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Inspection Report Recommendations
Uxbridge College
2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders should ensure that learners and apprentices are aware of the enrichment opportunities available at the college to improve participation in these activities.
- Leaders should ensure that teachers of mainstream subjects make consistent use of EHC plan outcomes to plan a bespoke curriculum for learners with high needs that enables learners to develop their independence and the skills they need for work and adult life.
- In a minority of apprenticeship programmes, teachers should improve their sequencing of the curriculum to ensure apprentices develop basic knowledge before learning more-complex topics.
Varndean College
2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Leaders and managers should ensure that:
- all students have good access to effective impartial careers advice and guidance, regardless of where they are intending to progress, so that they can make informed decisions about their next steps
- teachers develop students’ literacy and numeracy skills across all academic and vocational areas, so that more students improve and refine these skills to a higher level
- all students have a suitable range of work-related activities and work-experience placements appropriate to their career aims
- all students have a comprehensive and secure understanding of the risks associated with radicalisation and extremism and are confident about how to protect themselves from these risks
- they improve processes for evaluating the quality of teaching, learning and assessment, making sure that managers can more clearly articulate the precise actions teachers must take to improve.
Wakefield College
2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment in mathematics classes for adults, so that a higher proportion of students achieve their functional skills qualifications.
- Ensure that teachers of GCSE English and mathematics on study programmes challenge and enable their students to achieve the highest grades possible.
- Ensure that all students with high needs rapidly improve their skills for independence, communication and social interaction. To do this, managers should work with staff to improve target-setting for students’ development of these skills, and the monitoring and recording of their progress.
- Tackle the remaining pockets of low attendance so that all students develop good habits that will prepare them well for their futures.
Walsall College
2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders and managers should continue to improve the teaching of GCSE English and mathematics for learners aged 16 to 18 and of functional skills mathematics for adults, so that a higher proportion of learners achieve. They should also ensure that apprentices develop their English and mathematical skills beyond the level of their qualifications on entry.
- Leaders and managers should ensure that the number of young people who undertake high-quality external work experience improves. They have rightly encouraged students to reflect on their work placement and they should ensure that the quality of reflection is consistently high.
- Leaders and managers should ensure that the quality of teaching – particularly the checking of learning and levels of challenge for all students – is consistently good across all provision.
- Leaders and managers should ensure that attendance across the college consistently meets the college target.
Waltham Forest Adult Learning Service
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.
Waltham Forest College
2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Improve learners’ attendance by developing new strategies to tackle this problem; in particular, all teachers should reinforce the same high expectations on the importance of attendance at college.
- Through staff development priorities:
- work with teachers to ensure a consistent and suitable level of detail and challenge in the targets they set for learners
- ensure that teachers provide suitably detailed feedback to learners so learners know what actions to take to improve their work.
- Ensure that managers and teachers strengthen further their links with employers, use them to create further work experience opportunities for learners on study programmes, and ensure that learners use the work experience appropriately to develop their employability skills.
- Extend the accessibility of careers guidance to apprentices more and, where appropriate, promote apprenticeships more widely as a career option for other learners.
- Ensure that assessors work more closely with apprentices to raise their awareness of how to stay safe online.
Wandsworth Lifelong Learning
2016 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Improve the attendance of learners by:
- supporting smaller providers to develop strategies to improve learners’ attendance
- setting ambitious targets for the attendance of learners
- monitoring the effectiveness of these arrangements closely.
- Increase the availability of accredited English and mathematics courses to learners by utilising funding so that qualifications offered are more closely aligned with the learners’ aspirations to gain employment.
- Build the capacity of tutors through training, staff development and extending the resources available to them so that they are confident in promoting British values and improving learners’ understanding of radicalisation and extremism.
Warrington & Vale Royal College
2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders and managers should ensure that teachers in plumbing, joinery and in GCSE English and mathematics identify the gaps in students’ knowledge and deliver the curriculum to build on what they already know and can do.
- Ensure that teachers of learners who have high needs plan an ambitious foundation level curriculum so that learners can meet challenging goals.
- Increase the attendance of adults on access to higher education, beauty therapy and theatrical and media make-up courses.
Warwickshire College Group
2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Increase the number of learners who make good progress and achieve qualifications in English by ensuring that:
- all staff who teach English have both the subject skills and the teaching skills to help all learners develop their knowledge and skills quickly
- vocational teachers consistently include activities in their lessons that promote the development of good writing skills
- vocational staff provide clear guidance on marked work that helps learners to improve their writing, and check that learners follow this guidance on subsequent work.
