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Exploring Worldviews The qualification supports both current and new, key educational policy areas of the Welsh Government relating to Religious Education (RE) and Religion, Values and Ethics (RVE). This includes the National Exemplar F... Go to page

Learning in the Outdoors The qualifications support the aspiration for an active, healthy and inclusive Wales, where learning in the outdoors provides a common platform for participation, fun, achievement and employment, increasing the ... Go to page

Essential Skills for Work and Life Essential Skills for Work and Life (ESfWL) ESFWL offers an alternative for those learners only needing to focus on specific aspects of their essential skills. This suite of qualifications ranges from E... Go to page

Internal Quality Assurance Robust, effectiveinternal quality assurance ensures that all learners are assessed fairly and consistently to the specified standard. Internal quality assurance checks that the assessment process (i.e. fr... Go to page

History The movement engaged with over 5 million adults and initiated the birth of over 30 distinct organisations: later known as the Open College Network. The first Network was set up in Manchester in 1981. Less than ten years late... 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

Reforming for the Future, The Benefits of the Agored Cymru Learning Core to Your Learners, How the Learning Core Can Boost Your Capped 9 Score. Read the full newsletter:Cymraeg|English

'Ready Already' for the New Curriculum in Wales - Summer Newsletter 2024

From 1st September 2024, Agored Cymru has a regulatory duty to provide a mechanism for all centres to record and submit data on Learner language preference. This relates to all qualifications and all regulated units. Agored Cymru ha... Go to news item

Judith Archer, Head of Product Development at Agored Cymru, said: Agored Cymru are really pleased to have been able to work with Esports Wales on this qualification development, linking digital skills and business with recreation. This ... Go to news item

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

Paige, a 16-year-old pupil at Morriston Comprehensive School in Swansea is doing a mix of GCSEs, Welsh Baccalaureate, Hairdressing and qualifications in Hospitality and Health and Social Care. ... 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

South Wales local authority, Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) has developed a pioneering approach using Agored Cymru units and qualifications to implement the Welsh Government's Youth Engagement and Progression Framework, Implementation Plan and Nat... 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