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Sectors

Strategic Actions

Schools / LEA

To improve participation, retention and achievement across all sectors of post-16 provision by:

• Actively participating in local consortia of providers.
• Improving the range of provision
• Enhanced emphasis on target setting and high quality teaching and learning in schools sixth forms.

To raise Key Stage 4 achievement and minimize student disengagement, as already set out in the EDP, by a range of measures including:

• Enhanced data systems and target setting.
• Targeting LEA support to schools at risk of poor inspection outcomes..
• Targeting students at risk of underachievement or disengagement.
• Implementing behaviour and attendance strategies
• Curriculum innovations such as enhanced ICT and increased vocational options via school links with FE and providers of vocational education.

Further Education

To improve participation, retention and achievement post-16 by:

• Participating in the consortia outlined above
• Auditing the need for additional FE presence in growth areas of Oxfordshire.
• Improving use of individual learning plans and student target setting,
• Addressing any poor teaching identified in inspections or monitoring.
• Addressing student retention issues via a range of strategies.
• Working with the LEA and LLSC better to accommodate young people with learning difficulties or disabilities.
• Working with schools and pupil referral units to accommodate young people at risk of disengagement from the education process.

Work based Learning

To improve participation, retention and achievement post-16 by:

• Actively participating in the consortia outlined above particularly addressing the logistics of securing the right of all students to proper access to high quality information about the various WBL options.
• Researching employer involvement in, and understanding of, modern apprenticeships with a view to increasing both.
• Carrying out Sector by sector research into impediments to successful completion of MAs and developing strategies to overcome these impediments.
• Improved key skills outcomes both by marketing their importance to employers and young people and by seeking to improve the quality of key skills teaching.