Lancaster and Morecambe College

Overview: Lancaster and Morecambe College is a general further education college in Lancaster, Lancashire, providing education and training for post-16 learners and apprentices in various vocational and technical areas. The college has a strong focus on meeting local and regional skills needs, with a wide range of enrichment activities and a supportive culture.

Strengths:

• Learners and apprentices enjoy studying at the college, feeling well supported by staff who care about them.
• The college makes a strong contribution to meeting skills needs, with leaders engaging effectively with stakeholders and employers to understand local and regional skills needs.
• Teachers are well-qualified subject specialists, with relevant industry experience, and use their skills and experience effectively to plan and teach sessions.
• The college has effective strategies to reduce the number of apprentices who leave their programme early.
• Governors have experience and expertise from industry and education, providing scrutiny, challenge, and support to bring about improvements.

Areas to improve:

• Improve attendance for those learners who do not meet college expectations.
• Improve the planning and teaching of GCSE mathematics.
• Use the information about what learners already know and can do to plan learning and set appropriate targets for development.
• Use effective checks on learning to identify gaps in knowledge and skills accurately and provide useful feedback for learners and apprentices.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.