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Inspection Report Recommendations

Brockenhurst College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Continue to improve students’ attendance and punctuality, especially for those on GCSE courses and level 1 vocational study programmes, by taking effective action when students are absent or late to their lessons.
  • Managers and trainer/assessors must improve target-setting and progress reviews for apprentices to ensure that more apprentices complete their programme within the planned period.
  • Leaders should swiftly identify the reasons for the consistently poor performance of students on some level 3 vocational study programmes and take urgent corrective action.

Bromley Adult Education College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Improve the small amount of teaching, learning and assessment that is not of a high standard, by ensuring that teachers use a sufficient range of assessment strategies to assess learners’ understanding and their progress over time accurately.
  • Ensure that leaders and managers collect and analyse a wider range of information and data, such as learners’ next steps on completion of their programmes, the reasons for the low participation of male learners and the impact of programmes on those that LBB specifically seeks to help.
  • Use this information to further strengthen the positive impact BAEC has on the adult learners of Bromley, in particular to:
    • understand how learners’ current programme choices influence the programmes they choose in future
    • understand fully the impact of careers advice and guidance on the lives of adult users
    • inform the planning of the curriculum to continue to make best use of available funding.

Brooke House Sixth Form College

2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and tutors should ensure that students’ attendance and punctuality improve so that all students make better progress.
  • Senior leaders should ensure that they continue to make progress in their training of staff to ensure that improvements in how teachers plan and assess the curriculum are embedded in all subjects.

Brooklands College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should support vocational staff to monitor more closely students’ attendance in the English and mathematics areas of their study programmes. Staff must ensure that students understand the importance of these classes and the important employment skills they bring.
  • Apprenticeship managers should improve the monitoring of apprentices’ progress in sub-contracted provision, so interventions can be made to ensure that a greater number make good progress and complete their courses within the expected time. Managers must also make sure that all employers in subcontracted provision give apprentices sufficient off-the-job training time to work on theoretical aspects of their programmes.
  • Refresh information technology hardware so that all students, apprentices and teachers can use good quality up-to-date resources that reflect sector expectations.
  • Ensure that all staff benefit from a constructive development programme that allows them to update their vocational and/or industry and pedagogical skills and to identify and share good practice.
  • Improve management information systems so that college leaders and managers can make fully informed decisions about the performance of provision and about students’ attendance.

Buckinghamshire Adult Learning

2015 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that self-assessment reports and observation of teaching, learning and assessment records are much less descriptive and much more judgemental about the impact of teaching, learning and assessment on learners.
  • Use detailed initial assessments to plan and set targets effectively and monitor progress for all learners. Ensure that all learners can pursue their own interests within subjects and achieve levels of knowledge and/or skills that are over and above course aims.
  • Develop effective methods to measure accurately the impact of learning on learners’ destinations and progress; evaluate more fully the extent and usefulness of learners’ development of personal, social and employment skills so that managers can make clear judgements about the effectiveness of the service and plan to make further improvements.
  • Ensure that all learners are made fully aware of courses available with other providers so that they may continue their studies after progressing through levels of learning at BCCAL. Improve the availability of careers advice and guidance so that all learners can benefit from timely access and impartial advice.

Buckinghamshire College Group

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Through staff training, the work of advanced practitioners, and the better sharing of good practice, ensure that a higher proportion of lessons are more interesting, and include a proper emphasis on improving students’ skills in the use of English during lessons and in their written work.
  • Develop teachers’ understanding of how to challenge the more able students to achieve high grades and exceed the grades expected of them, for example through additional activities during lessons, and setting targets in tutorials related to the achievement of high grades.
  • Provide more work experience across a wider range of vocational subjects and ensure all students adhere to professional standards of conduct to prepare them for future work.
  • Identify more clearly the college-wide areas of under performance, and draft improvement plans so that actions at all levels are specific, with clear success measures that relate to student performance.
  • Monitor the performance of different groups of students more closely throughout the year, in order to implement actions more quickly to ensure that all students perform at an equally high level.

