A college in Lewisham has failed to improve on inadequate standards in their latest Ofsted examination.

Teaching standards at Lewisham Southwark College (LeSoCo) were judged to be inadequate by Ofsted inspectors in January and the latest examination at the college has demonstrated insufficient improvement for learners.

Amongst many of the criticisms in the report were attendance and punctuality not being managed, with some classes only having around half the expected number of learners present.

The report stated that although most LeSoCo lessons are lively and motivated learners well, they were largely ineffective in developing students English and mathematics skills and understanding further.

Ioan Morgan, principal of LeSoCo, said: "No excuses, this is not good enough.

"We will have the college in better shape for its new principal and on a much more secure financial footing."

Mr Morgan took up the post in June and implemented a recovery plan, suspending the senior management structure in order to focus on academic and financial recovery.

Managers at the school introduced a strategy to place the monitoring and recording of learners' progress at the centre of course management and tutorials.

The college has worked hard to ensure that learners now benefit from sufficiently frequent group tutorials, but the quality of these requires improvement or is sometimes inadequate.

Inspectors also judged that the speed of progress to improve the quality of English and Mathematics has slowed since the time of the previous visit in May.

People taking GCSEs at the college are then not made aware of the options for progression at the college, meaning that students taking GCSEs rarely move on to Apprenticeships at LeSoCo.

Too few apprentices are achieving their qualifications and completing programmes within the expected time, which has been a problem at the college since the first inspection in January.

The number of apprentices who achieve and complete their programmes successfully are increasing slowly, as are the numbers that within their expected timescale, but these remain too low.

Mr Morgan said: "Impact from our new systems will be seen in improved learner performance in this academic year when new data is available resulting from improved teaching and learning.

"The bottom line is that this is a long haul recovery."