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...from the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) and the Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI) in their first joint annual report on post-16 education and training in England.
Most sports, leisure and travel courses in colleges are for full-time 16 to 18 year- old students, where the inspectors found students' achievements on advanced courses to be generally good. However, success on Level 1 and Level 2 courses is often weak, and performance on GNVQ intermediate and NVQ 2 courses is a particular cause for concern. Students on leisure courses, and those for the uniformed services, develop good practical skills and benefit from well-organised work experience. However, students on travel and tourism courses often do not develop sufficient vocational skills due to a lack of practical facilities, such as on-site travel offices, the report says.
Many students on sports, leisure and travel courses are supported in the transition to work through additional industry-specific qualifications. However, key skills are insufficiently developed and often not fully integrated within vocational programmes. The report points to the success of many colleges in attracting new students to further education by opening sports academies, often linked to local sporting associations such as football clubs. In work-based learning, the inspectors found that employers respond well to individual students' needs and help them to obtain...
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