11 May 2015
Competenz scholarships: encouraging learners into higher qualifications
One of the priorities in the government’s Tertiary Education Strategy is to encourage learners to continue their training to gain higher qualifications.
11 May 2015
Got a Trade Week 2015 - (21-28 August)
Got a Trade Week 2015 is a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of workplace qualifications among jobseekers, their teachers and parents. New Zealand needs skilled tradespeople.
11 May 2015
Workchoice Earn & Learn 2015: preparing students for life after school
These free events will give secondary students an opportunity to: hear directly from local businesses about what they are looking for when they hire young people, and the opportunities on offer learn...
07 May 2015
From Romania to Rangiora: our Signmaking Apprentice of the Year
Portable trade skills, a job vacancy in far-away Rangiora, the support of good employer and industry training organisation Competenz, and plain hard work combined to see recent Romanian immigrant John...
05 May 2015
GOT A TRADE? GOT IT MADE! has Kiwi Fern’s back
Already a staunch supporter of New Zealand Rugby League (NZRL), GOT A TRADE? GOT IT MADE! is getting behind the Kiwi Ferns as a sponsor of the women’s international programme.
04 May 2015
Getting the low-down on this year's butchery awards
Butchery apprentices who have entered, or are considering signing up for the Competenz Butcher Apprentice of the Year competition, will be interested in a series of workshops running nationwide in...
01 May 2015
Congratulations to our Print Apprentice of the Year
Congratulations to Print Apprentice of the Year, Cheyne Lesa, and this year's finalists.
30 April 2015
North vs South: butchers’ challenge
The North vs South Butchers’ Challenge was the hidden gem of the 2015 Retail Meat New Zealand Conference, held at Auckland’s Heritage Hotel, 17-18 April, 2015.
30 April 2015
Making it easy to train the ‘best of the best’
Auckland-based engineering firm Fluid & General is training their first ATNZ apprentice — and it's proving a good experience.
30 April 2015
Women in trades: You can’t be what you can’t see
One group of New Zealanders continues to be heavily under-represented among our ATNZ apprentices: women.