- Provide training for staff in underperforming subjects so that they:
- take into account learners’ existing abilities and plan lessons that provide appropriate challenge for all members of the group
- plan for learning that provides an increasing level of challenge over time and equips learners with the skills they need to meet this challenge.
- Take firm action to improve attendance, particularly in English and mathematics lessons.
West College Scotland
2018 Full Inspection Report
Areas for Development
- Further interventions are to be designed and implemented, with a view to improving the success and progression rates for care-experienced students.
- A more cohesive, college wide approach, aligning and developing current initiatives, is required, to support good mental health.
- There is more scope to work with the Student Association to promote and celebrate our inclusive culture across all curriculum areas and campuses.
West Hertfordshire College
2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders must ensure that they help staff to improve the professional behaviours of the minority of learners who do not reflect the high standards demonstrated by most learners across the college.
- Leaders must ensure that managers and teachers of the minority of subjects where learning is not yet consistently good work together effectively to plan the curriculum and share good practice. This will ensure that learners are able to apply new learning to their studies fluently.
West Lancashire College
2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Improve the quality of education for apprentices by:
- identifying the starting points of apprentices more accurately, so that skills trainers can plan and teach programmes that enable apprentices to develop substantial new knowledge, skills and behaviours
- developing more effective links with employers so that they are fully involved in the planning of on-the-job training
- ensuring that managers provide more rigorous scrutiny of the progress that apprentices make in the development of their knowledge, skills and behaviours
- providing all apprentices with the opportunity to receive careers advice.
- Ensure that all teachers and learning support assistants have secure knowledge in the subjects they teach and in which they provide support.
- Increase the attendance of learners at English and mathematics lessons.
West London College
2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders must improve the quality of education across the provision. They must ensure that all programmes are sufficiently challenging for learners and that the quality of teaching and assessment is improved, so that a greater proportion of learners and apprentices stay on their programmes and go on to make good progress.
- Leaders must ensure that there is a more rigorous focus on improving learners’ attendance, so that a higher proportion of learners develop this vital skill for employment.
- Leaders must ensure that learners and apprentices receive high-quality feedback on work and in progress reviews that helps them to know how to improve their work.
- Leaders need to expand the personal development curriculum, so that learners develop their wider knowledge, talents and interests. Within this, leaders should ensure that learners remember what they have been taught about the dangers of radicalisation and extremism. Learners should be fully informed about the opportunities available to them at the end of their programme.
- Leaders need to ensure that on education programmes for young people, they have sufficient staff to teach the courses, and suitable contingency plans in place where staff are absent, so that lessons are not disrupted and learners have a more consistent and stable learning experience, so that they can make good progress.
West London Institute of Technology
2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders should ensure that learners and apprentices are aware of the enrichment opportunities available at the college to improve participation in these activities.
- Leaders should ensure that teachers of mainstream subjects make consistent use of EHC plan outcomes to plan a bespoke curriculum for learners with high needs that enables learners to develop their independence and the skills they need for work and adult life.
- In a minority of apprenticeship programmes, teachers should improve their sequencing of the curriculum to ensure apprentices develop basic knowledge before learning more-complex topics.
West Lothian College
2018 Full Inspection Report
Areas for development
- While the Gender Action Plan promotes activity across all curriculum and service areas, further action is required at course level to address gender imbalance on traditionally male/female dominated courses.
- There is an increased demand for support for the mental health problems faced by students, placing considerable strain on both support and curriculum staff.
- The college has not yet developed, in collaboration with students, an Equally Safe strategic framework to prevent gender based violence on campus.
West Nottinghamshire College
2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Ensure that the quality of teaching, learning and assessment for learners aged 16 to 19 consistently reaches the standard of that seen for adult learners and apprentices. In particular, teachers should be supported to:
- consider the abilities and prior attainment of all learners in a group so that they plan and deliver lessons that challenge the most able and give extra help to those who need it
- improve their use of a variety of formative assessment methods, including the use of questioning, so that they are able to judge the progress of all learners and adjust their teaching accordingly
- consistently provide high-quality feedback on written work so that, over time, learners are able to improve the standard of their submissions
- develop targets for learners that focus on the acquisition of skills and knowledge, and monitor the effectiveness of these in improving learners’ progress.
- Improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment in English and mathematics in discrete lessons for all learners; for learners aged 16 to 19, improve the extent to which teachers incorporate these subjects in their lessons, so that a higher proportion of learners make good progress and achieve their qualifications.
West of England Institute of Technology
2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the college need to do to improve further?
