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Inspection Report Recommendations

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Christ the King Sixth Form College

2017 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Improve the proportion of learners who achieve high grades in A-level subjects by:
    • ensuring that when teachers review learners’ progress against their target grades, they make clear to learners precisely the skills and knowledge they need to further improve on to make good progress
    • ensuring that when teachers monitor learners’ progress in lessons, they focus carefully on the extent to which learners improve incrementally their subject knowledge and understanding
    • ensuring that teachers set work in lessons that is suitably complex, especially on second-year academic programmes.
  • Leaders and managers need to ensure that learners make good progress in developing the mathematical skills, knowledge and technical language they need to achieve at least a grade C in GCSE examinations.
  • Leaders and managers need to evaluate the quality of provision more accurately across all subjects, and implement action plans that have precise and measurable success criteria, in order to eradicate the remaining areas of underperformance.

Cirencester College

2018 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Leaders and managers should improve teaching, learning and assessment by ensuring that teachers:
    • plan learning that supports students who are least able and challenges those most able.
    • check students’ knowledge and understanding effectively before moving on to new learning
    • ensure that students capture and record their learning to help their future progress
    • share more widely the best practice that exists within the college.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that all A-level students who plan to move into employment or apprenticeships undertake a relevant external work placement.
  • Leaders and managers should ensure that teachers and assessors enable students on level 2 vocational courses and intermediate apprentices to make good progress and complete their programmes within planned timescales.

City College Norwich

2021 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Teachers must ensure that students develop good English skills. Teachers need to ensure that students produce written work of a high quality.
  • Leaders need to ensure that teachers place sufficient emphasis on ESOL students developing good spoken English so they can express their views clearly and assimilate into their community effectively.
  • Leaders need to ensure that apprentices receive good, impartial careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG) to enable them to progress to their next steps and understand the breadth of career opportunities open to them.

City College Peterborough

2011 Full Inspection Report
What does Peterborough City Council need to do to improve further?
  • Improve outcomes for apprentices by setting challenging targets for learners and monitoring them closely to ensure that qualifications are completed within the planned timescale.
  • Raise the standards of teaching and learning from good to outstanding by extending the coaching and mentoring arrangements to include all tutors.

City College Plymouth

2012 Full Inspection Report
What does the provider need to do to improve?
  • Develop a more rigorous approach to observing lessons and sharing best practice so that the proportion of outstanding lessons increases.
  • Secure consistently rigorous standards in lesson observations, performance management and self-assessment through strengthening moderation and validation processes and sharing best practice.
  • Develop challenging targets for the minority of under-performing courses and share good practice from courses where improvements in learners’ progress have been made to ensure all learners make the expected progress.
  • Use the outcomes from initial assessment to inform lesson planning so that all learners meet or exceed their potential.
  • Better plan the deployment of learning support assistants in lessons so that all learners derive the maximum benefit from the support.  Provide sufficient opportunities for all learners to develop their English and mathematical skills to a higher level.
  • Provide governors with more detailed reporting and the training support needed to enable them to monitor learners’ outcomes and the quality of teaching and learning more rigorously.

Report Recommendations

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