A troubled adult residential college that was forced into a last-minute merger with a university last year is set to be hit with an ‘inadequate’ rating from Ofsted, FE Week can reveal.
Ruskin College will be downgraded from ‘good’ in a report due to be published next week by the education watchdog.
FE Week understands leadership and management will bring the college’s grade tumbling down after inspectors found poor safeguarding processes, including incomplete disclosure and barring service checks on staff.
It will become the only “institute for adult learning” – as classified by Ofsted – to hold the lowest possible grade.
