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Inspection Report Recommendations

Brinsbury 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.


Broadstairs College - Outstanding

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

Leaders and governors are passionate about tackling social inequality through education and training. They rightly pride themselves in offering a range of inclusive, accessible and challenging learning opportunities to the communities in East Kent.

etc.


Brockenhurst College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the quality of teachers’ developmental feedback on a minority of courses so that learners know how to improve their work and achieve the standards of which they are capable.
  • Continue to ensure that all apprentices achieve their qualifications successfully and in a timely manner.
  • Ensure that all adult learners are aware of the additional enrichment activities available to them through the college so that they benefit from opportunities to further develop their personal and social interests.


Bromley Adult Education College - Good

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.


Brooklands College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • The quality of teaching, and learners’ attendance, in GCSE mathematics to ensure all learners achieve this qualification successfully.
  • The quality of teachers’ questioning skills to ensure all learners fully participate in lessons and consolidate their learning.
  • Ensure all adult learners and apprentices have opportunities to develop their personal and social interests and behaviours.


Buckinghamshire Adult Learning - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
  • Make sure that a higher proportion of young learners access opportunities to develop their wider interests and talents.
  • Make sure apprentices receive rapid support to stay or get back on track.


Buckinghamshire College Group - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Identify what young learners know and can do when they start their course, and address gaps in their knowledge and skills as they learn in a small minority of subjects.
  • Set targets for apprentices that specifically identify the knowledge, skills and behaviours they need to develop.
  • Provide ongoing training for learners and apprentices so they know how to keep themselves safe from the risks of radicalisation and extremism.


Building Crafts College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that tutors consistently provide learners and apprentices with feedback that helps them improve their written work.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that young people’s attendance is high.


Burnley College - Requires Improvement

2025 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Strengthen the governing board with those with experience of the further education and skills sector.
  • Strengthen the systems and processes that leaders and governors use to ensure accurate qualification and achievement data are recorded and reported.
  • Provide consistently effective checks on learning to identify gaps in learners’ and apprentices’ knowledge and skills to inform teaching.
  • Provide high-quality developmental feedback so that learners and apprentices know precisely what they need to do to improve their work.
  • Improve the attendance for those learners who do not attend often enough.


Burton & South Derbyshire College - Outstanding

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

Leading by example, the chief executive, senior leadership team and governors have worked with strength and determination to enable learners and apprentices, including those on subcontracted provision, to be successful in all aspects of their learning and personal development. Leaders and governors have created a high performing culture which brings out the best in everyone, where staff feel valued and morale is high. Leaders have a clear sense of purpose in meeting the educational and skills needs of the communities and industry-related sectors that the college seeks to serve.

etc.


Bury College - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that they prioritise support for those apprentices who have not completed their apprenticeships on time, to help them to swiftly catch up and complete their apprenticeships and subsequently be able to move on to the next stages of their careers.
  • Leaders should continue to strengthen the initial advice and guidance they give to apprentices so that they clearly understand the academic expectations and that of the end-point assessments.
  • Leaders should swiftly put in place robust progress measures for their young learners with high needs on the New Horizons programme to ensure that they know the accurate progress learners are making towards their education and healthcare plan targets, so that these young learners make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that learners and apprentices attend their classes frequently so that they remain on their courses and achieve their qualifications.


Cadbury Sixth Form College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all apprenticeship programmes include a clearly defined curriculum, appropriate structure and enough well-planned tuition to enable all apprentices to develop a suitable range of skills and knowledge to the required level.
  • Managers should review the small number of courses in which the curriculum is not ambitious enough so that course content and teaching are challenging for all learners.
  • Managers should ensure that all courses provide enough opportunities for learners to revisit topics they have previously studied so that they can practise their skills and strengthen their recall of information.
  • Managers should ensure that all learners’ work is marked promptly. They should ensure that all staff understand and apply the principles of effective feedback.


Calderdale College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Ensure that all training officers maintain effective contact with apprentices’ employers and provide apprentices with frequent and helpful reviews.
  • Ensure that all students with high needs in specialist provision develop the skills that they need to make rapid progress.


