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Young People’s Participation Young peoples participation is expressed through Article 12 of the UNCRC stating that children and young people are at the heart of all decision-making that affects them. The YPP qualifications equip you... Go to page

Essential Skills for Practitioners The Level 3 Certificates for Essential Skills Practitioners - Numeracy, Literacy, Digital Literacy and ESOL qualifications give practitioners the knowledge and practical skills required to assess, plan... Go to page

Work Related Education The qualifications meet the different themes of the CWW: personal achievement; seeking information; understanding the world of work; guidance; and making and implementing decisions. The qualifications enable l... Go to page

Personal and Social Education The qualifications meet the five different themes within the framework: active citizenship health and emotional well-being moral and spiritual development preparing for lifelong learning sustaina... Go to page

Wales, Europe and the World Our Window on Wales qualifications support the Welsh Governments Wales, Europe and the World: a framework for 14 to 19-year-old learners in Wales. The qualifications support young peoples learning across ... Go to page

History Agored Cymru has an impressive pedigree in the development of Access to Higher Education courses, the Open College Network (OCN) Movement and credit in Wales. From the first 18 students to gain credits in Clwyd in 1990, over 6... Go to page

The Learning Core qualification suite consists of four curriculumareas: Personal and Social Education (PSE) Work Related Education (WRE) Young Peoples Participation (YPP) Wales, Europe and the World (WEW) Daf B... Go to news item

Many schools deliver excellent PSE. One of the reasons for its perceived lack of prominence is that for many years PSE is expressed through the basic curriculum and is a non-statutory curriculum area. However, recent reports from wo... Go to news item

There are gaps in the provision currently, based around personal and social education (PSE), including the delivery of the newly titled, relationships and sexuality education (RSE). The Welsh Government, through its Curriculum for L... Go to news item

Piloted across Wales this year, with a view to an expansion to other parts of the UK in the future, the scheme seeks to empower young people to make a meaningful contribution both to health and well-being in Wales, and to society in gen... Go to news item

The Access to Higher Education Diploma is an alternative to A-Levels and recognised by all universities and other higher education providers in England and Wales. It is designed to help people who want to go onto higher education but wh... Go to news item

Katy Burns, Agored Cymru Board Director, has been honoured for her services to post- 16 education and adult community learning in Wales. With over 30 years in post-16 education Katy started her career in Further Education at Coleg G... Go to news item

Following many years of severe abuse and neglect, the loss of both her parents and time spent in care, single mum of one, Karly Jenkins from Llanelli decided to rewrite her future and return to education.... Go to case study

By Year 11, 17-year-old Cory’s attendance rates were poor and meant he did not achieve the GCSE grades he needed. “I was accepted onto a Level 2 course to do sport in college, and was chosen to play rugby for the college academy” he explain... Go to case study

Mother of two and former Body Shop manager, Julia Fivash-Henderson from North Wales, graduated from Bangor University with a first-class honours degree in Midwifery after successfully gaining an Access to Higher Education Diploma in health ... Go to case study

33-year-old mother-of-three, Vicki Brooke (née Gooden) from Swansea, found the confidence and determination to go back to college to pursue her dream of becoming a midwife... Go to case study

After leaving school at 15 with no qualifications and an ingrained belief that she was ‘stupid and would never amount to anything’, single mother of 5, Lauretta Hughes, defied the odds to become the Agored Cymru’s annual Access to Higher Ed... Go to case study

After becoming a mum at a young age Caroline Read from South Wales, found herself suffering from depression and failing to find any ambition.... Go to case study