Centre Approval
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Become a Centre
policies in these areas to enable your Centre Approval application to progress. Finance You must ensure sufficient budget to gain and maintain Agored Cymru centre status and all associated accreditation costs. If you are accessing fu... Go to page
Centres
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Service Standards
within 5 working days of receipt of Centre Approval fees and quality assurance approval Process submitted registrations within 10 working days of receipt of correctly submitted learner registrations On receipt of a correctly submitt... Go to page
Terms and Conditions
must be used within 12 months of their Centre Approval date. Additional Information for Standardisation Events To address the need for representation from a variety of centres and to ensure that centres who are required to attend a sta... Go to page
2021 - 2022
charges for members Fee Notes Centre Approval for new centres 800.00 A non-refundable standard fee is charged for the Centre Approval process. 270 will be invoiced at the start of the approval process with the remainin... Go to page
2022 - 2023
charges for members Fee Notes Centre Approval for new centres 270.00 530.00 A non-refundable fee of 270 will be invoiced at the start of the Centre Approval process. 530 is invoiced upon final approval. Add... Go to page
News
Celebrating Success at Agored Cymru’s Annual General Meeting and Centre Conference
The event was well attended by representatives from education and training providers across Wales, which featured the annual up date of financial accounts, highlights of the year and the vision for 2019. The AGM also included a spec... Go to news item
Centre Conference and AGM
You would have recently have received an Agenda for the upcoming Centre Conference incorporating the Agored Cymru Annual General meeting on the 27th November. I would like to draw your attention to Agenda item 5, Special Resolution: to ... 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
The Inspire! Tutor Awards are open for nominations!
The Inspire! Tutor Awards are co-ordinated by the Learning and Work Institue in partnership with Welsh Government and supported by NTFW, Colleges Wales, National Centre for learning Welsh, Universities Wales, Adult Learning Partnership ... Go to news item
Former College Vice Principal and Awarding Body Director Awarded MBE
Katy Burns, Agored Cymru Board Director, has been honoured for her services to post- 16 education and adult community learning in Wales. With over 30 years in post-16 education Katy started her career in Further Education at Coleg G... Go to news item
Dyslexia diagnosis is life changing for Higher Apprentice Melanie
A dyslexia diagnosis was the start of an amazing learning journey that has seen Melanie Davis achieve a Higher Apprenticeship in Employment Related Services and improve the contribution she makes at work. Melanie, 56, from Betws-y-C... Go to news item
Documents
Centre Approval Policy and Procedure
Qualification Approval Policy and Procedure
EQA3 - EQA feedback to centre 2021-22
Centre Assessment Standards Scrutiny (CASS) Policy
Centre Adaptation Submission Document
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
Down to Earth
One of our approved centres, that we are incredibly proud to be working with, is Down to Earth. Down to Earth is an innovative social enterprise tackling social inequality and climate change - one sustainable project at a time! Since openin... Go to case study