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Inspection Report Recommendations

Waltham Forest College - Outstanding

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

Senior leaders and governors provide exceptional leadership and management to widen participation. They work relentlessly to ensure learners and apprentices, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, receive consistently high-quality teaching and training. During their studies at the college, learners and apprentices make considerable progress from their often-low starting points. Most learners, including learners who have high needs and those at their subcontractors, achieve extremely well.

etc.

Wandsworth Lifelong Learning - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Use the information on what learners know and can do at the start of their course to set meaningful targets for learners on non-accredited courses.
  • Plan the ESOL curriculum at South Thames College so that it meets learners’ specific needs.
  • Implement strategies so that learners’ attendance is good, wherever they study.

Warrington & Vale Royal College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that teachers and coaches systematically use information about what students, notably adults and those with high needs, already know and can do to plan learning and set meaningful targets.
  • Ensure that all teachers and coaches use effective checks on learning to identify progress and gaps in knowledge and skills accurately.
  • Ensure that all teachers and coaches provide helpful feedback for students and apprentices.

Warwickshire College Group - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Provide an ambitious curriculum for learners who study GCSE English. Ensure that learners develop the wider English skills they need for everyday life.
  • Ensure that teachers routinely provide feedback that helps learners and apprentices make the improvements they need to reach their potential.
  • Swiftly respond to the needs of level 3 engineering technician apprentices who have gone beyond their completion date.
  • Rapidly improve attendance for younger learners with a particular focus on learners studying GCSE in English and mathematics.

West College Scotland

2024 Full Inspection Report
The following areas for improvement were identified and discussed with the senior managers:
  • There are several subject areas where learner retention and success rates are low and require improvement
  • Teaching staff are overly reliant on prompting from curriculum and quality leaders (CQLs) regarding learner personal learning support plans (PLSP) information. In a few cases this has resulted in staff being unaware of individual learner needs and therefore not able to make the necessary adjustments.
  • Arrangements for the systematic review of learning and teaching are not sufficiently consistent. It is unclear how the college wide development of learning and teaching is progressing.
  • College managers and the SA have been unable to recruit and retain an appropriate number of sabbatical officers. This has impacted on opportunities for social activities, campaigns, and the sharing of responsibilities across a wider group of officers.
  • Learner participation in the Student Satisfaction and Engagement Survey is very low, at 26.9% for FE and 18.9% for HE.
  • Most learners are not aware of the role and purpose of the SA
Main points for action
  • The college should continue to address low rates of learner attainment in part-time FE and full-time HE provision.
  • Senior managers should ensure the plans for the improved support for the Students Association are delivered and monitored.

West Hertfordshire College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase the proportion of installation and maintenance electrician apprentices who complete their apprenticeship and achieve merit and distinction grades in their final assessments.
  • Continue to improve how teachers prepare learners for external examinations on vocational and GCSE mathematics courses.

West Lancashire College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Provide learners on vocational programmes with high-quality and relevant work experience on those courses where this is not yet in place.
  • Identify and implement actions to increase the proportion of learners who complete their courses at West Lancashire and on A-level courses at Newcastle Sixth Form College.
  • Ensure that staff take full account of EHC plan outcomes to identify the best way to support learners with high needs on vocational courses.
  • Provide effective support for apprentices on all programmes to develop their use and knowledge of English and mathematics.

West London College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve learners’ attendance and punctuality on the courses where it is too low.
  • On ESOL courses, adapt teaching and checking of learners’ understanding so learners with lower English language skills learn how to use the new vocabulary taught.
  • Implement strategies to help young learners understand and meet the expectations for their behaviour and conduct.
  • Set meaningful targets for learners with high needs, linked to their EHC plans, and accurately monitor learners’ progress towards achieving their targets.

West London Institute of Technology - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve learners’ attendance and punctuality on the courses where it is too low.
  • On ESOL courses, adapt teaching and checking of learners’ understanding so learners with lower English language skills learn how to use the new vocabulary taught.
  • Implement strategies to help young learners understand and meet the expectations for their behaviour and conduct.
  • Set meaningful targets for learners with high needs, linked to their EHC plans, and accurately monitor learners’ progress towards achieving their targets.

West Lothian College

2024 Full Inspection Report
The following areas for improvement were identified and discussed with the senior managers:
  • The rate of successful completion for one full-time FE subject group declined from 85% to 51.70% which is 6.5% below the sector norm.
  • There is no consistent approach to the tracking and monitoring of meta skills within college programmes. This is limiting learner awareness of the importance of these skills and their ability to identify and promote them to prospective employers.

