New College Swindon - Requires Improvement

2025 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Increase the proportion of young learners who achieve their qualifications and the proportion who achieve their target grades.
• Increase the proportion of young learners and learners with high needs who take part in high-quality work experience placements, so that those who plan to move into employment are suitably prepared.
• Monitor the progress that young learners make closely and intervene swiftly where progress slows.
• Provide useful and effective careers information advice and guidance for all learners and apprentices.
• Provide useful, pertinent and accurate information to governors so that they can challenge and support senior leaders more effectively.

Neath Port Talbot College Group

2020 Full Inspection Report

Recommendations

1. Improve outcomes for all learners, particularly in graded vocational qualifications
2. Improve the quality and consistency of teaching, assessment and feedback to ensure that all learners know what they need to do to improve and are stretched and challenged to meet their potential
3. Improve learners’ attendance
4. Improve the quality of provision and outcomes for learners on GCSE English and mathematics courses
5. Strengthen the use and rigour of quality assurance processes to inform planning for improvement

College of Agriculture, Food & Rural Enterprise

2013 Full Inspection Report

What does the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development need to do to improve further?

The College should continue to work to identify and share the outstanding practice in the organisation to further improve the quality of teaching, training and learning across all aspects of its provision.

Coleg Sir Benfro

2017 Full Inspection Report

Recommendations

1. Ensure that learning activities provide sufficient challenge for learners of all abilities, enabling them to attain the highest grades they can
2. Ensure that learners develop their literacy and numeracy skills across the full breadth of their learning programmes
3. Make sure that targets for learners, including those for skills, are specific, challenging and measureable, and regularly reviewed
4. Ensure that self-assessment is concise, evaluative and well informed by an appropriate range of data

Coleg Gwent

2018 Full Inspection Report

Recommendations

1. Improve the quality of teaching so that every teacher engages and challenges all learners to achieve their full potential
2. Evaluate the impact of teaching and training relating to radicalisation and extremism
3. Improve the rigour and accuracy of self-evaluation

Coleg Cambria

2019 Full Inspection Report

Recommendations

1. Reduce the number of learners who take longer to complete their programmes than scheduled
2. Evaluate the impact of the work undertaken on radicalisation and extremism to inform future planning
3. Increase the use of Welsh as a workplace skill

Borders College

2018 Full Inspection Report

Areas for development

• The appointment of class representatives and communication of improvements following Faculty Council meetings is inconsistent, and some students in some areas have not engaged in the review process. Without the successful implementation of the Student Representative Committee (the new structure for learner engagement) planned for 2018/19, there is a risk that the learner voice may not be consistently heard or utilised to inform improvements.
• The number of learners engaging with the Annual Learner Survey (47%) was significantly less than previous years. Inconsistency across areas with very low or no responses in some, may inhibit our ability to fully understand the range of views of college learners, on learning and teaching and other aspects, and therefore to target actions appropriately.
• In a few areas of the College staff are not sufficiently involved in the self-evaluation process and planning for improvement. In these cases staff are insufficiently aware of the available data that would help them to analysis performance.
• The availability and access to well-analysed data is limited by the current IT systems and software; although progress has been made, it has been slower than anticipated. Whilst a range of reporting tools and reports have been created and developed to allow the college to analyse performance, there is inconsistent clarity of purpose surrounding these, which may reduce user confidence in the robustness of the data and accuracy of the reports.

City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College - Good

2015 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Ensure that the good teaching and learning in the college this year result in improved success rates, most importantly for AS-level students; ensure that a higher proportion of A-level students achieve high grades, making the progress of which they are capable.
• Increase the amount of outstanding teaching and learning by ensuring teachers use their good understanding of students’ abilities and needs to provide sufficiently interesting and high levels of challenging activities, so that all students’ knowledge is extended fully and they make good progress.
• Ensure that all A-level students have the opportunity to engage in purposeful external work experience, so that they develop further, career-related work skills and to enhance their already varied learning experiences at college.
• Ensure that leaders’ and managers’ progress monitoring of action plans from self-assessment, consistently judges the impact of actions taken, in order to improve outcomes for students.

Cardiff & Vale College

2019 Full Inspection Report

Recommendations

1. Improve learners’ main qualification outcomes
2. Improve the quality of teaching so that every teacher engages and challenges all learners to achieve their full potential
3. Ensure that all learners develop their literacy and numeracy skills and achieve relevant qualifications
4. Strengthen self-evaluation practices to inform planning for improvement

Activate Learning - Good

2017 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Leaders and managers should speed up plans to improve the quality of the apprenticeship provision, and the quality of teaching, learning and assessment, focusing on those areas where achievement rates are not yet high enough. In particular they should make sure that:
  • managers and assessors identify slow progress or poor performance among apprentices earlier so that more achieve in the planned time
  • assessors set targets with apprentices, during reviews, that help them broaden their technical skills and knowledge
  • assessors improve the quality of their feedback on submitted work to help apprentices develop their skills quicker
  • all teachers use information about the starting points of learners to plan and provide work that is of a level and complexity appropriate to each learner, and develops their mathematical skills.

Hugh Baird College - Outstanding

2024 Full Inspection Report

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

Leaders are passionate advocates for their students and apprentices. They understand the power that education and training has to transform lives and reduce social disadvantage. Their ambition to become the best college in the country is founded on the belief that their students and apprentices, staff and local community deserve the best education and training they can provide.

