Quality

Merthyr Tydfil College holds the Basic Skills Quality Mark for its Basic Skills, ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), Family Learning and Learning Support provision.

The Quality Mark is intended to provide a framework for raising standards of English language, literacy and numeracy among adults.

In order to obtain the Quality Mark, the college had to meet certain criteria, most of which focussed on what anyone joining a basic skills programme should expect to get:

· a negotiated learning plan for each learner,
· the use of a variety of teaching methods,
· well qualified staff,
· nationally recognised qualifications for students and the use of
appropriate teaching and learning material to improve basic skills.

The college also had to devise a strategy, including an action plan, to improve standards of basic skills and to meet the basic skills needs of the area served by the programmes.