Building Crafts College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Teachers should integrate work placements fully into programmes for young learners so that they reinforce what they learn at college and develop suitable behaviours for working on site.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that teachers know how to teach English and mathematics in such a way that learners are able to apply what they know and what they can do to their vocational subjects.
  • Leaders and managers should put in place staff development and training that help tutors develop their skills as teachers, in particular to teach the theoretical components of courses.
  • Governors should improve their oversight of the programmes so that they are aware of the quality of training. They should provide firmer support and challenge to hold leaders and managers to account for any drop in standards.
  • Leaders and managers should help young learners develop the behaviours they need for study and work. This includes improving their attendance at college.

Burnley College

2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that they improve the consistency of quality of education that students and apprentices receive so they all make good progress from their starting points irrespective of which programme they study.
  • Leaders should ensure that all tutors and trainers provide helpful feedback so that students and apprentices know what they have done well and how they can further improve their work.
  • Leaders should continue to take prompt action to improve the attendance of students who are absent from their lessons too frequently.
  • Leaders should ensure that all trainers plan the on- and off-the-job training in a well-considered way so that apprentices are able to apply what they learn in theory sessions in their jobs.
  • Leaders should ensure that all new staff benefit from an effective induction and mentoring from an experienced tutor so they can develop their professional practice further.

Burton & South Derbyshire College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Managers should improve teaching, learning and assessment in English and mathematics to ensure that learners and apprentices develop these skills successfully, achieve their qualifications and are able to apply them well in the workplace.
  • Managers should develop sufficient high-quality work experience and supported internship opportunities for all learners with high needs to ensure that they are able to acquire essential skills for future employment and independent living.
  • Teachers should use information on learners’ starting points more effectively to set challenging work that matches closely to learners’ individual needs so that they are able to achieve at the level of which they are capable.
  • Teachers should provide learners with useful feedback that helps them to recognise what they need to do to improve and achieve their challenging targets.
  • Managers should ensure that teachers are skilled in preparing learners for assessment and examinations.
  • Governors and leaders should ensure that they continue to monitor and improve poorly performing courses so that all learners and apprentices are able to achieve their qualifications and progress to their chosen destinations.

Bury College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • To improve further the quality of teaching, learning and assessment by ensuring that all teachers and learning and skills coaches (LSCs):
    • use the results of assessments completed at the start of students’ and apprentices’ programmes to set aspirational targets and plan learning activities that result in students and apprentices making good progress in their studies and achieving the grades of which they are capable
    • provide all students and apprentices with helpful feedback on their work that helps them to improve. Teachers should identify where students and apprentices need to enhance their work and provide specific guidance on how they could make improvements.
  • Improve attendance rates so they are at least in line with college targets and ensure that students, particularly those on 16 to 19 study programmes, attend lessons punctually.
  • Improve the rate of progress that AS- and A-level students make in their studies to at least match that of vocational students on 16 to 19 study programmes.
  • Increase the proportion of apprentices that complete their apprenticeship on time.

Buxton & Leek College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Ensure that all staff in all subject areas adopt initiatives to improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment so that the quality of lessons becomes more consistent.
  • Place renewed focus on attendance at English and mathematics lessons for learners in all provision types. In particular, managers should review the timetabling of these subjects for study programmes, so that students are more likely to attend.
  • Develop mechanisms for reporting data in aggregated and summarised formats so that managers are able to quickly identify patterns and trends and intervene more effectively when problems arise.

Cadbury Sixth Form College

2014 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Continue to raise the standards of classroom practice so that more students benefit from outstanding teaching and learning that challenges and stretches all of them.
  • Identify the reasons for the relatively weaker performance on long courses for students and apprentices aged 16 to 18 and take effective actions to help them improve further.
  • Implement actions to ensure that teachers’ written feedback on students’ marked work is more detailed and constructive, to help students understand how they can improve further.
  • Develop further links with external partners to support more students on study programmes to improve their employability skills through the provision of work placements or work experience.

Calderdale College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that managers set and review precise performance objectives for all teachers so that teachers are held to account closely for the progress that their learners make and the outcomes that they achieve.
  • Increase the proportion of learners achieving high grades in GCSE mathematics by ensuring that teachers of mathematics provide learning that challenges learners to make rapid progress.
  • Ensure that staff make full use of the college’s attendance policies and procedures to improve the attendance of learners on all courses to at least the college target.

