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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

Units and Qualifications We continue to invest heavily in developing and strengthening our range of qualifications and units to ensure that we are at the forefront of responding to the evolving needs of the labour market, national agend... Go to page

Diploma Approval Access to Higher Education centres are required to seek approval from Agored Cymru when they intend to deliver an all Wales Access to Higher Education Diploma that they have not previously offered. This also applies whe... 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

Learners We develop units and qualifications that recognise learners achievements. Agored Cymru Unitsand Qualifications We have more than 6,000 units and 400 qualifications, in a range of subjects from Essential Skills to Clinical ... 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

Its one of the reasons why hes excited about the new National 14-16 Skills Suite for Wales. These qualifications put real-world learning at the heart of the classroom. Whether its managing money, building digital skills, looking after w... Go to news item

In this edition: New and Emerging Qualifications Developments inCommunity Wellbeing,Clinical Imaging and Radiation Sciences,Dietetic Support,Speech Language Therapy Support, andTrade Union Learning Representatives. Operational Dea... Go to news item

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

“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

Emma Hughes, a Coleg y Cymoedd student, has been awarded this year’s Agored Cymru Learner of the Year Award for Outstanding Commitment to Study. Our Learner of the Year awards celebrate the achievements of individuals who have completed Acc... 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

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