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Inspection Report Recommendations

Oldham Sixth Form College - Good

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 - Good

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 - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Make sure that teachers provide learners and apprentices with high-quality feedback so they can improve their work.
  • Make sure that apprentices have regular and frequent reviews so that employers and staff can plan their training effectively and apprentices can complete their training in the time expected.
  • Make sure that learners can discuss personal development themes in their tutorials.

Peter Symonds College - Outstanding

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

Since the previous inspection, leaders have continued to establish a high-performing culture that drives exceptional outcomes for all students and adult learners. Leaders oversee expertly designed training and effective support systems. This ensures that students are exceptionally well-prepared to complete their qualifications, with a very high proportion achieving the highest grades and progressing on to their desired next steps, including university placements, apprenticeships and employment. Teachers and support staff foster a learning environment where all students, including those with SEND and high needs, thrive academically and make substantial progress from their starting points. Adult learners also excel by building on their academic skills, such as research and referencing. A high proportion earn valuable qualifications that advance their career progression.

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Peterborough College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that staff accurately assess the starting points of apprentices. Staff must use this information to plan appropriate courses so that apprentices remain in learning, make good progress and achieve their course in a timely manner.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that staff work effectively with employers to plan and review the on- and off-the-job training so that apprentices have good opportunities to put their learning into practice in the workplace.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that staff track and monitor the progress that apprentices make on their courses. Staff must assess and return apprentices’ work promptly. Staff must provide frequent and useful developmental feedback on the quality of apprentices’ work, enabling apprentices to understand what they do effectively and what more they can do to improve their work further.

Petroc College of Further & Higher Education - Requires Improvement

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase the proportion of learners, including those with high needs, who stay until the end of the course and achieve their qualifications.
  • Improve the quality of teaching, particularly in English and mathematics.
  • Ensure that learners are on an appropriate and ambitious course.
  • Ensure that younger learners receive personal development so that they have an in-depth knowledge of subjects such as healthy eating, fundamental British values and how to protect themselves from extremist views.
  • Ensure that younger learners and high-needs learners on courses specifically designed for them get the work experience, careers information and guidance they need to make informed choices.

Plumpton College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Make sure that a higher proportion of young students attend lessons.
  • Improve the quality of feedback on young students’ work.

Preston College - Good

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.

Priestley College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Review the curriculum and the use of starting points for students on adult programmes.
  • Improve the feedback in health and social care and functional skills mathematics so that students know what they need to do to improve their work and achieve their qualification.
  • Improve the consistency of assessment to ensure that all students rectify misconceptions or gaps in learning so that they build on their previous learning.

Prior Pursglove College - Good

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 - Requires Improvement

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 - Good

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 - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase the proportion of learners in health and social care and digital skills courses that remain in learning and achieve their qualifications.
  • Ensure that learners have access to high-quality careers advice and guidance so that learners interested in a career understand how to reach their ultimate career aim.
  • Ensure that tutors receive training to improve their teaching skills.

Reaseheath College - Requires Improvement

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does Reaseheath College need to do to improve?
  • Improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment, particularly in theory lessons, and ensure students benefit from suitably ambitious curriculums.
  • Increase the number of students who stay to the end of the course and achieve their qualifications.
  • Improve the quality and consistency of learning support for students with SEND and high needs.
  • Make sure all apprentices are aware of the requirements of their final assessment, how to prepare for it and when it will take place.
  • Ensure students adhere to the college policies and procedures, including health and safety, and the expectations around their conduct in lessons.
  • Improve quality assurance processes so that they enable leaders to accurately evaluate the quality of education and intervene swiftly to bring about improvements.

Redcar & Cleveland College - Outstanding

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

Leaders have a very clear vision to provide high-quality training and education across the Tees Valley. They have successfully created a highly inclusive, supportive and welcoming culture in the group. Since the previous inspection, they have continued to make improvements, such as developing high-quality learning environments for learners and apprentices. Leaders worked with a locally based global company to ensure that the science laboratories in which they invested were of industry standard.

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Reigate College - Good

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 - Good

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 - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Make sure that teachers set learners targets that make it clear what they need to do to improve their work, and ensure that these targets are reviewed frequently.
  • Make sure that, in the supported learning area, teachers accurately assess learners’ starting points so that they are able to identify what learners already know and set them relevant targets.
  • Offer a broader range of extra-curricular activities and make sure that learners are informed about them.

Richmond upon Thames College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Train teachers to use assessment effectively to check learners’ and apprentices’ understanding and adapt their teaching appropriately.
  • Improve outcomes for learners on business, information technology and access to higher education courses at the Richmond campus.
  • Set targets for learners with high needs that link clearly to their EHC plans.  Increase the proportion of learners with high needs who achieve qualifications in English and mathematics.

Riseholme 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.

Riverside College - Outstanding

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

Senior leaders and managers have a very clear rationale for their aspirational curriculums. Leaders carefully consider the courses they provide for students, apprentices and those who have high needs. They have a strong sense of community and are passionate to provide life-changing opportunities for young people and adults, many from disadvantaged backgrounds, to achieve their personal and career goals. They work collaboratively with their subcontractors to provide training for students, including for those that are the furthest from employment and education, to prepare them for work, further learning, apprenticeships and their next steps.

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Rotherham 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.

Royal National College for the Blind - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that teachers use students’ starting points to plan teaching and support to meet the needs of individual students, particularly on level 3 courses.
  • Ensure that students’ small steps of learning are shared among all staff to enable students to demonstrate and practise their newly acquired skills to make progress towards their education, health and care plan outcomes.
  • Ensure that students who intend to move on to higher education benefit from effective careers education, information, advice and guidance to ensure they successfully move on to their next steps.

Report Recommendations

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