College of Richard Collyer - Outstanding

2025 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Leaders have put in place consistently high-quality learning programmes that are very closely aligned with the needs of their students and the communities they serve. Staff plan and teach their courses to make sure that learning builds on what students know and can do. They ensure that students have a very secure understanding of the fundamental aspects of a subject before introducing more challenging topics. A-level psychology students learn how to debate effectively before they apply this knowledge when debating topics. For instance, adult learners who speak English as an additional language initially learn essential everyday language and skills, such as how to greet people and the names of different foods, before they use this knowledge to order food in a restaurant.

etc.

College of West Anglia - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Increase the proportion of learners and apprentices who complete their courses and achieve their qualifications.
• Provide learners with useful feedback so that they know how to improve their work.
• Train teachers to use assessment effectively to check what learners know and can do.

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.

Worthing 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.

Haywards Heath 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.

Brinsbury 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.

Crawley 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.

Chichester 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.

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.

Coventry College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Ensure all learners are provided with appropriate feedback so they continue to improve and gain new knowledge, skills and behaviours.
• Improve achievement in the small number of courses where this is not yet high enough.
• Improve resources in the kitchen learning environment for learners on life skills courses.
• Promote enrichment activity and encourage participation for more learners.

Duchy 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.

Falmouth Marine School - 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.

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.

Cornwall 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.

Ashton Sixth Form College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Increase the proportion of students and adult learners who remain on their courses and achieve their qualifications, particularly at the highest grades.
• Improve the quality of education in the few areas that are underperforming.
• Improve the monitoring of students’ and adult learners’ progress and achievement, taking swift action to prevent underperformance.

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.

City of Westminster College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Improve the attendance and punctuality of learners and apprentices.
• Increase the number of young learners that achieve their planned qualifications.
• Train tutors and learning support assistants across vocational and academic programmes so they have the knowledge and skills they need to teach and support learners who have SEND.

College of North West London - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Improve the attendance and punctuality of learners and apprentices.
• Increase the number of young learners that achieve their planned qualifications.
• Train tutors and learning support assistants across vocational and academic programmes so they have the knowledge and skills they need to teach and support learners who have SEND.

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.

Carmel College - Outstanding

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Leaders design an inclusive, broad and highly ambitious curriculum that affords students, including those with high needs, the opportunity to maximise their potential and to support their progression to aspirational destinations. They make sure that the curriculum offer widens participation and promotes social mobility for students without compromising on their high expectations.

etc.

Bedford College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Ensure that all learners receive useful careers information and guidance to understand how to achieve their long-term career goals.
• Ensure that learners who need to gain a GCSE mathematics qualification are swiftly able to join courses.
• Ensure that all staff receive sufficient training on effective assessment methods so that they can check accurately how well learners and apprentices retain new learning and transfer this to their long-term memory.
• Improve the attendance of learners so that they attend their courses well.

Bedford Sixth Form College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Ensure that all learners receive useful careers information and guidance to understand how to achieve their long-term career goals.
• Ensure that learners who need to gain a GCSE mathematics qualification are swiftly able to join courses.
• Ensure that all staff receive sufficient training on effective assessment methods so that they can check accurately how well learners and apprentices retain new learning and transfer this to their long-term memory.
• Improve the attendance of learners so that they attend their courses well.

Barnet & Southgate College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Increase the proportion of learners, particularly young learners, who achieve their qualifications in engineering, ESOL, English and mathematics.
• Provide meaningful work experience opportunities for learners in all subjects.
• Check learners’ knowledge and understanding consistently well across all subjects.
• Continue to raise attendance in all subjects, particularly in ESOL, English and mathematics.

Buckinghamshire College Group - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Identify what young learners know and can do when they start their course, and address gaps in their knowledge and skills as they learn in a small minority of subjects.
• Set targets for apprentices that specifically identify the knowledge, skills and behaviours they need to develop.
• Provide ongoing training for learners and apprentices so they know how to keep themselves safe from the risks of radicalisation and extremism.

Southwark 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.

West Lancashire 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.