ofsted
RATED ‘GOOD’ WITH ‘OUTSTANDING’ FEATURES – 2018
Andover College has been praised by Ofsted as high expectations lead to an increasing “proportion of students gaining high grades at A Level” and college leaders having “successfully improved the quality of the student experience and student outcomes”
The report reaffirmed an unblemished track record of equipping students with the best teaching, facilities and industry links to enable them to achieve their goals at college and beyond.
In a strong endorsement of the college’s approach and achievement the inspectors noted that, since their last inspection in 2014: “leaders, managers and governors have continued to provide a consistent good quality of education for students” adding that the college had gone from strength to strength across the board having “successfully improved the quality of the student experience and student outcomes” with “improved achievements for students on 16 to 19 programmes, for the majority of adult learners and for those apprentices on programmes directly delivered by your staff.”
What Ofsted said…
- “Students experience good teaching and develop good, sometimes outstanding practical and technical skills”
- “Teachers have high expectations of their students. As a result, students work to industry standards“
- “The College has developed highly specialised and individual programmes for each student”
- “Comprehensive and high-quality careers advice and guidance help students to make well-informed decisions”
- “Assessors and teachers encourage apprentices to consider the ways they can apply new skills to their workplaces“
- “Considerable investment including the Technology and Future Skills Centre which greatly enhances the students’ experience”