West Nottinghamshire College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure plans for apprentices’ on-and-off-the-job learning are used consistently to inform practice and consolidation activity.
  • Leaders should continue their work to stabilise the electrical curriculum and provide tailored support for the teaching team.
  • Leaders should ensure all teachers set learners demanding work that helps them achieve high work standards over time.
  • Leaders should ensure all teachers use assessment effectively, so learners retain their learning over time, and know what they need to do to improve their work and skills further.

West of England Institute of Technology - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the college need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that the actions taken by leaders to improve the quality of education and training programmes, including those provided by subcontractors, lead to rapid improvements.
  • Ensure that all learners and apprentices, including those studying with subcontractors, receive high-quality feedback, and are set challenging targets that enable them to continually improve the standard of their work.
  • Ensure that all adult learners and apprentices study a high-quality personal development curriculum.
  • Ensure that all learners aged 16 to 18, and learners with high needs, are supported effectively by staff to achieve high grades in their qualifications commensurate with their ability.

West Suffolk College - Outstanding

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

Leaders have a strong vision to promote social mobility through high-quality training, education and support. They actively seek to work with the most disadvantaged individuals and groups to ensure nobody is left behind. They are highly ambitious for their students and apprentices.

etc.

West Thames College - Outstanding

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

Leaders and managers have high expectations of learners and apprentices. They are ambitious for them to do well. They are determined and committed to ensure that learners and apprentices reach their potential and progress seamlessly to their next steps. Their relentless focus on quality improvement permeates through all levels of staff. Teachers and staff share this ambition and determination. They fully engage in and implement the rigorous quality standards set by leaders to ensure there is a consistent approach to high-quality teaching and assessment. This leads to consistently high achievement rates for young learners, adult learners and learners with high needs. Most learners and apprentices move on to the next level of course, higher education or employment.

etc.

Westminster Adult Education Service - Good

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 - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the college need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that the actions taken by leaders to improve the quality of education and training programmes, including those provided by subcontractors, lead to rapid improvements.
  • Ensure that all learners and apprentices, including those studying with subcontractors, receive high-quality feedback, and are set challenging targets that enable them to continually improve the standard of their work.
  • Ensure that all adult learners and apprentices study a high-quality personal development curriculum.
  • Ensure that all learners aged 16 to 18, and learners with high needs, are supported effectively by staff to achieve high grades in their qualifications commensurate with their ability.

Weymouth College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Provide all learners and apprentices with feedback that helps them to improve.
  • Ensure that the apprenticeship curriculum integrates on- and off-the-job training well so that all apprentices make good progress.

Wigan & Leigh College - Good

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 - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that all teachers check that students have fully understood content and provide consistently helpful feedback.
  • Improve attendance in subjects where it remains too low.
  • Maintain the strong emphasis on improving achievement outcomes for students studying GCSE mathematics.

William Morris Sixth Form College - Good

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.

Wiltshire College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the quality of the curriculum, work placements and specialist support for learners with high needs.
  • Ensure that young learners attend their English and mathematics lessons and ensure that the actions taken lead to greater achievement in these qualifications.
  • Make sure that all learners and apprentices receive coherently planned and well-taught personal development as part of their curriculum, including effective careers guidance for all adult learners and learners with high needs.
  • Involve employers more comprehensively in the design and implementation of all curriculums.

Windsor 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.

Winstanley College - Outstanding

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Leaders and teachers are aspirational for what their students can achieve. They have designed highly ambitious curriculums that prepare students very effectively for their next steps in education or employment. Leaders inspire students to fulfil their potential by engendering a steadfast commitment and passion for their studies.

etc.

Wirral Metropolitan College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Increase the number of students and apprentices who remain on programme and achieve their qualifications.
  • Improve attendance and punctuality, notably for students on education programmes for young people.
  • Ensure that students and apprentices receive routinely planned careers information, advice and guidance.
  • Improve the planning of the curriculum for ESOL and hairdressing students.
  • Improve the quality of teaching in classroom-based sessions.
  • Ensure students and apprentices receive helpful feedback.
  • Ensure that all adult care apprentices routinely receive sufficient protected time to study and complete their work.
  • Strengthen quality assurance and improvement procedures.

Report Recommendations

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