Callywith College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Governors, leaders and managers have a clear and ambitious vision for the college. They have developed a curriculum which raises the aspirations and achievements of its students and improves the life chances of young people living in one of the poorest regions in the UK. Since the opening of Callywith College in September 2017, leaders, managers and staff have worked tirelessly to create a culture of high expectations for all. Their dedicated focus on relentlessly providing a wide range of carefully designed academic and vocational learning programmes, and high-quality teaching, assessment and support is highly successful. As a result of everyone’s combined efforts, almost all students who join the college stay on their programmes. They go on to make good or outstanding progress towards their curriculum and personal goals and achieve their qualifications.

Cambridge Regional College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders need to ensure that part-time courses for adults are meaningful. They need to develop a more ambitious curriculum that enables more adults to progress to higher level study or gain employment.
  • Leaders must ensure that young people on full-time level 2 programmes study qualifications that enable them to progress to higher level study more rapidly. Teachers need to carefully assess students’ skills and knowledge on entry to ensure that courses are sufficiently challenging.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that more apprentices pass their courses. Teachers need to be more ambitious in planning learning programmes that take account of apprentices’ current skills and knowledge to help them to quickly develop more advanced skills.
  • Leaders and managers must improve the quality of education for students, adult learners and apprentices studying English and mathematics. Teachers need to ensure that students’ attendance to these classes improves significantly. They need to ensure that adults recall and apply their learning and make sure that more students achieve their qualifications.
  • Leaders need to ensure that adults and apprentices receive impartial careers advice and guidance to help them plan their next steps.
  • Leaders need to ensure that all students who need learning support receive timely and effective help to enable them to develop their skills and knowledge more rapidly.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that students who require access to physiotherapy and occupational therapy receive this help promptly.

Capel Manor College

2013 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that more students complete their courses successfully, especially those in horticulture and landscaping.
  • Strengthen its approaches to evaluating the quality of teaching and learning so that areas for improvement are more clearly identified, and ensure that the outcomes of these systems contribute more fully to performance management.
  • Develop more effective use of information and learning technology (ILT) to support learning by ensuring that all students have access to suitably programmed computers and that all teachers make good use of the college’s virtual learning environment.
  • Improve the use of data regarding students’ performance at all levels to ensure that challenging targets for improvement are set and achieved.
  • Fully implement the computer-based attendance monitoring system across all provision to improve the efficient monitoring of students’ attendance at lessons, and use this important performance indicator more fully to evaluate the quality of provision.

Cardiff & Vale College

2019 Full Inspection Report
Recommendations
  1. Improve learners’ main qualification outcomes
  2. Improve the quality of teaching so that every teacher engages and challenges all learners to achieve their full potential
  3. Ensure that all learners develop their literacy and numeracy skills and achieve relevant qualifications
  4. Strengthen self-evaluation practices to inform planning for improvement

Carlisle College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Governors should finalise the reforms to the structure of governance and local boards and ensure that they provide more effective challenge and support to NCG and divisional leaders.
  • Leaders should improve the quality of training on apprenticeship programmes and increase the proportion of apprentices who achieve their qualifications by:
    • ensuring that all apprentices receive an appropriate amount of off-the-job training
    • ensuring that all apprentices are on programmes where they will learn new skills
    • setting targets and actions for apprentices so that they are clear about what knowledge and skills they need to acquire.
  • Leaders should take action to increase the proportion of learners who attend and are on time for lessons.
  • Leaders should implement more precise actions to bring about improvements to learners’ experiences and outcomes and ensure that they monitor the impact of these actions more closely.
  • Teachers should provide more challenging learning activities to learners, particularly those on study programmes, so that a higher proportion make good progress relative to their prior attainment.
  • Teachers should develop learners’ skills in English and mathematics further so that a higher proportion of learners achieve GCSE and functional skills qualifications in these subjects.
  • Staff should increase the proportion of learners who attend external work placements as part of their preparation for employment, particularly at Newcastle College.

