A university has made one of its deans the chief executive of its apprenticeship training provider following an ‘inadequate’ Ofsted rating over safeguarding concerns, staffing disruption and poor off-the-job training.
Alliance Learning opened as a training provider 40 years ago and joined the University of Bolton group in 2020. Today it was judged ‘requires improvement’ in all areas except leadership and management, where Ofsted gave it the lowest ‘inadequate’ rating and resulted in an overall grade four.
The provider, inspected in February, had previously been rated ‘good’ but inspectors found standards had declined since its last short inspection in May 2017.
Between the inspection in February and the publication of the report, Alliance appointed Dr Gill Waugh as its new chief executive, dean of the university’s faculty of professional studies and head of the school of education and psychology.
