Industry Training

An industry training body is threatening to go to the High Court and the Waitangi Tribunal to delay a radical shakeup of the country's training system.

Alex Wood says taking on a trade was the best thing he could have done.

As a former plumbing apprentice himself, Blake Ingram is keen to have apprentices on his crew today.

Education Minister Chris Hipkins says we need a vocational education system that seamlessly delivers training needed by industry regardless of whether that training is delivered on the job or through a provider. But others doubt the proposed reforms will achieve this goal. By Jude Barback.

Maggie Myocevich became the first woman to sign on for a NZ Scaffolding Apprenticeship.

Nikita Ward is in her third year of a plumbing apprenticeship and loving it.

Rody Wiltenburg swapped dairy farming for an electrical apprenticeship and hasn't looked back.

Fears that radical polytechnic reforms will scare off international students have surfaced in a leaked email from a Government agency.

While the unions are delighted to see an end signalled to the “bums on seats, market-driven” approach to vocational education, industry training organisations (ITOs) believe the Government’s proposals to reform the vocational education system are potentially destructive to an on-job training system in New Zealand that is “humming”.

The Government proposes a new national institute to take over all 16 polytechnics and manage most apprentices and industry trainees. Here's how it would affect you.