Agored Cymru Essential Skills Wales
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Become a Centre
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 charges. Step 2 Sign i... Go to page
Essential Skills Wales
Essential Skills Wales Essential Skills Wales and Wider Key Skillshave mergedto formone suite of Essential Skills qualifications at levels ranging from Entry 1 to Level 3. Agored Cymru is one of a small number of Awarding Bodiesable... Go to page
Essential Skills for Learners
Essential Skills for Learners Agored Cymru continues to meet the needs of all learners by offering the full suite of Essential Skills Wales Qualifications. Essential Application of Number Skills (EAoNS) Essential Communication Skil... Go to page
Qualifications and Accreditation
Qualifications and Accreditation The Learning Core Qualifications Our Learning Core qualifications are built around the Curriculum for Wales reforms and we will continue to evolve with these emerging developments. Agored Cymru is commit... Go to page
Apprenticeships
Apprenticeships Qualifications that can be used for apprenticeships are endorsed by the relevant skills sector council. They are mapped to its national occupational standards. Each qualification meets the requirements of size and spe... Go to page
Data, IT and Digital Economy
Data, IT and Digital Economy The demand for employees with the skills to collate, interpret and understand data is growing. Businesses that successfully interpret their data will gain an edge over their competitors. Our qualifications w... Go to page
News
Effective Personal and Social Education prepares young people for the demands of the 21st century workplace
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
Agored Cymru - Leading the way in IT qualification development in Wales
As the only awarding body in Wales offering these innovative and specialist qualifications inWelshandEnglish,Agored Cymru is at the forefront of this constantly developing sector. Our new suite of IT qualifications will contribute to th... Go to news item
We at Agored Cymru are putting schools at the heart of learning in Wales
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
Agored Cymru Access to HE Learner Achieves National Recognition
Nominations across the UK were scrutinised by a panel of judges from each participating Access Validating Agency (AVA) and a winner and runner-up chosen in each category. Victor Morgan, Access Manger at Agored Cymru said: I am delig... Go to news item
A FAB Hat trick for Agored Cymru
Agored Cymru has been shortlisted for a record three awards this year for the prestigious national FAB 2018 Awards. Now in its fourth year, the FAB Awards recognises the contributions made by awarding organisations and their employe... Go to news item
Agored Cymru Manager is Finalist at Prestigious Industry Awards
Now in its fourth year, the FAB Awards recognises the contributions made by awarding organisations and their employees to education and skills in the UK over the past year. Kevern Kerswell, Chief Executive of Agored Cymru: I am deli... Go to news item
Documents
Agored Cymru Access to Higher Education Learner of the year award 2014-15
Agored Cymru’s Annual Access to HE Conference 2016
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Agored Cymru Access to Higher Education Learner of the Year Award 2016
At Agored Cymru we are aware that Access to HE learners have faced or are facing significant barriers to their educational achievement. They are often studying while undertaking caring responsibilities and/or working and therefore frequently suffer considerable financial hardship as a result of their decision to return to education.
Case Studies
Mum of three, Caroline Read, turned her life around after enrolling on an Access to Higher Education nursing course
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
Access to HE provides father-of-two the opportunity to pursue a career in nursing
After leaving school at 13, with no qualifications, Jamie Maidment's life spiralled out of control. Jamie had suffered from mental health and substance abuse issues.... Go to case study
Access to HE student now a Lecturer of Health Science at his Former College
Lecturer, Andrew Walker, left University in London where he was studying Film and Theatre. He returned home to North Wales questioning his next steps.... Go to case study
Mature Student from Swansea Proves Determination and Hard Work Really Does Pay off
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
17-year-old Cory was on track to get a handful of GCSEs at his comprehensive school when an accident and time off school meant he fell behind.
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
Former Access to Higher Education Learner Achieves First-class Honours Degree in Midwifery
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