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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

Employability As an organisation we pride ourselves on creating quality, industry led qualifications and rewarding achievement. Everything we produce is designed to benefit the learner, individually, socially and economically. We believ... Go to page

Resilience Skills Co-ordinating Personal and Social Education (PSE) In relation to PSE, WRE and YPP, Agored Cymru: Delivers lessons as part of a wider school programme including supporting collapsed timetable days. The delivery ... Go to page

Vision, Mission and Values Vision To promote lifelong learning in Wales. Mission Statement Agored Cymru is a charitable trust and social enterprise which works in partnership to promote learning, widen opportunity and enable p... Go to page

Learner Privacy Statement What personal data does Agored Cymru collect about you? The minimum we need to collect in order to process yourachievements and produce your certificates is: Name Post code Date of Birth Unique Learner... Go to page

Centres Our qualifications are widely recognised, valued and respected by the education sector, training providers and employers. We offer over 6,000 units and 400 nationally recognised, quality assured, accredited qualifications ra... Go to page

consists of four curriculumareas: Personal and Social Education (PSE) Work Related Education (WRE) Young Peoples Participation (YPP) Wales, Europe and the World (WEW) Daf Baker, Curriculum Development Manager, sai... 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

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 Life developments and... 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

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

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

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

In partnership with Creative & Cultural Skills, Agored Cymru, the awarding body of choice for education and training providers in Wales, has developed the first of their kind higher level qualifications for the Craft, Design and Cultural H... Go to case study

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

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

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

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