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Inspection Report Recommendations

Worcester Sixth Form College - Good

2012 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Increase the proportion of outstanding lessons through meeting the learning needs of all students and by improving their motivation. Ensure that all students are fully engaged in learning and progressing well.
  • Use the full range of information about students, including initial and course assessment, to plan activities, which meet their individual needs. Ensure that all students have the language, literacy, numeracy and personal skills to participate fully in planned activities to achieve their potential.
  • Monitor students’ progress and achievement consistently across the college so that staff identify promptly those at risk of non-completion or underachievement and provide the appropriate support or curriculum. Senior managers should support middle managers to ensure consistency in standards across all subject areas.
  • Research and identify the reasons for the underachievement of male students and put in place the appropriate measures to raise their achievement.
  • Share the good practice in teaching teams especially in engaging students in teaching and learning, the use of information learning technology and the virtual learning environment, and promotion of equality and diversity in lessons. Learn from best practice within the further education sector particularly in relation to the needs of students on vocational programmes.
  • Strengthen and implement fully the revised arrangements for management of the performance of staff including the observation of teaching and learning. Use data and information better to set targets for improvement, which are more challenging.

Workers' Educational Association - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Make sure that teaching is consistently good on ESOL programmes, leading to good outcomes for these learners.
  • Work closer with employers and stakeholders to make sure they are involved in designing and teaching the curriculum.

Working Men's College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve learners’ attendance and punctuality so that they are consistently high across courses.
  • Increase the range of opportunities learners have to develop their talents and interests outside of their courses.
  • Provide SEND training and development for staff who teach and support learners with additional needs.

Worthing College - Good

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve students’ attendance, particularly in GCSE English and mathematics.
  • Improve the proportion of students who make positive progress from their starting points in GCSE English and mathematics, and who achieve A-level qualifications.
  • Ensure young learners know how to keep themselves safe from the risk of radicalisation and extremism.

Wyggeston & Queen Elizabeth I College - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Make sure that teachers in all subject areas plan and organise their curriculums logically, so that students develop substantial new knowledge and skills.
  • Ensure that all teachers check carefully students’ knowledge of new topics.
  • Ensure that students benefit from links to employers and industry experts, and opportunities such as work experience, where relevant.

Wyke Sixth Form College - Outstanding

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve teaching, learning and assessment across all provision by ensuring that all teachers develop a wider range of learning strategies that fully engage students and promote their independent learning skills. Share the college’s best practice to develop all teachers’ skills and to raise standards of teaching, learning and assessment from good to outstanding.
  • Tackle the remaining underperformance in the few weaker subjects and in doing so increase the proportion of higher grades at GCE A level so that they exceed national benchmarks. Share the best practice within the college to allow more rapid improvement in these areas so that all students benefit from high-quality lessons that enable them to make the progress needed to achieve their potential.
  • Ensure quality assurance systems are applied consistently in all subject areas to tackle underperformance and enable high-quality delivery across all college provision. Make sure that the lesson observation system always indicates what teachers need to do to improve and is linked to both the appraisal process and staff training and development.
  • Provide further development opportunities to help teachers to promote equality and diversity successfully in their lessons so that students develop a wider and deeper understanding of these issues. Use the lesson observation system more effectively to monitor how this aspect of teaching and learning is being developed.

Xaverian College - Outstanding

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Leaders plan a highly ambitious curriculum that develops students and prepares them for aspirational destinations. They work closely with other GM providers to provide a Manchester-wide curriculum offer that meets the needs of their diverse and growing post-16 community of students. Leaders, managers and teachers provide a consistently high-quality education. They understand the important role they play in responding to social disadvantage and meeting the needs of students who aspire to progress to university.

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Yeovil College - Requires Improvement

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve rapidly the quality of programmes for learners with high needs.
  • Ensure that teachers and support staff in academic and vocational areas have the necessary skills and knowledge to support learners with high needs effectively.
  • Monitor improvement plans more effectively and ensure they have a positive impact on the quality of education.
  • Ensure that leaders have an effective oversight of the processes designed to maintain learner safety.
  • Make sure that governors receive sufficient timely information to hold college leaders to account.
  • Make sure that all learners have a secure knowledge of the signs and dangers associated with radicalisation.

York College - Good

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does York College need to do to improve further?
  • Take swift action to reverse the low success rates on foundation and intermediate qualifications in English and mathematics, so that students on those courses achieve to the same high standards as students in the rest of the college.
  • Improve the quality of the few lessons that require improvement by ensuring that tutors make better use of all of the available information about students to plan learning to meet individual needs.

Yorkshire & Humber Institute of Technology - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does York College need to do to improve further?
  • Take action to improve the quality of education in GCSE English and ensure that the proportion of learners who achieve a grade 4 or higher improves.
  • Ensure that feedback following assessments of learners’ and apprentices’ work makes it clear to them what they need to do to improve their work and make progress.
  • Ensure that the attendance of learners continues to improve, particularly where it remains low, such as on a few adult learning courses and on GCSE English and mathematics courses.
  • Take swift and effective action to deal with any further incidents of inappropriate behaviour of learners and ensure that all learners behave well and are respectful to their peers.

Report Recommendations

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