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Inspection Report Recommendations

North East Scotland College

2019 Full Inspection Report
Areas for development

However:

Although progress has been made to improve access and support arrangements for all students including those traditionally experiencing barriers to learning, the College should:

  • Ensure that its admissions approaches continue to improve access to learning for specific ‘at-risk’ groups and that the gaps, currently SIMD10 (12% for AY2016-17); BME (2.2% for AY2016-17) and care experienced (1.6% for AY2016-17), between the College’s target enrolments and sector average decrease.
  • Ensure that success outcomes for full-time FE disabled (61.5% for AY2016-17); care experienced (34% for AY2016-17) and full-time HE SIMD10 (66.3% for AY2016-17) learners improve in line with the College’s Outcome Agreement targets and align more closely with sector averages.
  • Review and revise its Access and Inclusion Strategy in order to continue the improvement of outcomes and experiences for specific learners groups e.g. care experienced and disabled learners.

North East Surrey College of Technology

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

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that the quality of English and mathematics provision continues to improve in order that all learners attend their courses and improve their English and mathematical skills effectively.
  • Ensure that all staff effectively promote learners’, trainees’ and apprentices’ understanding of radicalisation and threats from extremist groups.
  • Continue the focus on ensuring that a higher proportion of apprentices complete their programmes within their expected timescales.

North Kent College

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Increase the proportion of students who successfully complete qualifications in English and mathematics by improving the use of initial assessment to place students on the correct level of study. Ensure that planning for individual students provides a clear pathway to gaining GCSEs at grades A* to C in mathematics and English, where this is a realistic goal.
  • Improve the quality of teaching and learning in functional skills lessons and ensure that vocational teachers have the necessary skills to include English and mathematics in their lessons and do so systematically.
  • Increase the extent to which staff monitor the progress of apprentices and ensure that interventions for individual apprentices are timely, robust and lead to sustained improvements in performance.
  • Increase the proportion of teaching and learning that is good and outstanding by building the capacity of college observers to provide precise guidance to individual teachers on their areas for improvement.

North Lincolnshire Adult Education & Community Learning

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

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that feedback is consistently effective for all learners and apprentices to help them improve.
  • Ensure high levels of attendance across all programmes.
  • Ensure that all tutors of adult learning programmes reinforce new learning so that adult learners retain information over time.
  • Ensure that all adults understand how to achieve their long-term career goals.

North Nottinghamshire College

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

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that all learners know the progress they are making and are given clear guidance by teachers on what they need to do to improve.
  • Ensure that all learners with high needs and SEND have access to purposeful and good-quality work experience through a supported internship programme.
  • Ensure that teachers and learning support staff work closely together to plan effective and beneficial in-class support that meets identified learner needs.
  • Improve the proportion of learners aged 16 to 19 studying GCSE English and mathematics who achieve grade 4 or higher.
  • Leaders and managers should quicken the pace of improvement so that variations in learners’ and apprentices’ achievement across different subject areas reduce and that learners’ and apprentices’ achievements are all consistently high.

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

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Train teachers to design and implement teaching and learning activities, particularly in theory lessons, that inspire and motivate students.
  • Ensure that teachers use the information they have about students’ prior achievements and progress to teach lessons that enable students to fulfil their potential and excel.
  • Help teachers understand fully the potential dangers, relevant to the local area and the subject they teach, that students and apprentices face from those who hold extremist views. Ensure that they use this information to develop students’ and apprentices’ understanding, so that they can keep themselves safe.
  • Increase the proportion of apprentices who achieve their qualification within the planned timescale by:
    • making sure that assessors plan learning programmes for apprentices that consider their prior knowledge and potential
    • planning sufficiently frequent assessor visits so that apprentices receive training, assessment, feedback and targets to help them make rapid progress, and ensure that employers know what it is that apprentices need to improve so that they can support them at work
    • checking that managers and assessors monitor apprentices’ progress frequently and that they intervene rapidly when apprentices’ progress slows
    • helping apprentices to improve their written English by correcting spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors and giving apprentices strategies to help them improve these skills.

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

2009 Full Inspection Report
Areas for improvement

The college should address:

  • lower retention on a small minority of courses
  • deficiencies in accommodation at the Burlam Road site.

Northumberland College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that students in all curriculum areas have high attendance at college.
  • Ensure that all tutors check the understanding of students before moving on to the next topic.
  • Ensure that students with high needs have the opportunity to progress to employment where appropriate.
  • Ensure that all students receive information on apprenticeships, including higher apprenticeships, when planning their next steps.

Nottingham College

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

2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders must develop robust and accurate processes to identify weaknesses in their apprenticeship provision. They must then take decisive action to ensure that employers and apprentices benefit from high-quality training which is relevant to their job roles.
  • Leaders must ensure that apprentices and adults benefit from ongoing high-quality careers advice and guidance, so that they understand and know how to achieve the job roles and careers they seek upon completion of their courses.
  • Leaders must ensure that learners on the supported internship course benefit from meaningful work experience placements that reflect their needs and interests. Learners must be enabled to develop the skills they require to gain sustainable jobs that interest them.
  • Leaders must ensure that learners who require occupational and physiotherapy services have access to them in a timely way and become independent learners.
  • Leaders must ensure that apprentices understand how the radical views and extremist behaviour of others may impact on their personal and working lives. Apprentices need to understand that the work they do may result in them being at risk from terrorist activity.

