Middlesbrough College

Overview

Middlesbrough College is a large further education provider delivering high-quality education for young people, adults, and apprentices. The inspection highlights a "highly welcoming, inclusive and supportive" environment where learners benefit from strong personal development and effective careers guidance.

Strengths

• Staff promote a "positive culture of respect and care," helping learners build confidence and feel safe from discrimination.
• The curriculum is "ambitious and current," designed in close collaboration with employers to meet local skills needs and fill sector gaps.
• Adult learners, apprentices, and those with high needs receive "very high quality teaching and training" in well-resourced, industry-standard facilities.
• Learners demonstrate "high levels of commitment" to social action projects, fostering citizenship and community pride.
• Leaders maintain "effective arrangements" to monitor quality, with rigorous processes significantly improving apprenticeship provision since the last inspection.

Areas to improve

• Leaders must ensure a "continued focus on CPD relating to teaching" for education programmes for young people to match the high standards experienced by adult learners and apprentices.
• In a few instances within young people’s programmes, spelling and grammatical errors go uncorrected, causing some learners to repeat mistakes.

Safeguarding

The report states that "the arrangements for safeguarding are effective."