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Become an Essential Skills Wales Centre Seven steps to adding Agored Cymru Essential Skills Wales Qualifications to your framework. Step 1 Contact ourBusiness Development teamto discuss the options available to you and our charg... Go to page

Access to Higher Education As a licenced Access Validating Agency (AVA) based in Wales we develop, quality assure and award the Access to HE Diploma through our providers in Wales and beyond. The Level 3 Access to HE Diploma is a na... Go to page

Multiply Who is eligible? The funding is available to learners who: are 19 years and over have not achieved a GCSE in maths at grade C (or equivalent). What can be used as accreditation to support the Multiply project? ... Go to page

Agored Cymru Access to Higher Education Learner of the Year Awards Often, Access to Higher Education learners have overcome major challenges in their life to gain qualifications and fulfil their aspirations of going onto higher educatio... Go to page

Final Awards Board An Agored Cymru representative chairs Final Awards Boards to ensure that due process is followed. The Final Award Board will ensure that each learner has met the relevant rules of combination and the credit and gr... Go to page

Centres Our qualifications are widely recognised, valued and respected by the education sector, training providers and employers. We offer over 6,000 units and 400 nationally recognised, quality assured, accredited qualifications ra... Go to page

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

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

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

Lorna Hughes didn’t always want to be a nurse. In fact, she read Languages at University and went on to work as a translator for many years. But, after becoming a mother and caring for her father, Lorna realised that there was something els... Go to case study

Originally from Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, Shokhan Hasan moved to the UK in August 2010 to get married. As an Anaesthetic Nurse in Kurdistan, Shokhan moved to Cardiff. Speaking only Kurdish, Shokhan was determined to learn English initially,... Go to case study