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Inspection Report Recommendations

Newcastle 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.

Newcastle Sixth Form 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.

Newham College of Further Education - Good

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 - Good

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 - Good

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 - 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 East Scotland College

2024 Annual Engagement Visit
The following areas for improvement were identified and discussed with the senior managers:
  • Rates of completion with partial success for learners on part-time programmes have increased.
  • Teaching staff do not always have sufficient time or opportunity to reflect on and engage with, the updating of their professional subject knowledge and skills.
  • The majority of class representatives have not received training to support them to carry out their role.

North East Surrey College of Technology - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that teachers in all areas use questioning and target setting appropriately so that students and apprentices know what they need to do to improve.
  • Leaders should ensure that students attend consistently well in all areas.
  • Leaders should ensure that full-time 14- to 16-year-old students benefit from a suitable curriculum for relationships, sex and health education.

North Hertfordshire College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that the teaching of English and mathematics across the college is of a high quality and prepares students effectively for their examinations.
  • Ensure that apprentices can access a broad range of high-quality enrichment activities to complement their studies.

North Kent College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Provide all apprentices with timely, developmental feedback that enables them to understand their strengths, how to improve and consequently helps them to make excellent progress.
  • Further support learners in receipt of high needs funding to take more ownership of their learning and consequently achieve greater independence in their wider lives.
  • Ensure all eligible learners take part in an external work placement to extend and consolidate their understanding of workplace practices.
  • Further develop the programme of cross college enrichment activities so that learners have better opportunities to explore their interests and talents.

North Lincolnshire Adult Education & Community Learning - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase the number of learners accessing the new curriculum at the network of community hubs in all parts of the county, including those studying English.
  • Ensure that the proportion of hard-to-reach parents accessing family learning increases once the pandemic is officially over.
  • Ensure that all learners receive consistently helpful and motivational information, advice and guidance to encourage them to enrol on courses.

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.

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.

North Warwickshire & South Leicestershire College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Use the starting points of all students and apprentices when planning learning and setting targets to support them to make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Provide all students and apprentices with feedback that helps them improve their work.
  • Monitor the quality of teaching that students, adult learners and apprentices receive across all courses so that leaders can intervene quickly where necessary.
  • Increase the proportion of students aged 16 to 19 studying GCSE English and mathematics who achieve grade 4 or higher.

North West Regional College

2012 Full Inspection Report
What does the North West Regional College need to do to improve further?

In further education, further work is needed to improve the quality of the College’s provision in essential skills, particularly leadership and management, the quality of teaching and learning in a significant minority of lessons, and in the outcomes in the essential skill of ICT.

In work-based learning, there is a need to improve the quality of the provision, particularly:

  • to provide more effective leadership and management of the work-based learning provision;
  • improve the quality of mechanical and manufacturing engineering which is inadequate;
  • expand the range of the provision, and in particular the numbers of learners registered on the ApprenticeshipsNI programme; and
  • to improve outcomes and achievements and progression rates to further education and training on the Programme-led Apprenticeship strand of Training for Success programme.

Northampton College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Consistently take account of what students and apprentices already know and can do when planning the curriculum, to ensure that tasks and activities are suitably challenging.
  • Provide high needs students on supported learning programmes with enough opportunities to practise their independent living skills and participate in work experience.
  • Ensure that all quality assurance processes result in accurate judgements about the quality of education.
  • Improve the professional development process for staff so that those staff who are doing well receive focused support to make them even better.

Northbrook 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.

Northern College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the arrangements for evaluating how effectively the community learning programme enables students to progress by rapidly implementing plans to gather and make effective use of information about the impact of this programme.
  • Fully implement the new arrangements for recording the information, advice and guidance that students receive, so that leaders can be assured that all students are benefiting from the support that they need to progress towards achieving their goals and aspirations.
  • Ensure that all students on mathematics courses develop their skills and make good progress.
  • Maintain the strong focus on current and planned actions to secure the college’s future viability.

Northern Regional College

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the Northern Regional College need to do to improve further?

There is a need to improve the quality of the provision, in particular the College should work to:

  1. Establish more robust strategic quality improvement planning processes to inform more effectively curriculum planning across the College. The curriculum for the Training for Success provision in work-based learning needs to be urgently reviewed, in particular to address the significant areas for improvement in the current curriculum offer for the majority of the Programme-Led Apprentices.
  2. Address the inadequate leadership and management and overall standards and achievements in work-based learning, particularly the Training for Success provision, and also take action to improve the satisfactory or inadequate overall quality of the provision for brickwork, electrical installation, plumbing and wood occupations.
  3. Improve the quality of the provision for the essential skills across the College, with a particular focus on the quality of teaching and learning, and standards and outcomes in this area.
  4. Implement an effective quality improvement planning process to address learners’ underachievement, which is underpinned by accurate and reliable data and informed by a more effective process of self-evaluation. The College needs to ensure that managers are clear about the fundamental importance of outcomes for learners in their areas of responsibility, and that they are implementing effective strategies to tackle shortcomings in performance.
  5. Build on the particularly good practice which exists in engineering, and a few other professional and technical areas, in order to broaden further the extent and impact of economic engagement across the College.

Northern School of Art - Outstanding

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

Leaders and managers provide an exceptionally current and relevant curriculum that enables learners to develop specialist knowledge and skills in creative arts. They provide learners with access to highly specialised equipment and resources that enhance their studies. The small adult learning provision offered, which is predominantly an access to higher education (art and design) course, enables learners to focus on developing the skills and knowledge required for higher education and equips them with the skills to work professionally in their chosen field. All learners are well prepared for their next steps into further education, higher education or careers in the creative arts industries. Leaders and managers ensure that learners achieve well. Leaders and managers have continued to improve the achievement rate of learners since the last inspection.

etc.

Northumberland College - Outstanding

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

Leaders and governors have a very clear vision to provide high-quality training and education in the north east region. Senior leaders have dedicated time and effort to transform the college group. They have been on a relentless journey to improve all aspects of students’ and apprentices’ experience across all the college campuses. Through inspirational leadership, the culture of the organisation has become one of high aspiration and continuous improvement. Staff strive to achieve their best and are very proud to work for the organisation.

etc.

Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College - Outstanding

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

Leaders and managers have developed a broad and coherent curriculum. This includes courses leading to academic, applied general and technical qualifications, as well as the very successful introduction of T levels. Students combine different types of qualifications to meet their specific needs and interests, and this provides them with the best possible chance of achieving their career ambitions. For those students not ready for level 3 study, the college has developed a carefully thought-out level 2 pathway, which enables students to progress successfully to the next level.

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Nottingham College - Requires Improvement

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that learners with high needs who study vocational courses benefit from appropriate, bespoke support that meets their needs well.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all young learners and apprentices achieve their courses well, particularly those who study at level 2.

Oaklands College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Attendance and achievement of learners in English and mathematics at all levels.
  • Involve employers and stakeholders in planning, teaching and assessing programmes, so that learning is linked appropriately to the skills needs of those stakeholders.

Oldham College - Requires Improvement

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Review the curriculums for students on education programmes for young people to ensure that they are ambitious and challenging.
  • Improve teachers’ use of assessment strategies on education programmes for young people to rectify misconceptions or gaps in learning so that students make at least the progress of which they are capable.
  • Improve teachers’ feedback following assessments so that students know what they need to do to improve their work and achieve merit and distinction grades where available.
  • Improve teachers use of support strategies for students with high needs in vocational areas.

Report Recommendations

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