Bristol's University of the West of England has received top marks from Ofsted for provision of further education (FE) teacher training.

The most recent report assessing training for FE teachers rates UWE as grade 1 or very good. This means that the university has received top grades for all teacher training provision at primary, secondary and FE levels.

UWE has worked in close partnership with five colleges: City of Bath College, Filton College, Gloucestershire College, Hartpury College and Stroud College.

The report identified a range of key strengths including very strong programme management, strong and highly-productive partnerships and very good resources to support learning, teaching and research.

Areas assessed include the effectiveness of provision, key strengths, the achievements of trainees, the quality of training and the management and quality assurance of provision.

The inspection report said: "Trainees make very good progress throughout their training. Through highly effective tutoring and mentoring arrangements, trainees develop and apply specialist teaching skills very well.

"Trainees benefit from well qualified and highly skilled trainers who facilitate very good sessions, with strong links between theory and practice and recent research. As a result of very strong programme management, the quality of training is consistent and coherent across the partnership."

Dr Richard Eke, deputy head of the School of Education, said: "This is fantastic news for the School of Education and testament to the hard work put in by the programme leaders and teaching staff here at UWE. We do have brilliant facilities and excellent partnerships that enable us to give FE and other education students top notch training and it's gratifying to see that this has been recognised by Ofsted."

For more information about teacher training at UWE go to http://www.uwe.ac.uk/education/