Ofsted watch: 10 providers achieve ‘good’ results | FE Week

Ten FE providers were awarded grade twos from Ofsted in a good week for the sector, as Yasemin Craggs Mersinogl, Reporter at FE Week reports.

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However, the college for HS2 and an independent learner provider were both hit with ‘inadequate’ ratings.

IT Skills Management Company Limited was one of the independent learner providers to receive a grade two after its first inspection by the education watchdog.

It has a partnership with Microsoft through which it delivers its apprenticeships within the digital sector using a variety of online teaching tools blended with more traditional delivery methods.

Inspectors found the 290 apprentices on roll “rapidly develop new skills and knowledge” and “benefit from the relationship the provider builds with their employer”...

All of its 500 learners are employed adults who attend lessons twice a week. The inspectorate reported that they enjoy how teachers bring lessons to life by drawing on their experience in the care sector.
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Source: FE Week