London Learning Consortium - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve further?

• Make sure that a high proportion of apprentices achieve their qualifications in the planned time, and that a high proportion of learners and apprentices achieve a grade 4 or higher in GCSE English and mathematics.
• Provide vocational and SEND training and development opportunities for staff to enhance their skills and expertise.
• Provide opportunities for learners and apprentices to explore their talents and interests outside of their core curriculum.

Loughborough College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Ensure that curriculum plans for all apprenticeship programmes clearly identify the material to be learned and the ways in which it will be taught.
• Ensure that all learners with high needs benefit from individualised learning plans that address their personal development needs.
• Ensure that all apprentices have access to appropriate careers information, advice and guidance.

Lincoln College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Increase attendance rates for students on education programmes for young people on those courses with poor attendance.
• Support the few teachers who need to develop their skills in planning, how they provide explanations and their use of assessment.
• Continue to improve retention and achievement rates on GCSE English and mathematics and for the remaining courses where they are too low.

Leyton Sixth Form College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Increase the proportion of students who complete their qualifications in the few courses where achievement is too low.
• Improve the monitoring of progress for learners who have EHC plans to make sure they have well-planned opportunities to work towards their outcomes.
• Make sure that a higher proportion of students attend their lessons on time.

Leeds College of Building - Requires Improvement

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Ensure that actions currently being taken lead to rapid improvements in attendance, punctuality and students arriving at lessons ready to learn.
• Ensure that apprentices who require English and mathematics qualifications achieve these in time to progress to end-point assessment.
• Improve the oversight of provision to gain assurance that students and apprentices are making good progress.
• Ensure that managers follow up improvement actions identified through quality assurance activities and evaluate their impact.
• Ensure that students on study programmes benefit from meaningful encounters with the world of work.
• Improve processes for target setting and measuring the progress of students with high needs to ensure that they make good progress and achieve well.

Lancaster & Morecambe College - Good

2020 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Ensure that the recording of the progress of learners with high needs, against their EHC plan outcomes, effectively identifies what skills, knowledge and behaviours they have consolidated. Consider and plan for what learners still need to learn to ensure that they are ready for their next steps.
• Further improve attendance and punctuality so that learners on all programmes attend regularly, complete their programmes and develop the skills required for employment.
• Ensure that apprentices and learners on ‘Aspire’ programmes receive timely and up-to-date relevant careers advice and guidance so that they can make decisions on their next steps.

Lakes College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Improve the quality of teaching that adult learners receive to provide them with the support they need to prepare them for their next steps.
• Improve the quality of teaching on the minority of poorly performing apprenticeships so that all apprentices receive the same high-quality teaching.
• Ensure that all teachers set sufficiently precise targets for all learners and apprentices to enable the effective monitoring of their progress.
• Ensure that all learners and apprentices, including those with high needs, understand the risks associated with radicalisation and extremism.
• Use the information on learners’ starting points to plan learning that enables all learners to make the progress of which they are capable, in particular for the most able.

Saint Helens College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Leaders and managers should ensure that teachers use information about young people’s and adult students’ starting points to plan and teach ambitious programmes that prepare students for their next steps and develop their learning beyond the requirements of the qualification.
• Leaders and managers must ensure that young people and adults attend their classes frequently, so that they remain on their courses and achieve their qualifications.
• Teachers should improve feedback following assessment on programmes for adults and young people, so that it is prompt and of a consistently high standard and helps students know what they need to do to improve their work.
• Leaders and managers should provide all students with consistently high-quality careers guidance across all subjects that helps students to plan their next steps in education, employment or training.
• Leaders and managers should tackle staff shortages and ensure that staff have a manageable workload that is balanced equally across all staff.

Knowsley Community College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Leaders and managers should ensure that teachers use information about young people’s and adult students’ starting points to plan and teach ambitious programmes that prepare students for their next steps and develop their learning beyond the requirements of the qualification.
• Leaders and managers must ensure that young people and adults attend their classes frequently, so that they remain on their courses and achieve their qualifications.
• Teachers should improve feedback following assessment on programmes for adults and young people, so that it is prompt and of a consistently high standard and helps students know what they need to do to improve their work.
• Leaders and managers should provide all students with consistently high-quality careers guidance across all subjects that helps students to plan their next steps in education, employment or training.
• Leaders and managers should tackle staff shortages and ensure that staff have a manageable workload that is balanced equally across all staff.

Kirklees College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Improve the areas of the curriculum that are not yet of consistently high quality, particularly on education programmes for young people.
• Ensure that the quality of feedback is consistently high to help students and apprentices understand how to improve.
• Continue to improve attendance and punctuality.
• Ensure that a much higher proportion of students and apprentices participate in the enrichment and wider curriculum opportunities that are available to them.

King Edward VI College, Stourbridge - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Increase the number of students who attain the very best grades, ensuring that the most able students make the progress of which they are capable.
• Continue to improve the consistency in the quality of teaching that students receive, ensuring that all teachers challenge students to achieve their very best in the classroom.
• Improve the quality and consistency of students’ encounters with the world of work, ensuring that the work-ready skills being developed are reinforced through taught curriculums effectively.

Kent Adult Education Service - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Make sure that young learners receive useful feedback about how they can improve their work, so they make the progress of which they are capable.
• Make sure that a higher proportion of learners and apprentices attend their lessons and take swift actions to support those who do not attend.
• Make sure that learners benefit from opportunities to broaden their wider talents and interests.

