Governance

Agored Cymru is a charity and company limited by guarantee. It is a membership organisation that expresses its mission and ethos through a shared learner-centred approach. All organisations that have become Agored Cymru recognised centres have an entitlement to become an Agored Cymru member.

Membership of Agored Cymru

The benefits membership brings to Agored Cymru are:

• the enhancement of each recognised centre’s relationship with Agored Cymru;
• an appropriate way to express Agored Cymru’s mission and ethos and to achieve a shared learner-centred focus;
• facilitation of easy access to data, information and training that that supports quality improvement
• provides opportunities for centres to participate in events and networks for the development of the curriculum or for policy related matters
• a route for members to elect a certain number of places to the Board to maintain good understanding and communication.

The Board of Directors

The Board of Directors are responsible for setting the strategic direction of the organisation and for ensuring that it meets all its responsibilities to staff, member organisations, wider stakeholders and external agencies.

The Board of Directors is made up of

• 60% appointed members to bring externality to decison making
  
• 40% elected by member organisations
  

The Chair of the Board is Peter James and there is currently a vacancy for the Vice Chair.

The Board is supported in its work by 3 committees:

• Quality, Standards and Regulation Committee
  
• Finance and General Purposes Commitee
• Access to HE Commitee

Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting provides an opportunity for member organsiations and wider stakeholders to gain a greater understanding of the work of the Board and its committees and to contribute to the development of strategy.

The minutes of the AGM held on 9 February 2010 will be available shortly. The notes from the discussion groups held in the afternoon are available below.

Slides for group A
Notes from group A
Notes from group B
Notes from group C

Vacancies on the Board and Access to HE Committee are advertised on the web site.