Pembrokeshire College

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Pembrokeshire College is a further education college with a campus in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in Wales and around 40 outreach centres across the county. A further campus, the Marine and Information Technology Centre (MITEC) in Milford Haven offers courses in marine engineering.

The college provides full and part-time vocational education for students aged 14 – 19 and a variety of courses and activities for adults. The total number of enrolled students in full and part-time education is about 8,500. The college also offers students access to higher education programs including degrees, HNDs and HNCs mainly validated by the University of South Wales, NVQs and other accredited programmes in training and business, as well as the Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification. Certain courses, including the Princes Trust courses and subjects such as IT, Basic Skills and Welsh for Adults. are funded by the Welsh Assembly Government.

Its web site is http://www.pembrokeshire.ac.uk/

Bilingual college

At Pembrokeshire College, both Welsh and English languages are used. The college has a Welsh language scheme fostering the equal treatment of English and Welsh, a pdf detailing which is available here: http://www.pembrokeshire.ac.uk/college/policies

e-learning

Distance learning

Pembrokeshire offers a number of courses at a distance online, through its own Learn Online website (http://online.pembrokeshire.ac.uk/index.php) and learndirect.

Online learning for on-campus students

The college has a Learning Resource Centre offering access to online resources to students (http://www.pembrokeshire.ac.uk/college/facilities).

Open Educational Resources (OER)

No evidence of OERs found.

VLE

Moodle is the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) at Pembrokeshire College.

For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembrokeshire_College

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