Vocational Pathway - Apiculture

Overview 

This is an entry level programme for students with an interest in the beekeeping l industry. The programme is aimed at teaching basic bee-farming knowledge and skills to students with little or no experience in apiculture, so they can be successfully employed as junior employees in the apiculture/beekeeping industries, and can proceed to higher levels of education within this industry. 

 Graduate Profile 

On completion of this programme, students will have knowledge and strategies to identify future employment pathways, have the necessary knowledge and skills for working safely in regards to the beekeeping industry and in a rural workplace.. Graduates will gain NCEA level 2

Course 

Content

 Beehives; assembly, shifting and repairs, characteristics of bees and bee disease, knowledge of the New Zealand beekeeping industry, contamination hazards and control methods with in the apiculture industry, hazards, hazard control, and consequences of injury in a rural workplace, safe use of Light Utility Vehicle’s

To provide a pathway to knowledge and self-awareness that will lead to better employment opportunities through work based training

Our mission statement is as relevant today as it was when we first started in 1996. We are aiming to inspire our students with skills and knowledge through vocational education and training.

This will then lead to more informed and positive employment and / or opportunities for students to staircase into higher level programmes of learning.

Our objectives as a tertiary education organisation (TEO) is to offer our stakeholders the opportunity to have input into our courses ensuring their individual needs are being met and quality is being maintained.