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Inspection Report Recommendations

Stockton Riverside 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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Stockton Sixth Form 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.

Stoke-on-Trent College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that the starting points for all apprentices are accurately assessed and are used to inform learning plans that challenge apprentices and support them to make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Leaders and managers should identify apprentices’ English and mathematics skill levels promptly at the start of their apprenticeship and provide relevant training to support their continued development.
  • Leaders and managers should continue to refine the monitoring of apprentices’ progress to ensure that all apprentices make good progress towards completing their apprenticeship by the expected completion date.
  • Leaders should ensure that learners in receipt of high-needs funding are able to participate in a broader range of work experience activities, to enable them to gain a wider understanding of opportunities available to them in the world of work.

Stratford-upon-Avon College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure all learners with high needs are given the opportunity of taking part in meaningful work experience.
  • Ensure learners’ and apprentices’ attendance is consistently high.
  • Improve the proportion of younger learners who successfully complete their studies.

Strode College - Outstanding

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

Leaders create a diverse and inspiring curriculum offer that is ambitious for all. Highly inclusive courses meet local and national skills needs exceptionally well and powerfully tackle social disadvantage. For example, staff work in partnership with British Gymnastics to plan and teach the level 2 community activator coach apprenticeship. Apprentices are supported financially to achieve recognised coaching qualifications, helping them to gain work as professional gymnastics coaches and further develop their careers. Leaders provide students with a wide range of course options to suit their existing knowledge and skills, including a comprehensive suite of level 1 and 2 courses. This includes a level 1 automotive maintenance diploma that teaches students the practical skills and professional behaviours they need to start work in a garage, and a level 2 professional cookery technical certificate that teaches students the skills they need to join a commercial kitchen. Online and distance learning courses make training more accessible for adults. They improve their knowledge in subjects such as understanding autism, and children and young peoples’ mental health.

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Strode's College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure all apprentices complete their training and achieve with the planned time.
  • Make sure teachers are trained in techniques to help students remember more of what they are taught over time.
  • Make sure students with high needs receive the advice they need to make more informed choices about their next steps.

Suffolk New College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that staff communicate effectively with employers throughout the apprenticeship programme so that they know the progress that apprentices are making and can support them to achieve within the planned timescales.
  • Make sure that the quality of teaching in mathematics is of a consistently high standard so that the proportion of learners achieving their qualifications improves.
  • Improve learners and apprentices’ attendance in English and mathematics lessons in line with college expectations.
  • Increase the contribution employers make to the planning, development and teaching of the curriculum, in particular in electrical installation and childcare programmes, so that the taught curriculum meets the specific needs of these sectors.

Sunderland College - Outstanding

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

Leaders and governors have a very clear vision to provide high-quality training and education in the north east region. Senior leaders have dedicated time and effort to transform the college group. They have been on a relentless journey to improve all aspects of students’ and apprentices’ experience across all the college campuses. Through inspirational leadership, the culture of the organisation has become one of high aspiration and continuous improvement. Staff strive to achieve their best and are very proud to work for the organisation.

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Sutton College - Good

2009 Full Inspection Report
What does SCOLA need to do to improve further?
  • Develop and strengthen measures to encourage learners to attend and to take the final examination to help raise their achievement.
  • Improve planning of individual learning, including effective initial assessment, to ensure learners understand and achieve their goals.
  • Build on good practice to develop staff expertise in recognising and recording learners’ progress and achievement across all provision.
  • Introduce measures to ensure that quality improvement processes are implemented effectively to develop the quality of provision across every area.

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.

Swindon & Wiltshire Institute of Technology - 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.

Tameside College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the proportion of apprentices who achieve and ensure that more apprentices remain on their apprenticeship.
  • Improve the accessibility of resources in work experience settings for students with high needs who have complex requirements.
  • Improve feedback following assessment on programmes for young people, so that students know what they need to do to improve their work.

Telford College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Identify and implement actions to increase the proportion of learners who achieve grades A* to C for their A-level qualifications.
  • Ensure that all learners and apprentices receive clear, developmental feedback so they understand how to improve their work and achieve merit and distinction grades.
  • Use the results of apprentices’ initial assessments to improve teaching English and mathematics so they can achieve their functional skills qualifications.

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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Thurrock Adult Community College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders must improve tutors’ use of learners’ starting points in the planning and teaching of the curriculum to ensure that tutors take account of what learners know and can do before they start learning.
  • Leaders must increase the proportion of adult learners that achieve their qualifications.
  • Leaders must design an apprenticeship programme that meets the principles of an apprenticeship programme and ensure that it is suitable and tailored to apprentices’ job roles.
  • Leaders must ensure that apprentices’ line managers have an input into the order and content of the apprenticeship programme so that effective links can be made between on-and off-the-job training.
  • Leaders must ensure that apprentices stay on their programme and successfully achieve their apprenticeship in a timely manner.
  • Leaders must ensure that apprentices receive sufficiently broad and impartial careers guidance so that they know how they can use their skills to progress to their intended next steps.
  • Leaders must ensure that adult learners have a good understanding of the local risks of radicalisation and extremism in the areas in which they live and work.

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.

Trafford & Stockport College Group - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that employers are routinely involved in the planning of on- and off-the-job training and reviews of their apprentices to support apprentices to make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Leaders should identify what apprentices already know and can do at the start of their programme and use this information to ensure they plan a challenging and individualised curriculum.
  • Leaders should review the curriculum for learners with high needs on the ‘choices’ programme to ensure it is challenging and prepares them for future learning or work.
  • Leaders should ensure that they put appropriate actions in place to ensure learners with low attendance attend college regularly.

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.

Tyne Metropolitan 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.

Unified Seevic Palmer's College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that staff set and monitor appropriate personal development targets for all students with high needs on non-accredited courses that help them to make good progress.
  • Continue to work with staff and students to ensure that attendance is consistently high.
  • Continue to develop stakeholder engagement in the very small number of curriculum areas where it is less well advanced.

University College Birmingham - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that all learners and apprentices systematically develop their English and mathematics skills throughout their programmes.
  • Leaders should ensure that all learners and apprentices receive timely and useful feedback on their work, which allows them to understand where they need to improve.
  • Leaders should ensure that learners with high needs who are moving away from the university are supported with effective transition arrangements to move on to their next steps.

Uxbridge 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.

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.

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.

Waltham Forest Adult Learning Service - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders must ensure that they create an organisational culture of high expectations of attendance and punctuality.
  • Managers must ensure that they improve achievement rates across the range of qualifications they offer.
  • Managers should ensure that they have systems in place to capture and record the qualitative changes in learners’ behaviours over time.

Report Recommendations

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