A university technical college in Bolton with a turbulent history has been issued a funding termination warning notice over concerns about the “inadequate standard of education”.
The Department for Education published the notice this morning addressed to board members and trustees of the multi-academy trust Quest, over concerns raised at its University Collegiate School, formerly known as Bolton UTC.
It follows a damning Ofsted report published in February in which inspectors rated the 11 to 18 school ‘inadequate’ in all areas – a fall from its ‘good’ rating in 2019 but the second time in its past it was lumped with the watchdog’s bottom judgement.
The warning notice said leaders, trustees and members of the local advisory committee have “overseen an inadequate standard of education for all pupils, including students in the sixth form,” and had “not demonstrated the capacity to tackle these considerable weaknesses”.
