Stanmore College - Good

2017 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Improve further the quality of teaching, learning and assessment to ensure that teachers inspire and motivate learners to achieve their very best, enabling a higher proportion of them to achieve their qualifications, particularly younger learners at levels 1 and 2.
• Ensure that teachers help learners to develop their skills in English and mathematics by providing them with strategies to improve the specific skills in which they are not yet proficient.
• Improve further learners’ attendance and punctuality at lessons by setting high expectations for attendance, intervening swiftly when learners do not attend and supporting learners to attend most of their lessons.

Stamford 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.

South Tyneside College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Maintain the momentum of rapid improvements to continue increasing attendance and improving achievement.
• Ensure that learners with high needs, particularly those on supported internships, have meaningful work experience which is related to their individual career aspirations.

South Devon College - Good

2017 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Managers should identify areas for improvement swiftly and accurately to arrest the decline in learners’ achievement of qualifications.
• Teachers should set learners specific, measurable and increasingly challenging targets, and monitor their progress towards achieving these rigorously, to ensure sustained improvements in learners’ achievements over time.
• Teachers should make sure that activities enable learners of all abilities to achieve the highest grades of which they are capable, especially in provision for 14- to 16-year-old learners and vocational study programmes.
• Teachers should ensure that learners understand the importance of English and mathematics as part of their programme and they should support learners to attend lessons and achieve qualifications in these subjects.
• Managers and teachers should ensure that apprentices complete and achieve their functional skills qualifications more quickly. Across the whole of their apprenticeship programme, teachers should set targets for the skills and knowledge apprentices need to develop and closely monitor apprentices’ progress in completing these.

South & City College Birmingham - Requires Improvement

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Rapidly improve the quality of education for learners on education programmes for young people, particularly those aged 14 to 16.
• Make sure learners with high needs receive appropriate targets that focus on the development of essential learning. Ensure the targets are robustly monitored to make certain learners with high needs are making the progress they are capable of.
• Make sure that leaders of the high needs courses have sufficient oversight of the progress learners are making.
• Ensure that attendance to lessons is routinely high.
• Make sure that teachers use the information from learners’ starting points to plan learning.
• Ensure that all learners on education programmes for young people and learners with high needs receive access to meaningful work experience that prepares them for employment.
• Increase the number of learners and apprentices who successfully achieve their qualifications.
• Ensure that learners and apprentices achieve the grades they are capable of.

Sir George Monoux College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Continue to effect action plans in A-level sciences and mathematics to increase the proportion of students who achieve grades A* to B.
• Continue to implement the improvement plans to improve attendance in the subjects where it is too low.

Shooters Hill Sixth Form College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Make sure that teachers of students with high needs in discreet provision are clear about what they expect students on non-accredited programmes to achieve.
• Ensure that students with high needs in discrete provision undertake purposeful workful experience.
• Ensure that, in lessons, explanations of tasks and concepts are clear and correct any misconceptions in students’ knowledge.

Salford City College - Requires Improvement

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does Salford City College need to do to improve further?

• Review the curriculums for students on education programmes for young people to ensure that they are ambitious and challenging for all students.
• Improve assessment to ensure that all students and apprentices rectify misconceptions or gaps in learning and make the progress of which they are capable.
• Improve feedback following assessments so that students know what they need to do to improve their work.
• Improve the use of EHC plans for students with high needs to ensure they make swift progress.
• Strengthen quality assurance and improvement processes to improve the quality of education that students receive.
• Ensure governors provide effective scrutiny and challenge to leaders so that the quality of education improves.

Saint Vincent Sixth Form College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Continue to further improve students’ attendance across all areas of the college’s provision.
• Ensure the tutorial programme is relevant to the needs of all students.

Saint John Rigby Sixth Form College - Outstanding

2024 Full Inspection Report

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

Leadership and management are outstanding. Senior leaders and governors are highly ambitious for their students and their staff. They have an unwavering commitment to provide high-quality education across all subject areas and groups of students. Leaders, managers, teachers and staff at all levels have high aspirations for their students. Students who study at St John Rigby College do extremely well.

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Saint Francis Xavier Sixth Form College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Use initial assessment more effectively in GCSE mathematics to identify individual students’ starting points and the gaps in their skills and knowledge, so they tailor teaching accordingly.
• Increase the proportion of students achieving high grades in GCSE mathematics and a small number of A level subjects.
• Make sure that leaders and managers involve employers and relevant stakeholders in planning the curriculum in all subject areas.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Oldham College - Requires Improvement

2025 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Review the curriculums for students on education programmes for young people to ensure that they are ambitious and challenging.
• Improve teachers’ use of assessment strategies on education programmes for young people to rectify misconceptions or gaps in learning so that students make at least the progress of which they are capable.
• Improve teachers’ feedback following assessments so that students know what they need to do to improve their work and achieve merit and distinction grades where available.
• Improve teachers use of support strategies for students with high needs in vocational areas.

Northampton College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Consistently take account of what students and apprentices already know and can do when planning the curriculum, to ensure that tasks and activities are suitably challenging.
• Provide high needs students on supported learning programmes with enough opportunities to practise their independent living skills and participate in work experience.
• Ensure that all quality assurance processes result in accurate judgements about the quality of education.
• Improve the professional development process for staff so that those staff who are doing well receive focused support to make them even better.

North Warwickshire & South Leicestershire College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Use the starting points of all students and apprentices when planning learning and setting targets to support them to make the progress of which they are capable.
• Provide all students and apprentices with feedback that helps them improve their work.
• Monitor the quality of teaching that students, adult learners and apprentices receive across all courses so that leaders can intervene quickly where necessary.
• Increase the proportion of students aged 16 to 19 studying GCSE English and mathematics who achieve grade 4 or higher.

North Kent College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Provide all apprentices with timely, developmental feedback that enables them to understand their strengths, how to improve and consequently helps them to make excellent progress.
• Further support learners in receipt of high needs funding to take more ownership of their learning and consequently achieve greater independence in their wider lives.
• Ensure all eligible learners take part in an external work placement to extend and consolidate their understanding of workplace practices.
• Further develop the programme of cross college enrichment activities so that learners have better opportunities to explore their interests and talents.

Newham Sixth Form College - Good

2018 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Teachers should:
  • share background information on students more thoroughly
  • use this information better to inform their lesson-planning and target-setting, and to help support all students to achieve their full potential.
• Leaders and managers should ensure that A-level students, and students taking GCSE mathematics, make suitable progress from their starting points and achieve their full potential.
• Managers and teachers should maintain the focus on the strategies recently adopted to address the gaps in performance between different groups of students, especially between male and female students.
• Managers should review timetables to ensure that rooms have the capacity to accommodate the number of students in each lesson.

Newbury College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Leaders must ensure that they provide students aged 16 to 19 years with a full personal development curriculum that includes helping them to recognise and report incidents of sexual harm and wider safeguarding issues.
• Leaders must ensure that all students aged 16 to 19 years are provided with opportunities to engage in work experience or work-related activities, to ensure they are prepared for the world of work.
• Leaders must ensure that the actions being taken to improve the quality of the English and mathematics provision are implemented effectively so that students make good progress in these subjects.
• Leaders must ensure that staff in foundation learning are sufficiently trained to provide the support that students need to make good progress.
• Teachers must ensure that they use assessment more effectively to inform their knowledge of students’ progress and use this information to plan effective teaching.