Vocational Pathway - Agriculture

Outline 

The programme is aimed at teaching basic farming knowledge and skills to students with little or no experience in agriculture, so they can be successfully employed as junior farm employees in the cattle, dairy or sheep industries, and can proceed to higher levels of education within these industries. 

Graduate Profiles 

On completion of this programme, students will have knowledge and strategies for identifying future employment pathways and organising their personal finances, have the necessary basic knowledge and skills for working safely in either the cattle, dairy or sheep industries, with regards to stock handling, fencing and maintenance, and the use of farm vehicles. Graduates will gain NCEA level 2. 

Course Content 

Graduates will gain an entry level range of skills in agriculture. Some of these skills will include the ability to demonstrate knowledge of; breeds and classes, safe handling and health problems of dairy cattle (dairy option), hazards, hazard control, and consequences of injury in a rural workplace, knowledge and features, attributes, identification, and records for sheep (sheep option)

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.