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Made for Wales: Wave 3

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Made for Wales: Wave 1 & 2

Reforming Level 3 Tourism

Reforming AS/A Level in Welsh

Geography A-Level Review in Wales

Business A-Level Review in Wales

Essential Skills Wales

Supporting you with Wave 3 Qualifications

We are developing a comprehensive support package to support both teachers and learners with our new range of qualifications for first teaching in September 2027.

This will include free expert-led professional learning opportunities and an unparalleled suite of free high-quality digital resources.

Professional Learning

WJEC will offer a range of free professional learning opportunities for our VCSE, General Foundation, Work Related Foundation, Personal Project and Skills Suite qualifications.

These opportunities have been developed in response to feedback from centres across Wales and will include on-demand materials you can access at any time, as well as termly live online subject fora.

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Digital Resources

Our Digital Resources Team are currently developing a range of free bilingual online materials in support of our upcoming qualifications.

We will publish these new resources in phases beginning from late autumn 2026, and the full suite will be available by summer 2027.

All teaching resources will be editable, enabling users to adapt them to suit a wide range of teaching approaches. They will include:

VCSE