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Post-16 provision carries high stakes for young people and real financial weight for schools. Making sure it is strong, well-designed, and delivering good outcomes deserves proper, expert scrutiny.
We review post-16 and sixth-form provision, evaluating curriculum, outcomes, and study programmes, so you know your provision is serving your students well.
What Is a Post-16 Review?
It is an independent review of your post-16 or sixth-form provision. We look at the curriculum offer, the quality of teaching, study programmes, outcomes, and the wider experience, and how well it all prepares young people for what comes next.
You get an honest evaluation and clear priorities for a phase where the stakes for students are high.
Who Is a Post-16 Review For?
It is for schools and colleges with sixth-form or post-16 provision wanting to check its strength, improve outcomes, or prepare for inspection. It suits post-16 leaders and heads who want an expert, honest external view of the phase.
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What Does a Post-16 Review Include?
- Review of the post-16 curriculum and offer
- Evaluation of teaching quality in the phase
- Review of study programmes and their design
- Analysis of outcomes and destinations
- A look at the wider post-16 experience
- Conversations with post-16 leaders and students
- A clear report with prioritised next steps
How Does a Post-16 Review Help Your School, Academy, Trust, or Setting?
1
Check the offer is right
The curriculum offer shapes everything post-16. We evaluate whether yours genuinely fits your students and their futures.
2
Evaluate teaching honestly
Post-16 teaching has its own demands. We look at quality in the phase specifically, not by assumption from the rest of the school.
3
Get study programmes right
Study programmes are more than qualifications. We check yours are well-designed and genuinely developmental.
4
Understand outcomes and destinations
Outcomes and where students go next are the real test. We analyse both, so you know how well the phase delivers.
5
Improve where it counts
We show you exactly where to focus, so your improvement effort lifts the phase where it matters most.
6
Prepare for inspection
Post-16 is inspected in its own right. Our review makes sure the phase and its leaders are ready.
7
Support your leaders
We give post-16 leaders clear, honest feedback and back their case for what the phase needs to thrive.
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How a Post-16 Review Works
- 1We agree the focus and arrange the visit.
- 2We review the curriculum offer and study programmes.
- 3We evaluate teaching and analyse outcomes and destinations.
- 4We talk with post-16 leaders and students.
- 5We report honestly, with prioritised next steps.
What You Get at the End
- An honest evaluation of your post-16 provision
- A clear view of curriculum, teaching, and study programmes
- Insight into outcomes and destinations
- Prioritised priorities for the phase
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Key Features of Our Service
Post-16 specialists
Our reviewers understand the specific demands of the sixth-form phase.
Outcomes-aware
We look at results and destinations, the real measure of the phase.
Framework-aligned
We evaluate against how post-16 is actually inspected.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only in education and understand the particular pressures and stakes of post-16 provision. Our review gives you an honest, expert evaluation of your sixth form — its curriculum, teaching, and outcomes — and clear priorities to make sure it serves every young person well.
Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to us about your post-16 provision.
- We agree the focus and carry out the review.
- Contact us today to strengthen your sixth form.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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