Havering Adult College - Requires Improvement

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Plan, teach and assess the ESOL curriculum so that learners can advance more quickly through different levels and achieve qualifications relevant to them.
• Improve the data collected about learners’ progress and destinations, and share this information with governors.
• Give learners feedback that helps them understand the steps they need to take to improve their work.
• Identify learners’ strengths and areas for development, and use this information to plan teaching so that teachers close gaps in learning and challenge learners.

Fircroft College of Adult Education - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Ensure that all learners develop their English and mathematics skills.
• Ensure that all learners have access to CEIAG throughout their studies.
• Ensure that leaders and teachers work with employers to develop curriculums that reflect the needs of employers.
• Monitor the next steps for learners on non-accredited programmes.

East Norfolk Sixth Form College - Good

2016 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Rapidly improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment in the small minority of subject areas where performance is not yet to a sufficiently high standard by ensuring that:
  • leaders and managers focus on improving the performance of the few teachers who have not yet enabled students to achieve the high grades of which they are capable
  • teachers plan a broad range of activities and tasks that meet the different ability levels of students and challenge them to excel.
• Ensure that teachers reinforce routinely the use of subject-related mathematics in lessons to enable students to improve their mathematics skills through regular practice.
• Urgently improve attendance on discrete English and mathematics courses, so that students develop these skills, achieve their qualifications and are better prepared for their next steps.
• Ensure that the tutorial programme meets the needs of all students and challenges them to improve their personal and social skills effectively.

Croydon Adult Learning & Training - Good

2010 Full Inspection Report

What does Croydon Adult Learning and Training need to do to improve further?

• Continue to implement strategies to improve success rates, particularly in literacy and numeracy courses.
• Develop systems for more robust monitoring of attendance to enable all learners successfully to complete their learning aims and qualifications.
• Ensure the good practice around planning for individual learning is shared more widely.
• Further develop the use of information learning technology to meet a wider range of learners’ needs in lessons and support learning strategies.
• Continue to implement measures to ensure available resources are managed effectively to provide value for money.

Dudley Sixth Form College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Increase the number of apprentices who remain on programme and achieve their apprenticeship on time.
• Ensure that all learners and apprentices receive routinely planned CEIAG.
• Ensure that all teachers receive sufficient vocational updating as part of their continual professional development programme.
• Continue to improve attendance and punctuality, notably in English and mathematics, for learners on education programmes for young people.

York College - Good

2013 Full Inspection Report

What does York College need to do to improve further?

• Take swift action to reverse the low success rates on foundation and intermediate qualifications in English and mathematics, so that students on those courses achieve to the same high standards as students in the rest of the college.
• Improve the quality of the few lessons that require improvement by ensuring that tutors make better use of all of the available information about students to plan learning to meet individual needs.

Yeovil College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Improve rapidly the quality of programmes for learners with high needs.
• Ensure that teachers and support staff in academic and vocational areas have the necessary skills and knowledge to support learners with high needs effectively.
• Monitor improvement plans more effectively and ensure they have a positive impact on the quality of education.
• Ensure that leaders have an effective oversight of the processes designed to maintain learner safety.
• Make sure that governors receive sufficient timely information to hold college leaders to account.
• Make sure that all learners have a secure knowledge of the signs and dangers associated with radicalisation.

Xaverian College - Outstanding

2023 Full Inspection Report

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

Leaders plan a highly ambitious curriculum that develops students and prepares them for aspirational destinations. They work closely with other GM providers to provide a Manchester-wide curriculum offer that meets the needs of their diverse and growing post-16 community of students. Leaders, managers and teachers provide a consistently high-quality education. They understand the important role they play in responding to social disadvantage and meeting the needs of students who aspire to progress to university.

etc.

Wyke Sixth Form College - Outstanding

2013 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Improve teaching, learning and assessment across all provision by ensuring that all teachers develop a wider range of learning strategies that fully engage students and promote their independent learning skills. Share the college’s best practice to develop all teachers’ skills and to raise standards of teaching, learning and assessment from good to outstanding.
• Tackle the remaining underperformance in the few weaker subjects and in doing so increase the proportion of higher grades at GCE A level so that they exceed national benchmarks. Share the best practice within the college to allow more rapid improvement in these areas so that all students benefit from high-quality lessons that enable them to make the progress needed to achieve their potential.
• Ensure quality assurance systems are applied consistently in all subject areas to tackle underperformance and enable high-quality delivery across all college provision. Make sure that the lesson observation system always indicates what teachers need to do to improve and is linked to both the appraisal process and staff training and development.
• Provide further development opportunities to help teachers to promote equality and diversity successfully in their lessons so that students develop a wider and deeper understanding of these issues. Use the lesson observation system more effectively to monitor how this aspect of teaching and learning is being developed.

Working Men's College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Improve learners’ attendance and punctuality so that they are consistently high across courses.
• Increase the range of opportunities learners have to develop their talents and interests outside of their courses.
• Provide SEND training and development for staff who teach and support learners with additional needs.

Workers' Educational Association - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Make sure that teaching is consistently good on ESOL programmes, leading to good outcomes for these learners.
• Work closer with employers and stakeholders to make sure they are involved in designing and teaching the curriculum.

