Ofsted Inspection

Mid-Cheshire College is "outstanding"

Staff and students at Mid-Cheshire College are celebrating after Ofsted acknowledged the College as an "outstanding" educational institution. In early November, a team of five inspectors spent a week at the College, visiting classes, talking to staff and students and meeting with employers, community organisations and local schools. Their overall judgment is that Mid-Cheshire is now a Grade 1 college.

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Grades awarded

Ofsted also made a number of additional judgments about the strength of the College:

Key strengths

• High success rates
• Highly-motivated and well-behaved learners
• Improved and very successful delivery of Key Skills
• Excellent additional learning support
• Outstanding response to local needs
• Outstanding social and educational inclusion
• Highly-effective leadership and management
• Successful measures to improve student performance

Areas for improvement

• Low success rates on apprenticeships
• Inconsistent measures to improve teaching and learning