Tag: Training
BCITO launches new educational initiative
Joint intiative with REAP Aotearoa will help enhance a range of skillsSupport for regional construction apprentices lacking confidence with literacy, numeracy and other life...
Raukawa blesses trades training centre
Raukawa kaumatua blessed the soon-to-be opened $14 million South Waikato Trades Training Centre in Tokoroa in a dawn ceremony recently, and gave the building...
New simulator technology speeds up truck driver training
The launch of +IMPAC VRC’s Whiti Supply Chain truck driver training programme — using a New Zealand-first state-of-the-art simulator technology — is expected to...
Scholarships help Manawatu builders upskill
For Manawatu builders Jack Lord and Connor Deane, receiving a Freemasons Willson Lewis Scholarship is an opportunity to take their careers to the next...
Improve your business and apprentices with a BCITO Building Capability Grant
To celebrate applications opening for this year’s BCITO Building Capability Grants, Building Today spoke with one of last year’s recipients, Jennian Homes Wellington managing...
Competenz first TITO to transition to Te Pukenga
Competenz has been the first Transitional Industry Training Organisation (TITO) to transition to Te Pukenga after a powhiri held in Hamilton recently.
Competenz’s trade-based training...
Cultural diversity offers ‘significant unrealised potential’
The search is on for Auckland employers keen to upskill their Pacific employees, via fully funded workplace-based training.
Auckland Unlimited, the region’s economic and cultural...
A vocational education system fit for the future
Meeting a large skills shortage is no mean feat, but in challenge lies opportunity. Enter the Reform of Vocational Education (RoVE) — the biggest...
Building skills for the future — still a long way to go to meet...
The number of Kiwis taking up construction apprenticeships has reached record high numbers, but Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation chief executive Warwick Quinn...