Callywith College - Outstanding

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 - Good

2023 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Managers should ensure that learning support mentors in supported learning use their skills appropriately to support students who need it. Staff need to gauge accurately when they should intervene to provide support so that students can make good progress.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that students attend their English and mathematics lessons frequently and that they arrive at their lessons on time.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that teachers and assessor trainers correct students’ and apprentices’ spelling, punctuation and grammar consistently so that students and apprentices develop high level English skills to prepare them appropriately for future employment.
  • Leaders and managers should take appropriate action to ensure that apprentices recruited on apprenticeship programmes remain on their apprenticeship and gain their qualifications.


Canterbury College - Outstanding

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

Leaders and governors are passionate about tackling social inequality through education and training. They rightly pride themselves in offering a range of inclusive, accessible and challenging learning opportunities to the communities in East Kent.

etc.


Capel Manor College - Requires Improvement

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that teachers and assessors set challenging curriculums for students and apprentices so that they develop new skills and knowledge swiftly, make good progress and gain their qualifications.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that students and apprentices attend their lessons, including English and mathematics lessons, frequently so that they benefit from high-quality teaching.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that teachers and assessors provide students and apprentices with helpful feedback on their work so that they understand what they do well and what they need to do to improve.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that teachers and assessors are well trained so that they can use appropriate teaching strategies and provide effective support for students and apprentices with high needs, including monitoring progress against targets from students’ education, health and care plans.
  • Leaders and managers must ensure that students and apprentices develop their English and mathematics knowledge and that those students and apprentices who require qualifications in English and mathematics are prepared well for their examinations.

Capital City College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Teachers should ensure that learners and apprentices on all programmes receive feedback about their work which helps them identify the areas they need to improve.
  • Leaders should ensure that learners taking vocational qualifications at level 2 and level 3 receive sufficient support to help them prepare for and pass their examinations.
  • Leaders should ensure that the proportion of apprentices who achieve their programme increases.
  • Leaders should ensure that all apprentices and adult learners benefit from the same detailed information young learners receive around impartial careers advice and guidance, how to maintain a healthy lifestyle and improving their understanding of the importance of fundamental British values.
  • Leaders should ensure that learners and apprentices improve their understanding of the dangers associated with people with extreme views.


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


Cardinal Newman College - Outstanding

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

Leaders provide an ambitious, focused and high-quality curriculum offer. They provide a range of mostly level 3 courses to meet the needs of a diverse range of young people in the local area. This includes a broad variety of A level and vocational programmes to provide progression to university, apprenticeships or employment. Leaders provide a highly effective foundation learning programme for young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) that helps them to achieve in line with their peers and prepares them for their next steps in independence, further training or employment.

etc.


Carlisle 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.


Carmel College - Outstanding

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

Leaders design an inclusive, broad and highly ambitious curriculum that affords students, including those with high needs, the opportunity to maximise their potential and to support their progression to aspirational destinations. They make sure that the curriculum offer widens participation and promotes social mobility for students without compromising on their high expectations.

etc.


Chelmsford College - Good

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 - Good

2024 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Strengthen quality assurance and improvement processes for apprenticeships to ensure that all apprentices make the progress of which they are capable.
  • Improve the use of starting points for adult learners and apprentices so that they develop their knowledge, skills and behaviours swiftly.
  • Strengthen the personal development curriculum for apprentices and ESOL learners.


Chesterfield College - Good

2022 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders should ensure that young people attend their GCSE English and mathematics classes well. They should support teachers to provide consistent feedback on students’ written work to help them achieve high grades.
  • Leaders and managers should support the few teachers who do not use lesson time as well as they could do to develop their approaches to planning and assessment.
  • Leaders should ensure that all students on entry-level pathway courses benefit from appropriate work-related activities.
  • Leaders should support teachers to better develop adults’ understanding and awareness of British values and how they impact on their daily lives.


Chichester 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.

Report Recommendations