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Inspection Report Recommendations

Priestley College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Teachers should plan learning activities that challenge students to extend their knowledge, skills and understanding so that all students achieve the grade of which they are capable.
  • Improve attendance rates, particularly on level 2 study programmes.
  • Ensure that all governors have sufficient understanding of further education to hold senior managers fully to account.

Prior Pursglove College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Leaders and managers should use data more effectively to analyse the progress, performance and achievement of all students so that they can quickly identify any areas of concern and take rapid action to bring about improvements.
  • Leaders should take steps to close the gaps in the achievements of different groups of students who do not follow study programmes at level 3. In particular, they should ensure that:
    • students on study programmes at levels 1 and 2 and adults who have a recognised learning difficulty and/or disability receive the support that they need so that they achieve as well as their peers
    • the proportion of male students who achieve improves.
  • Governors and leaders should take effective action to resolve the remaining differences in the quality of provision and the outcomes for students at the two campuses by ensuring that good practice is shared effectively and areas of underperformance are dealt with swiftly. In particular, they should ensure that the proportion of students who remain on their courses at the Stockton campus continues to improve.

Queen Alexandra College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Governors must ensure that senior leaders have accurately identified the weaknesses for all curriculum pathways, and that their actions result in swift improvements.
  • Senior leaders must review the curriculum to ensure that it is aspirational for all students. They should ensure that they accurately identify pathways for students which will enable them to gain the skills they need to leave college when they are ready.
  • Senior leaders must ensure that they quickly improve the quality of teaching by:
    • ensuring that all teachers plan their teaching to reflect students’ starting points and their long-term goals as outlined in their education, health, and care plans
    • ensuring that all teachers sequence their teaching to develop students’ skills and knowledge relevant to their learning and support needs
    • ensuring that teachers provide helpful feedback to students on their practical and written work to ensure they achieve to the level of which they are capable.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all students receive impartial careers education, information, advice and guidance, and the training and support they need in preparation for adulthood.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that students are taught to understand the risks associated with relationships and harmful sexual behaviours. They should develop a curriculum which teaches students how to develop positive and healthy relationships, including sexual relationships.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all students benefit from well-planned and relevant work experience.

Queen Mary's College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should improve the curriculum for personal development to better prepare students for life in modern Britain and the world of work.
  • Leaders should improve the quality of careers advice so that students are fully informed of all options open to them for their next steps and those students who wish to take an alternative route are as well prepared and supported as their peers moving on to university.
  • Curriculum leaders, supported by their managers, should improve the quality of teaching in the few areas where performance is low so that all students, including those with high needs, make the progress that they are capable of.
  • Senior managers should ensure that governors understand fully the weaknesses of the college and hold leaders to account so that they improve these weaknesses rapidly.

Realise Futures

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Raise learner achievement and success rates by further improving teaching, learning and assessment through better planning of learning and strengthening of individual target setting to challenge learners.
  • Further develop the use of management information and data, refine their presentation and ensure the timely supply of information from subcontractors, to enable better decision-making.
  • Strengthen the use of information learning technology (ILT) by building on existing effective classroom practice and improving access to it in community settings.

Reaseheath College

2010 Full Inspection Report
What does Reaseheath College need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure learners achieve their full potential by increasing the proportion of high grades, reducing late transfers to less demanding courses, increasing the challenge in lessons and assignment work for more-able learners, providing more detailed feedback to learners on what they need to do to improve and improving the clarity of targets and actions set for learners.
  • Improve teaching and learning by increasing the rigour of the observation of teaching, ensuring action plans produced following observations include clear targets and actions on what teachers need to do to improve and monitoring the implementation of these action plans.
  • Ensure the range of the additionality and enrichment offer meets the needs of all learners, enrolments on additional qualifications are recorded in a timely way and outcomes are monitored.
  • More accurately judge learners’ outcomes and the quality of provision by ensuring success rates are recorded accurately.
  • Improve the measures to judge the impact of activities which aim to improve learners’ health and well-being and their contribution to the community, for example, by recording learner involvement, setting targets and monitoring progress.