Worcester Sixth Form College - Good

2012 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Increase the proportion of outstanding lessons through meeting the learning needs of all students and by improving their motivation. Ensure that all students are fully engaged in learning and progressing well.
• Use the full range of information about students, including initial and course assessment, to plan activities, which meet their individual needs. Ensure that all students have the language, literacy, numeracy and personal skills to participate fully in planned activities to achieve their potential.
• Monitor students’ progress and achievement consistently across the college so that staff identify promptly those at risk of non-completion or underachievement and provide the appropriate support or curriculum. Senior managers should support middle managers to ensure consistency in standards across all subject areas.
• Research and identify the reasons for the underachievement of male students and put in place the appropriate measures to raise their achievement.
• Share the good practice in teaching teams especially in engaging students in teaching and learning, the use of information learning technology and the virtual learning environment, and promotion of equality and diversity in lessons. Learn from best practice within the further education sector particularly in relation to the needs of students on vocational programmes.
• Strengthen and implement fully the revised arrangements for management of the performance of staff including the observation of teaching and learning. Use data and information better to set targets for improvement, which are more challenging.

Weymouth College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Provide all learners and apprentices with feedback that helps them to improve.
• Ensure that the apprenticeship curriculum integrates on- and off-the-job training well so that all apprentices make good progress.

Weston College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the college need to do to improve?

• Ensure that the actions taken by leaders to improve the quality of education and training programmes, including those provided by subcontractors, lead to rapid improvements.
• Ensure that all learners and apprentices, including those studying with subcontractors, receive high-quality feedback, and are set challenging targets that enable them to continually improve the standard of their work.
• Ensure that all adult learners and apprentices study a high-quality personal development curriculum.
• Ensure that all learners aged 16 to 18, and learners with high needs, are supported effectively by staff to achieve high grades in their qualifications commensurate with their ability.

West Nottinghamshire College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Leaders should ensure plans for apprentices’ on-and-off-the-job learning are used consistently to inform practice and consolidation activity.
• Leaders should continue their work to stabilise the electrical curriculum and provide tailored support for the teaching team.
• Leaders should ensure all teachers set learners demanding work that helps them achieve high work standards over time.
• Leaders should ensure all teachers use assessment effectively, so learners retain their learning over time, and know what they need to do to improve their work and skills further.

Warwickshire College Group - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Provide an ambitious curriculum for learners who study GCSE English. Ensure that learners develop the wider English skills they need for everyday life.
• Ensure that teachers routinely provide feedback that helps learners and apprentices make the improvements they need to reach their potential.
• Swiftly respond to the needs of level 3 engineering technician apprentices who have gone beyond their completion date.
• Rapidly improve attendance for younger learners with a particular focus on learners studying GCSE in English and mathematics.

Warrington & Vale Royal College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Ensure that teachers and coaches systematically use information about what students, notably adults and those with high needs, already know and can do to plan learning and set meaningful targets.
• Ensure that all teachers and coaches use effective checks on learning to identify progress and gaps in knowledge and skills accurately.
• Ensure that all teachers and coaches provide helpful feedback for students and apprentices.

Wandsworth Lifelong Learning - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Use the information on what learners know and can do at the start of their course to set meaningful targets for learners on non-accredited courses.
• Plan the ESOL curriculum at South Thames College so that it meets learners’ specific needs.
• Implement strategies so that learners’ attendance is good, wherever they study.

Waltham Forest College - Outstanding

2024 Full Inspection Report

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

Senior leaders and governors provide exceptional leadership and management to widen participation. They work relentlessly to ensure learners and apprentices, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, receive consistently high-quality teaching and training. During their studies at the college, learners and apprentices make considerable progress from their often-low starting points. Most learners, including learners who have high needs and those at their subcontractors, achieve extremely well.

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Walsall College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Increase achievement rates for learners and apprentices.
• Increase attendance for young learners.
• Increase the achievement rates for GCSE English and mathematics at grade 4 and above.

Heart of Yorkshire Education Group - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Maintain the focus on improving apprenticeship provision, particularly at Selby College, to enable apprentices to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours that they need to succeed in their chosen career pathways.
• Take action to reduce the number of learners on A-level courses at Wakefield who leave their courses early.
• Ensure that all teachers use learners’ and apprentices’ starting points effectively to plan relevant new learning.

Varndean College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Continue to significantly improve the number of learners who complete their courses as they had originally planned.
• Ensure that all adult learners develop the employability skills they need for their next steps.

Truro & Penwith College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Plan and teach an ambitious curriculum that meets the individual learning and support needs of students on progression pathways programmes.
• Plan and teach lessons that are suitably demanding for adult students that build on their existing knowledge and skills.

Totton College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Ensure learners’ and apprentices’ attendance continues to improve until it is high.
• Ensure apprentices receive feedback on written work that helps them improve the quality of their work.
• Ensure all learners have a clear understanding of local risks.
• Ensure all younger learners with high needs are provided with meaningful work experience.

Thomas Rotherham College - Outstanding

2024 Full Inspection Report

Leaders and managers have a very clear rationale for the programmes that they provide. They offer a highly ambitious curriculum which successfully meets the needs of their students, many of whom are from disadvantaged backgrounds, and which is responsive to local and national skills priorities. Leaders realise this ambition by ensuring that students achieve outcomes that enable them to progress to the next stage of their education and career.

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Swarthmore Education Centre - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Identify accurate starting points for students and use this information to ensure that students have appropriate targets agreed in their individual learning plans.
• Provide high-quality work experience linked to students’ long-term aspirations and interests as soon as students are ready.
• Provide staff with training that supports them to develop the teaching skills they need to teach students with high needs.
• Ensure that leaders, managers and trustees have effective oversight of the quality of the provision and the progress of students.
• Ensure that all students make expected progress towards achieving their English and mathematics qualifications.
• Ensure that teachers check the understanding of students, as well as the progress that they make, effectively.