- Ensure that managers and teachers take effective action to improve the small minority of underperforming courses, especially in the GCE AS- and A-level provision.
West Suffolk College
2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders and managers should ensure that students and apprentices attend English and mathematics lessons regularly so that they learn the skills and knowledge that they need to achieve on their courses.
- Leaders and managers must ensure that education, health and care plan targets are broken down thoroughly so that teachers can use them to plan learning activities that develop students’ skills and knowledge, so that students achieve their planned goals.
- Leaders and managers must ensure that students and apprentices receive helpful feedback on their work so that they understand what they need to do to improve, how to make improvements and to prepare themselves for future study.
- Leaders and managers should ensure that all students and apprentices have a good understanding of the careers opportunities available to them when they complete their courses so that they are able to make informed decisions about, and plan for, their future careers.
West Thames College
2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders should ensure that the quality of education in the small proportion of subjects where it requires improving meets the high standard of other subject areas across the college.
- Managers and teachers should consistently provide learners with high-quality feedback on marked work, so that all learners know what they have done well and how to improve.
- Leaders should ensure that managers and teachers on apprenticeship courses plan and teach an effective personal development curriculum, including access to suitable careers advice and guidance.Leaders and managers need to:
Westminster Adult Education Service
2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders and managers should ensure that teachers on all programmes consistently check that learners remember what they have been taught.
- Leaders and managers should ensure that teachers on all programmes give effective feedback and targets so that all learners know how to improve.
- Leaders and managers should ensure that learners are effectively informed and have good recall of the dangers of radicalisation and extremism.
Weston College
2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the college need to do to improve further?
- Ensure that managers and teachers take effective action to improve the small minority of underperforming courses, especially in the GCE AS- and A-level provision.
Weymouth College
2015 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Ensure that all learners gain the necessary qualifications in English and mathematics by checking they attend all their English and mathematics lessons, and they benefit from teachers fully integrating both English and mathematics into vocational lessons. Raise the profile and importance of learners achieving qualifications in English and mathematics by working with employers and parents.
- Provide further development for staff teams in subjects which are not yet good and ensure that they learn from higher-performing teams within the college.
- Develop managers’ skills in assessing the quality of teaching, learning and assessment using a wide range of indicators in addition to annual lesson observations. Monitor the quality of assessor practice for apprentices and the impact of additional learning support. Encourage teachers to reflect regularly on their practice.
Wigan & Leigh College
2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Leaders and managers should rapidly improve the few programmes that are underperforming, including level 3 animal management, so that learners and apprentices benefit from an ambitious curriculum and make the progress of which they are capable.
- Leaders and managers should ensure that apprentices and learners with high needs receive independent information, advice and guidance about their chosen pathways and potential career opportunities so that they can make informed, long-term career choices.
- Leaders and managers should plan a personal development curriculum that apprentices can participate in and benefit from.
- Leaders and managers should ensure that apprentices develop a good understanding of radicalisation and extremism and how it applies to them while at work and in their personal lives.
Wilberforce College
2015 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Plan tasks and activities for students to complete in lessons and independently that take account of their different abilities and ensure the most able acquire and practise the knowledge and skills needed to produce higher standards of work.
- Use the data on students’ prior achievement more carefully to set clear and aspirational targets that help motivate students to achieve their full potential.
- Share existing good practice in teaching, learning and assessment between teachers and assessors to increase the proportion of outstanding teaching. Support teachers to develop teaching and learning strategies so that more students achieve their full potential and make excellent progress. Ensure managers monitor the effectiveness of teaching, learning and assessment strategies that teachers use to help students achieve their targets.
- Extend the range of work-related activities and external work-experience opportunities so that more students develop employability skills.
- Strengthen the arrangements to monitor attendance and provide support and challenge to students so that they attend more regularly and realise their full potential.
- Monitor the rigour of subject-level self-assessment so that areas for improvement are identified accurately and link clearly to the college quality improvement plan.
- Sustain the improvement in success rates and improve the provision where it is not yet good by continuing to rigorously monitor performance and intervene where necessary
William Morris Sixth Form College
2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the school need to do to improve?
- There are limited opportunities for students to participate in extra-curricular activities. Some students are not involved in school activities beyond their lessons. Leaders should ensure that they implement their plans to increase the range of enrichment opportunities so that all students broaden their interests and develop new skills and talents beyond the subjects they study.
- Some students do not attend school as regularly as they should. Leaders’ recently revised systems for encouraging regular attendance are in the early stages of showing impact. Leaders should ensure that processes for following up student absence are fully embedded so that students’ overall attendance improves.