Redcar & Cleveland College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that all students with high needs are enrolled on the right programmes to meet their needs.

Reigate College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that staff review students’ education, health care plans annually and include parents and guardians in this process. Leaders and managers should set these students ambitious and specific targets to ensure they make rapid progress in their learning.
  • Leaders, managers and teachers should ensure that students know how to improve their work and make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all students benefit from a period of work experience or work-related experience to help prepare them for the world of work and reinforce what they learn at college.

Richard Taunton Sixth Form College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve teaching and learning so that those teachers who do not yet make productive use of lesson time to teach subject knowledge and skills receive appropriate training and support to do so.
  • Ensure that all students who do not plan to go university receive timely and relevant advice and guidance about the opportunities available to them when they leave college.
  • Implement the work experience strategy so that all relevant students benefit from suitable work experience and work-related learning related to the subjects they study and to their career aims.

Richmond & Hillcroft Adult & Community College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should develop further their staff development programmes so that all tutors develop their pedagogical expertise to the same high level.
  • Tutors should ensure that learners, in particular those who will work with people who may be vulnerable, are fully aware of how to keep themselves and others safe from the dangers of extremism and radicalisation.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that they have more precise information about what learners do once they complete their course and use this to consider future curriculum development.

Richmond upon Thames College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that learners and apprentices are aware of the enrichment opportunities available at the college to improve participation in these activities.
  • Leaders should ensure that teachers of mainstream subjects make consistent use of EHC plan outcomes to plan a bespoke curriculum for learners with high needs that enables learners to develop their independence and the skills they need for work and adult life.
  • In a minority of apprenticeship programmes, teachers should improve their sequencing of the curriculum to ensure apprentices develop basic knowledge before learning more-complex topics.

Riseholme College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Teachers and assessors should plan additional activities and offer extra qualifications to their most able learners on study programmes to enable them to achieve high grades; and extend apprentices’ skills beyond the expectations for competence set out in the apprenticeship qualification frameworks.
  • Managers should provide training and support to ensure that teachers and assessors are competent and confident enough to teach mathematics from entry level up to GCSE. They should also ensure that there are enough teaching staff in place to cover all taught classes, so that learners benefit from the consistency and continuity that they need to develop their skills in mathematics.
  • Managers and teachers should strengthen and widen the range of activities that they use to make learners fully aware of the risks posed by radicalisation and extremism, and increase learners’ level of understanding of these risks while they are at college.
  • Managers need to devise a range of measures in the college’s quality improvement plan so they can assess when actions have been successful.

Riverside College

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

Leaders have exceptional links with local employers and regional business groups, including the local enterprise partnership and regional mayoral authorities. They collaborate with them to create a challenging curriculum designed to help learners and apprentices achieve their ambitious career goals.

Rotherham 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.

Royal National College for the Blind

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that all health and safety risk-assessment documentation is up to date, by ensuring that actions taken to control risks are clearly and accurately recorded, are timebound and are reviewed regularly to ensure that risks have been effectively tackled.
  • In order to improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment continuously, make sure that:
    • teachers provide all students with learning targets that are specifically linked to the development of their written communication and numerical skills, so that, as well as achieving their qualifications, they develop further the skills they need to live independently
    • teachers provide all students with detailed written feedback (or equivalent depending on individual need) so that they know what to do to improve their writing skills and the quality of their work
    • managers provide feedback to teachers on the quality of their teaching that focuses explicitly on the progress, skills development and standard of work achieved by students in lessons and over time
    • managers make use of the findings from the observation of lessons when reviewing the quality and outcomes of teachers’ work, and identify how teachers can improve the quality of their teaching.