Carmel College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve teaching and learning in the few subjects that are underperforming to ensure that students reach their potential.
  • Improve the quality of the setting and recording of targets for students with high needs on courses at level 1 or below so that they make the progress expected of them.

Central Bedfordshire College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers need to work with teachers and learners to reverse the decline in learners’ achievements and ensure that learners and apprentices are successful in achieving their qualifications within the allocated time.
  • Improve teaching, learning and assessment by:
    • raising teachers’ expectations of what all learners can achieve
    • ensuring that teachers plan challenging and interesting work, both in lessons and for independent study, which broadens learners’ knowledge and deepens their understanding
    • ensuring that teachers use detailed information about their learners’ existing skills and abilities to monitor learners’ progress rigorously and to set clear and meaningful targets for improvement
    • making sure all teachers provide learners with effective and timely feedback which enables them to improve the standard of their work and their use of English and mathematics.
  • As a matter of urgency, ensure that all learners attend their lessons regularly.
  • Increase the number of governors who are involved in the oversight of the quality of provision and ensure that they hold leaders to account by their scrutiny of achievement and progress data.

Cheadle College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • As a matter of utmost urgency, governors, leaders and managers should make swift improvements to the standard of apprenticeships. They should increase the proportion of apprentices who achieve their programme on time. They should do this by:
    • ensuring that all apprentices receive a rigorous assessment at the start of their apprenticeship to identify what they already know and can do; assessors should use information from this assessment to ensure that apprentices develop substantial new knowledge, skills and behaviours
    • ensuring that all apprentices receive their entitlement to well-planned, high-quality off the-job training and ensure that apprentices make good progress on their programme
    • identifying the specific aspects of the programme that need to be improved and meticulously monitoring the impact of changes that they make so that the quality of training that apprentices receive improves swiftly.
  • Governors should hold senior leaders stringently to account for the performance of the apprenticeship programme.
  • Managers should ensure that assessors provide useful feedback on students’ and apprentices’ work to improve the standard of their work.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that they accurately evaluate and act effectively to improve the quality of the provision for students with high needs and apprenticeships.

Chelmsford College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Strengthen provision for teaching English and mathematics so that learners and apprentices improve the standard of their English skills and more learners achieve well and gain the high grades of which they are capable.
  • Ensure that work-based tutors work effectively with apprentices aged 16 to 18 in order for them to complete their programmes within their expected timescales.
  • Ensure that all learners, particularly adults, have a good understanding of the dangers from extremist groups and possible radicalisation.

Cheshire College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders need to review urgently the quality of education that learners with high needs receive through their subcontractor partner. They need to put in place actions to bring about rapid improvement so that learners with high needs achieve to the best of their abilities.
  • Leaders and managers need to review the level 2 health and social care curriculum at the Crewe campus to ensure that it meets the needs of learners who aspire to a career in childcare.

Chesterfield College

2019 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all young learners receive high-quality training which would help them achieve their qualifications and career aspirations.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all learners with high needs receive high-quality training through better coordination of vocational and specialist support staff using appropriate adaptive technologies.
  • Leaders and managers should work with staff who teach in underperforming areas, such as construction, A levels and art and design, so that they make rapid progress and improve achievement rates.
  • Teachers should provide high-quality developmental feedback to help learners and apprentices improve their written work.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all learners and apprentices receive clear, relevant and impartial careers guidance to help them with their future options.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all learners receive high-quality and relevant work experience to support their next steps.
  • Leaders and managers need to ensure that all learners understand how to contextualise the dangers of radicalisation and extremism within their daily lives and their workplace environment.

Chichester College

2020 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider do well and what does it need to do better?

Governors, leaders and staff have high expectations of all learners and apprentices. They help them achieve their goals and become responsible members of both the college and wider community. Leaders have created an outstanding culture of inclusivity and respect. Consequently, learners develop an understanding of different groups in wider society. Teachers inspire learners to fully commit to their studies and, as a result, they develop the skills, knowledge and behaviours they need to be successful. Learners and apprentices benefit from the considerable range of options that enable them to follow the most appropriate programmes for their future aspirations.

Report Recommendations

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