Coleg Gwent, South East Wales

The college has six sites; Ebbw Vale, Crosskeys, Newport, Pontypool, Usk and Abergavenny, all in Gwent, south east Wales

A group of students taking the CACHE Certificate in Childcare and Education at Ebbw Vale campus have been following the Welsh Bac Intermediate Diploma and, some of these students will continue with the CACHE Diploma in September 2004. The students studied Welsh for their Language Module, which they say will help them get jobs in Welsh medium nursery schools. They also linked with a school in Ghana.

As well as maintaining the CACHE group at Ebbw Vale and planning new CACHE groups at Newport and Pontypool , there are plans to expand the Welsh Bac across the following programme areas in Crosskeys and Newport; Intermediate GNVQ in Business, City and Guilds e-Qualifications, AS level Humanities, Intermediate GNVQ in ICT, National Diploma in Business and National Diploma in Sport and Leisure. Four of the six Coleg Gwent campuses are now piloting the Welsh Bac.

The delivery team at Ebbw Vale has successfully integrated the requirements of the Welsh Bac Core into the CACHE programme and the College will be drawing on their experience to replicate this strategy across other programme areas.