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Assessment Process Step 1. Planning assessment The assessor develops an assessment plan detailing how each unit or qualification will be assessed. The internal verifier reviews and agrees the assessment plan to ensure that it is... 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

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

Work Related Education The skills and knowledge gained will allow learners to further their aspirations for employment, help them to manage their own career and ultimately develop a tool kit of transferable skills and attributes that wi... Go to page

Access to Higher Education Diploma – Humanities and Social Sciences

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The last time the Agored Cymru team spoke to learner Emma Hughes was in 2023, after she won the Agored Cymru Learner of the Year Award for Outstanding Commitment to Study. Now in 2025, we caught up with Emma to hear all about her experience... Go to case study

On 12 April 2021 the national Access to Higher Education student awards were held in memory of Keith Fletcher to recognise the outstanding commitment to study and academic achievement from a field of excellent candidate... Go to case study

“I still can't quite believe I won!” ~~ Kelly Osborne, a Grwp Llandrillo Menai - Coleg Meirion Dwyfor, student has been awarded this year’s Agored Cymru Learner of the Year Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement as well as the national... 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

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

When Emily Heffernan first walked through the doors of her local youth centre at just 10 years old, she had no idea it would lay the groundwork for her future career. Now, having completed both her Agored Cymru Level 2 and Level 3 Youth Wor... Go to case study