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Haringey Sixth Form College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Leaders and managers need to identify more precisely weaknesses in the quality of education for learners with high needs in both discrete and mainstream provision. They must implement effective strategies to ensure that learners with high needs benefit from a well-planned curriculum and effective teaching.
• Leaders and managers should continue to implement plans to ensure that all learners benefit from consistent, high-quality teaching. This should include training teachers and tutors in the accurate assessment of what learners know and understand during lessons.
• Leaders should ensure that staff continue to implement strategies to increase attendance and punctuality to meet college targets.
• Leaders and managers should promote and encourage learner engagement with planned enrichment activities. Staff should ensure that learners take up opportunities that will help them to broaden their interests.

Myerscough College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Put appropriate actions in place to ensure that students attend their classes regularly, so that they achieve their qualifications.
• Improve feedback following assessment on programmes for young people, so that students know what they need to do to improve their work.
• Review the curriculums and use the starting points for students with high needs and those on education programmes for young people to ensure they are ambitious.
• Strengthen quality assurance and improvement processes to rapidly improve the quality of education that students receive.
• Improve the use of EHCPs and targets for students with high needs to ensure they develop their wider skills.

Morley College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Leaders should ensure that learners on study programmes achieve their qualifications consistently well across their range of subjects.
• Leaders should ensure that learners on study programmes, including those with high needs, know when the planned programme of work experience will take place. They should make sure that all learners benefit from timely work experience placements.
• Leaders should develop a relevant, age-appropriate curriculum for adult learners, to raise awareness about the dangers of radicalisation and extremism.

Milton Keynes College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Develop the skills and confidence of staff teaching apprentices and students aged 16 to 18 to teach the challenging and difficult subjects in the personal development curriculum, such as sexual harassment and healthy relationships.
• Ensure that students aged 16 to 18, but only those for whom it is appropriate, have the opportunity to participate in meaningful and worthwhile external work experience placements.
• Improve the teaching of GCSE mathematics so that students improve their confidence with this subject and the proportion that achieve at least a grade 4 in their examinations increases.
• Improve the specificity of apprentices’ development targets and the quality of feedback on their written and practical work.

Middlesbrough College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Maintain the strong emphasis on the quality of teaching and training so that all areas of provision are of a very high standard.

Mary Ward Centre - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Assess what students know and can do at the start of their course and set them meaningful goals so tutors can measure their progress effectively.
• Provide students with effective advice and guidance on their next steps across all courses.
• Identify and implement actions to improve the attendance and punctuality of students in areas where this is not high enough.

Marine Society College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Make sure that adult learners are aware of the wider opportunities available to develop their character and skills, and promote their interests.
• Make sure that adult learners engage in their learning sessions.

Manchester College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Provide feedback to students that tells them what they need to do to improve their work and challenges them to strive higher.
• Use questioning techniques that are effective in encouraging students to participate fully in class discussions.
• Fully incorporate students’ EHC plan targets into teaching so the progress of students with high needs can be accurately monitored.
• Increase students’ attendance on the few courses where attendance is still too low.

Manchester Adult Education Service - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Leaders and managers should ensure that learners develop a good understanding of the risks associated with radicalisation and extremism and how it applies to them in their personal lives and at work.
• Leaders should ensure that they fully embed their careers guidance programme across all curriculums and centres so that learners receive independent information, advice and guidance that helps them to make informed career choices.
• Leaders should put in place suitably robust plans to help learners with high needs who are transitioning out of MAES know what actions they need to take to prepare for their next steps.

Macclesfield College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Instigate appropriate actions to ensure that students on education programmes for young people attend their lessons regularly.
• Strengthen quality assurance and improvement processes to rapidly improve the quality of education for young people.
• Improve the use of EHC plans for students with high needs to ensure that they make swift progress towards achieving these outcomes as part of their curriculums.
• Improve the planning and teaching of the curriculums for students on education programmes for young people.
• Ensure the starting points of students on education programmes for young people are used effectively to plan learning.

Luton Sixth Form College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Improve the retention and pass rates on the few vocational courses where these are low.
• Improve student attendance in lessons, particularly GCSE English, mathematics and second-year vocational courses.
• Provide opportunities for students not planning to go to university to receive sufficient and timely CIAG to help them prepare for their next steps.
• Improve employer involvement in the design and review of programmes and qualifications.

South Thames Colleges Group - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Involve employers in the design and implementation of the apprenticeship curriculum, including reviews of the progress that apprentices make, to make sure apprentices achieve their qualifications in a timely manner.
• Improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment on a small number of courses, including engineering and multi-skills construction, to ensure all learners and apprentices receive a consistently good-quality learning experience.
• Provide high-quality feedback to learners and apprentices on their work so that they know what they have done well and how to improve their work and achieve highly.

Lowestoft Sixth Form College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Implement actions to increase the proportion of apprentices who achieve their qualifications in a timely manner.
• Implement actions to increase the proportion of younger students on diploma and A levels who remain on their courses and achieve their qualifications.
• Make sure students’ starting points are used effectively to set tasks that are challenging on the few programmes for young people and in the specialist provision for students with high needs where students find work too easy.

Longley Park Sixth Form College - Good

2018 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Ensure that all teachers plan and teach challenging lessons that inspire all students, including the most able, to make fast progress.
• Analyse the reasons why a minority of students on A-level courses and White British students underperform, and act quickly to improve performance.
• Improve the analysis of data, particularly on students’ participation in work experience and the destinations of students progressing into employment, and use this analysis to identify fully strengths and weaknesses in course content relating to employability, and to make improvements where needed.

Long Road Sixth Form College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Support those small minority of subjects where teaching is not consistently to a high standard to improve rapidly so that all students make at least expected progress from their starting points.
• Increase the proportion of students who participate in the activities available to them outside their timetabled classes.
• Provide ongoing and improved training to students so that they develop a more thorough understanding of the dangers of radicalisation and extremism and a better awareness of how to keep themselves safe from local risks.