their study and personal lives.

Bradford College - Good

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • As a matter of urgency, governors, leaders and managers should ensure that they address all the areas for improvement identified at the previous inspection. In particular, they should:
    • ensure that all learners on 16 to 19 study programmes have access to good-quality and relevant work experience
    • improve the progress that learners make so that all learners, including those who have high-needs funding, fulfil their potential.
  • Leaders and managers should quicken the pace of improvement so that achievement rates on 16 to 19 study programmes increase rapidly.
  • Teachers should ensure that they pay close attention to the needs of individual learners in the planning and delivery of teaching and in the assessment of learning, so that all learners, including those who have high-needs funding, make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Leaders and managers should assess the quality of teaching, learning and assessment more realistically and take action to address the key areas for improvement.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that attendance increases, especially in English and mathematics lessons.

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

Bridgwater & Taunton College - Outstanding

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

Leaders create a diverse and inspiring curriculum offer that is ambitious for all. Highly inclusive courses meet local and national skills needs exceptionally well and powerfully tackle social disadvantage. For example, staff work in partnership with British Gymnastics to plan and teach the level 2 community activator coach apprenticeship. Apprentices are supported financially to achieve recognised coaching qualifications, helping them to gain work as professional gymnastics coaches and further develop their careers. Leaders provide students with a wide range of course options to suit their existing knowledge and skills, including a comprehensive suite of level 1 and 2 courses. This includes a level 1 automotive maintenance diploma that teaches students the practical skills and professional behaviours they need to start work in a garage, and a level 2 professional cookery technical certificate that teaches students the skills they need to join a commercial kitchen. Online and distance learning courses make training more accessible for adults. They improve their knowledge in subjects such as understanding autism, and children and young peoples’ mental health.

etc.

Brighton Metropolitan College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve students’ attendance, particularly in GCSE English and mathematics.
  • Improve the proportion of students who make positive progress from their starting points in GCSE English and mathematics, and who achieve A-level qualifications.
  • Ensure young learners know how to keep themselves safe from the risk of radicalisation and extremism.

Report Recommendations

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