Runshaw College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should review their approach to independent learning to ensure that teachers support all students to understand new information and concepts accurately. They should ensure that teachers identify and rectify quickly any misconceptions that students have developed through studying on their own.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all apprentices receive sufficient teaching and training to help them to fully prepare for external assessments and to develop the advanced skills they need to achieve the high grades they are capable of.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all teachers check students’ work, including how well they understand what they have learned, in order to provide helpful feedback.
  • Leaders and managers should further develop processes for monitoring apprentices’ progress to ensure that apprentices receive any additional support that they need swiftly.

Ruskin College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers must swiftly develop a stronger oversight of safeguarding. They must ensure that all staff are appropriately trained to follow college policies and procedures regarding how to keep learners safe.
  • Leaders and managers must follow their own safer recruitment procedures to ensure that staff awaiting DBS checks do not work with potentially vulnerable learners without risk assessment.
  • Leaders should improve their assessment of learners’ starting points to ensure they are placed on English language courses which provide them with the best opportunities to succeed.
  • Leaders should improve the advice and guidance for learners on community learning courses, so they know how to progress onto higher levels of education.

Saint Brendan's Sixth Form College

2012 Full Inspection Report
What does the college need to do to improve further?
  • Improve the proportion of students who achieve high grades at A level through a range of teaching strategies. These should include: using more appropriate extension activities to meet the needs of able students; making more effective use of assessment to promote high achievement and sharing the insights of teachers in subjects where students do achieve a high proportion of grades A*to B.
  • Review the use of information and learning technology (ILT) in lessons. Use existing expertise to promote more innovative and imaginative use of new technology throughout the college, where appropriate.
  • Review the curriculum offered to students. Specifically, evaluate the number of subjects and examinations taken by most second-year students in order to ensure that this is not having a negative effect on students’ achievement of high grades at A level.
  • Improve data management. Ensure that the college complies fully with all the funding agency rules for the accurate return of student data so that all stakeholders are absolutely clear about the performance of the college.
  • Strengthen self-assessment and quality assurance procedures through ensuring that an agreed set of relevant data is used throughout the college to judge the effectiveness of provision. Use the analysis of these data to make clear judgements and formulate action plans, with precise and carefully monitored targets, designed to improve provision further.

Saint Charles Catholic Sixth Form College

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and staff should continue their focus on improving learners’ attendance and punctuality across programmes.
  • Leaders should improve the quality of education in vocational programmes so that more learners remain on programme and achieve their qualifications.
  • Leaders should ensure that learners, particularly those on level 2 programmes, have work placement opportunities or other work-related learning in a timely manner.

Saint David's Catholic Sixth Form College

2019 Full Inspection Report
Recommendations
  1. Establish effective arrangements for obtaining information about new learners’ additional learning needs from key partners
  2. Ensure that all relevant learners have appropriate progression pathways to help them improve on their prior GCSE grades in English and mathematics
  3. Help all learners to develop their understanding of the Welsh language and the culture of Wales
  4. Make sure that learner punctuality issues are monitored and addressed effectively

Saint Francis Xavier Sixth Form College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Continue to increase the proportion of students at level 3 who achieve or exceed the grades expected of them relative to their prior attainment by:
    • raising further the skills of all teachers to enable them to plan and teach lessons that consistently and fully meet the needs of individual students
    • making sure that all teachers provide learning at a level of challenge to help the most able students to make rapid progress.
  • Leaders should improve the overall achievement rates of students on A-level courses, by ensuring that the number of students who remain on their course and take their examinations in this academic year remains high.

Saint Helens College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Governors should establish a stable leadership team that creates an aspirational culture and ambitious curriculum where students and apprentices thrive and achieve.
  • Design programmes for students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities well so that they are prepared effectively for adulthood.
  • Ensure that teachers plan a curriculum that challenges students to achieve high grades in their qualifications.
  • Ensure that the curriculum for apprentices, particularly those on engineering and construction frameworks, develops their knowledge, skills and behaviours quickly.
  • Improve careers information, advice and guidance so that these are clear, accurate and meaningful so that students and apprentices understand the range of options available to them to meet their aspirations.
  • Ensure that students attend their courses regularly.

Report Recommendations

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