New Zealand Certificate in Apiculture (Level 3)
Course details
| NZQF Level | 3 |
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About the course
Get into apiculture with a certification to show your skills, knowledge and ability to work safely and productively in a beekeeping environment.You will learn to maintain, manipulate and operate beehives to produce quality products and pollination services; assist transportation of beehives and products; establish hives in new sites and carry out beehive disease management plans.Topics that will be covered:Bees and their habitatBee ManipulationRequeening HoneyflowBee and Hive healthBee FeedingYou will be able to manage your own beehive, enter the apiculture industry or progress in your apiculture career with this qualification.This course is delivered online.Students will need to have access to at least a dozen working hives (that have been wintered) and be able to take and upload video evidence for assessment purposes.
About the provider
Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) provides quality tertiary education and training across a wide range of subjects and qualifications. From certificates to postgraduate studies, we offer NZQA programmes for students to learn at a level and pathway that suits them.
We are home to the Zero Fees Scheme and are the only tertiary provider in New Zealand to offer a no tuition cost education to domestic NZ students for every year of study, at all levels.
We offer SIT programmes at campuses in Invercargill, Queenstown, Gore, and online through SIT2LRN Distance Learning.
We also have a specialised faculty in rural education at Telford in Balclutha, South Otago.