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Unit Review It ensures that all unit content is current, relevant and fit for purpose. The Process The review process consists of three phases: Consultation Phase Evaluation Phase Publication of Results Units have b... Go to page

Choosing the right units and qualifications Start your Learning Journey with Agored Cymru Units and Qualifications We offer over 6,000 units and 300 qualifications in subjects including Essential Skills, Health Care, River Restora... 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

ESOL English for Speakers of Other Languages Our units focus on the skills required at all levels, accommodating learners from widely different educational backgrounds who may need to develop their speaking, listening, reading and writi... Go to page

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

Accessibility ReachDeck Listen to this website with ReachDeck Whether you are using a Smartphone, Tablet, PC or Mac, ReachDeck will provide the speech and reading support tools you require for free. What is ReachDeck? ReachDeck Plu... Go to page

In 2016-17 over 1755 adult learners in Wales enrolled onto an Agored Cymru Access to Higher Education Diploma, a national qualification recognised by all universities in Wales as equivalent to three A Levels. The Diploma is specifically... Go to news item

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

Karly has overcome significant barriers in her life to go on to successfully complete the Access to Higher Education Diploma (Social Care) at Gower College Swansea, and she has since progressed onto higher education, with the goal of be... Go to news item

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

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

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

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

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

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

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