East Surrey College

Overview: East Surrey College is a good college that provides a range of vocational, further and higher education courses. Learners and apprentices enjoy studying at the college and feel well supported by staff. The college makes a strong contribution to meeting skills needs, working closely with employers and other colleges to design curriculums that fill skills gaps.

Strengths:

• Learners and apprentices enjoy studying at the college and feel well supported by staff.

• Staff use their subject and teaching expertise well to plan interesting activities that learners find stimulating.

• The college makes a strong contribution to meeting skills needs, working closely with employers and other colleges to design curriculums that fill skills gaps.

• Learners and apprentices develop substantial new knowledge and skills through their courses.

• The college has a strong and effective oversight of the quality of education taught by subcontractors.

Areas to improve:

• Improve the teaching on the foundation learning programmes so all learners with high needs make the progress they are capable of.

• Provide learners and apprentices with feedback that helps them know what they need to do to improve.

• Increase the proportion of 16- to 18-year-old learners on level 1 courses who stay until the end and achieve their qualifications.

• Increase the proportion of adult and 16- to 18-year-old learners who achieve at least a grade 4 in GCSE English and/or mathematics.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.