The Isle of Wight council’s Adult Community Learning service recently received an monitoring visit from Ofsted.
The report has been released today (Monday) and finds the service has improved from a previous rating of ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’.
The inspection found the service was good because,
- Tutors are supportive, and have high expectations of their learners.
- Learners gain useful skills, improve their self-confidence and gain their qualifications.
- Learning sessions for parents are consistently good and enable them to have confidence in their English and mathematics skills.
- The service has developed a highly effective programme of community learning projects that are purposeful and productive for older learners, learners with learning difficulties and those recovering from drug misuse.
- The service has developed good collaborative partnerships especially with schools.
- Very effective, well planned and implemented strategies are in place to improve adults’ historically low English and mathematics achievement on the island.
- The efforts to improve the quality of learning sessions have been successful.
Where improvements can be made
Before the service can achieve an Outstanding status, some improvements are needed. Ofsted reported the service is not yet outstanding because
- Not all tutors set effective learning goals and targets.
- There is currently insufficient management capacity to sustain further improvements.
Well done to all involved in the jump from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’.
Full details can be found in the report embedded below. Click on the full screen icon to see larger version.
