5/9/11
Canterbury Tertiary College places to treble
Young Cantabrians will have more opportunities than ever to start training for their careers while also completing
secondary school after Minster of Education Anne Tolley announced today that Canterbury Tertiary College (CTC) places
will treble next year.
CPIT, as the leading provider of CTC, currently has 148 places for secondary school age young adults at the Sullivan
Avenue campus studying a range of trades such as carpentry, electrical engineering and automotive. This capacity will be
expanded to provide more subjects and places for 550 students next year. The expanded portfolio of programmes will be
provided in partnership with Aoraki Polytechnic, Tai Poutini Polytechnic, Southern Institute of Technology and Lincoln
University.
“This is an exciting collaboration of the vocational providers in Canterbury to ensure that students stay at school to
complete a minimum of Level 2 NCEA studies while also beginning their pathways towards a vocational qualification,” CTC
Director Fiona Haynes said. “We are very pleased with the minister’s announcement and the opportunity to take a model
that we at CPIT have found to be very successful and extend it into other local institutes.”
Provision of the programmes will be organised to meet with schools’ needs with most taking place either on three
afternoons a week or for two full days. In some cases the delivery will take place on a school site where that is shown
to be the best way to enable students’ full access to this new initiative.
As well as providing cost-effective opportunities for young people, the CTC training and education initiative responds
to the need for an expanded workforce that will be required to help rebuild Christchurch in the coming years.
CTC programmes likely to be offered in 2012 include Carpentry, Automotive, Electrical, Engineering, Pre Health,
Engineering, Construction & Architecture, Hospitality, Plumbing, Business Administration & Computing, Painting and Decorating, Plasterboard, Pre Science, Beauty skills, Hairdressing, Civil Construction, Brick,
Block & Paving, Masonry Trades, Height Access, Roofing and Economics. In addition a Multi Trades option is available at year 11
to introduce students to a range of trades so they can make informed decisions about their future.
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