Kendal College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Improve quality assurance processes to accurately identify weaknesses in the quality of education and put actions in place to rectify them swiftly.
• Improve the planning and teaching of the curriculums for learners on education programmes for young people, particularly on A-level courses.
• Provide all learners and apprentices with constructive feedback that tells them what they need to do to improve their work.
• Work closer with employers to coordinate apprentices’ training at college with the skills they are learning in the workplace.
• Plan teaching effectively to meet the needs of learners with high needs enrolled on level 1 vocational studies.

Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College - Outstanding

2023 Full Inspection Report

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

Leaders have developed highly ambitious curriculums that are designed to enable all learners, many of whom are from areas of deprivation or speak English as an additional language, to develop the knowledge and skills they need for their next steps. Leaders work to proactively improve the opportunities available to disadvantaged learners and increase their participation in education.

etc.

John Leggott College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Ensure that students studying A-level biology remain on their course and achieve their qualification.
• Improve the consistency and quality of teaching that students receive so that all students make the progress of which they are capable.
• Ensure that all students have the opportunity to access relevant work placement opportunities.
• Consider the strategic intent for the ESOL courses for adult students and ensure that the teaching on these courses is of a good quality.
• Ensure that all students understand local risks and have a sufficiently well-developed understanding of extremism and radicalisation.

Isle of Wight College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Leaders and managers should ensure they plan the curriculum effectively so that all apprentices can complete their qualifications within the planned period of time.
• Leaders and managers should ensure students studying English and mathematics benefit from high-quality education which helps them to make the rapid progress of which they are capable.
• Leaders and managers should ensure that all adult learners and apprentices benefit from a personal development programme of learning that helps them to develop their wider skills and interests.

Huddersfield New College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improv?

• Continue to provide supportive professional training to enhance the quality of teaching, particularly in areas where further improvement is needed.
• Ensure that all students acquire the independent study skills needed to consolidate their learning and recall key content quickly and securely.
• Ensure that students on blended programmes have sufficient work experience opportunities to help them to prepare fully for the world of work.

Hopwood Hall College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does Hopwood Hall College need to do to improve?

• Leaders should ensure that staff who work with learners with complex needs receive the appropriate training to enable them to provide effective support that meets the needs of all learners with high needs.
• Leaders should ensure that they improve attendance in the areas where attendance is too low, particularly English and mathematics.
• Leaders should ensure that all lecturers use assessment appropriately to identify gaps in learning so that they can use this information to inform their teaching and help learners to understand key concepts.
• Leaders should ensure that they further embed their careers programme in all curriculum areas so that all learners and apprentices benefit from advice and guidance on their next steps.

Holy Cross College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Create a challenging and broad level 2 curriculum for the high proportion of students who achieve their GCSE English and mathematics resit qualifications in the academic year.
• Ensure that all subjects perform at the same consistently high standard across the college and increase the number of students who achieve the highest grades.

Belfast Metropolitan College

2013 Full Inspection Report

What does the Belfast Metropolitan College need to do to improve further?

The College needs to:

• implement a coherent strategy to improve the quality of teaching and learning across the College, that is underpinned by rigorous monitoring and evaluation, and a widespread continual professional development programme with a strong focus on developing effective pedagogy;
• strengthen quality management across the College, particularly the effective use of data and rigorous self-evaluation that is supported with more timely intervention strategies to address underperformance;
• clarify more explicitly the roles of the curriculum managers in monitoring and evaluating the quality of the provision;
• take urgent action to improve the inadequate quality of the provision in transport operations and maintenance, particularly assessment tracking and recording, collegial working and the process for self-evaluation; and
• strengthen the quality of leadership and management of the work-based learning provision, in particular the monitoring and tracking of the progress of trainees and apprentices, and self-evaluation procedures including the work of sub-contracted training providers.

Hereward College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Leaders should ensure that adult learners, where they are able, are supported to develop their knowledge and skills beyond that of the basic qualification content.
• Leaders should ensure that teachers create opportunities for adult learners to revisit and secure their understanding of fundamental British values across the duration of their course.

Hereford College of Arts - Outstanding

2023 Full Inspection Report

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

Leaders have selected curriculums that allow learners to creatively and flexibly develop the knowledge, skills and professional behaviours needed to work and study in the creative industries. They bring together the skills needed for employment and for personal and professional development. They broaden vocational skills beyond the ask of the curriculum to ensure that learners have highly developed opportunities to understand their skills and future direction.

etc.

Havant & South Downs College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Continue to make sure that all apprentices achieve their qualifications successfully and in a timely manner.
• Make sure that all learners participate in additional activities available to them through the college so that they benefit from opportunities to further develop their personal and social interests.
• Make sure teachers of learners with high needs track the progress they make to enable them to further develop their knowledge, skills and behaviours.

Hammersmith & Fulham Adult Learning & Skills Service - Good

2010 Full Inspection Report

What does the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham need to do to improve further?

• Further improve outcomes in arts, media and publishing and languages, by empowering learners to have full ownership of setting and achieving challenging goals.
• Further improve the quality of teaching and learning by ensuring that: all learner journals are rich and detailed; all staff make effective use of ILT; and literacy, numeracy and language support is properly embedded in all lessons.

Halesowen College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report

What does the provider need to do to improve?

• Increase retention and achievement rates for apprentices.
• Ensure apprenticeship teachers plan and use effective teaching strategies.
• Increase the number of learners and apprentices who achieve high grades.
• Improve the sequencing of the curriculums for apprenticeships.
• Ensure apprentices receive high-quality careers education, advice and guidance.
• Increase attendance and achievement rates for learners who study mathematics and English qualifications as part of their studies.
• Increase learners’ participation in work experience and work-related activities.

Hadlow 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.