Oldham College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve attendance rates across all courses, particularly in English and mathematics lessons for 16- to 18-year-old learners and adults, so that they are aligned to college targets. Ensure that all learners attend punctually.
  • Improve the rigour of improvement strategies, so that leaders, managers and governors bring about a rapid improvement in the small number of subject areas that are still performing below expected standards.
  • Improve further the quality of teaching, learning and assessment, by ensuring that the most able learners achieve the high grades of which they are capable.
  • Improve the qualification outcomes for learners on GCSE English and mathematics courses to ensure that learners improve their grades and achieve the high grades that they will need for the next stages in their learning, training or employment.

Oldham Sixth Form College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should raise expectations so that all students gain the detailed knowledge they require for their next steps and are challenged to achieve their highest potential.
  • Leaders should ensure that all teachers focus on ensuring that students have sufficient knowledge in advance of assessments so that more students pass their assessments on their first attempt.
  • Leaders should ensure that staff monitor the progress of students with high needs towards their wider education and health care plan outcomes so that students are fully equipped with all of the knowledge and behaviours required for independence.

On Course South West

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Check that senior leaders at Discovery College monitor all aspects of the study programmes, so that all young learners are taught the personal development programme and teachers use assessments to help these learners improve the standard of their work.
  • Ensure that local employers’ views and needs are represented on the adult education board.
  • In adult learning programmes, teach the personal skills that learners need on courses that aim to help learners progress to higher level courses at other institutions. Also, assess the impact that the well-being courses have on learners’ well-being.
  • Provide vocational teachers with the opportunity to update their vocational competence regularly.

Paston College

2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Teachers must ensure that students develop good English skills. Teachers need to ensure that students produce written work of a high quality.
  • Leaders need to ensure that teachers place sufficient emphasis on ESOL students developing good spoken English so they can express their views clearly and assimilate into their community effectively.
  • Leaders need to ensure that apprentices receive good, impartial careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG) to enable them to progress to their next steps and understand the breadth of career opportunities open to them.

Peter Symonds College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Leaders and managers have designed and developed a challenging curriculum that enables students to achieve and often exceed expectations. They evaluate the curriculum regularly to ensure that it increases students’ chances of progressing to the best universities or gaining employment. For example, they introduced new vocational courses in law, medical science and criminology to the curriculum to enable students to enter careers in allied professions.

Peterborough College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders and managers need to rapidly improve the proportion of learners who pass their qualifications by ensuring that:
    • significantly more learners achieve the high-grade passes that their prior attainment suggests they are capable of, rather than just passing their qualifications
    • teachers and managers closely monitor the progress of learners and intervene appropriately when learners fail to meet their deadlines
    • managers support teachers to improve their teaching practice quickly so that more learners stay at college and enjoy their learning
    • learners of all ages attend their classes.
  • Improve the monitoring of learners’ next steps to better understand the impact courses have on the lives and future careers of learners.
  • Provide good-quality careers advice for learners so that they can make informed and timely choices about their next steps.
  • Ensure that learners with high needs develop their independent living skills to enable them to participate fully in college life and their community.

Petroc College of Further & Higher Education

2012 Full Inspection Report
What does PETROC need to do to improve further?
  • Improve success rates on some intermediate-level courses and apprenticeship programmes by spreading the good practice to improve retention and progress observed in other areas of the college.
  • Improve the quality of teaching and learning by ensuring that teachers promote equality and diversity issues more consistently in lessons.
  • Ensure all students attain the highest possible standards through the use of more challenging targets, both in the classroom and in individual progress reviews, and by involving employers more closely in work-based learners’ progress reviews.

Plumpton College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Accelerate plans to introduce independent careers guidance. Ensure that all learners have access to impartial information, advice and guidance at all stages of their course so that they can plan their next steps better informed about all options.
  • Make theory lessons in a small minority of areas more interesting and informative so learners gain new knowledge and understanding more rapidly and make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Improve the management of learners with high needs by:
    • ensuring that teachers use the good information available on learners to provide learning which will help each learner make better progress
    • helping learners improve their work further to reach their full potential
    • monitoring the progress of learners against their planned outcomes.

Preston College

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that learners rapidly improve their skills in English and mathematics and significantly increase the number of learners who achieve high grades in these subjects.
  • Ensure that teachers and support staff plan and track the incremental steps that learners with high needs take towards attaining their EHCP outcomes. Teachers and support staff should help learners to recognise and celebrate the steps they take towards their longer-term goals.
  • Improve learners’ attendance, particularly on level 1 courses and in GCSE English and mathematics.

Report Recommendations

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