"The quality of teaching and assessment is good.  Teachers are often very well qualified and have excellent subject knowledge. They have positive relationships with their students, especially in their tutor groups. They use a wide range of resources imaginatively, although students are expected to provide their own text books for some courses.  Lessons are generally planned with care and are prepared well, through the published texts for courses and excellent, very well focused course work-books produced by individual teachers.  Lessons run at a good pace and teachers often ask good, open questions that challenge students' thinking skills as well as their language skills."