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Coleg Harlech WEA 1st college to gain the Wales TUC Quality Award

The Wales TUC Cymru has a very long and firmly established relationship with the Workers Education Association and with Coleg Harlech. It was therefore particularly pleased to receive an application for the Quality Award from that merged association and Coleg Harlech WEA is the first learning provider in north Wales to receive the Quality Award.

In mid and in north Wales, the Workplace Learning Department in partnership with Unions has taken learning and training into the public sector and private sector firms that have almost daily contact with our lives. Kellogs, Grampian Foods and Tesco. Anglesey Aluminium, hospitals, fire brigades, the tax office and, when you holiday in north Wales, (and you can’t get much higher than this) the Snowden Mountain Railway.

The ethos of widening participation and reaching out to hard to reach and non traditional learners, such as older males, ethnic minority groups, shift workers and part time workers is something that the union movement and Coleg Harlech WEA both share.

The Workplace Learning Department has an outstanding record in taking learning to these groups of workers in their own workplace.

For the Quality Award the comments from regional union officials who supported the application, verified that tutors were supportive, friendly and that confidence building was a key factor on each course.

One education officer commented that, “They (the WEA) have a really strong commitment to learning.” One of several examples given was of how a tutor had gone to considerable lengths in time and effort, even calling in favours, with no personal advantage to help out a union officer, because the final outcome was of benefit to the learners.

The Workplace Learning Department at Coleg Harlech, overcome the many obstacles and the barriers that there clearly are, to take learning out into the everyday lives of our union members. That strong commitment, that belief in the accessibility to learning, to education, to training, for all adults, has remarkable benefits for individuals, for their families and for our communities.