Training Opportunities
New Zealand Career College has a contract with Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) to offer Training Opportunities in a range of courses.

Training Opportunities offer New Zealand unemployed people aged over 18 with low qualifications the chance to gain valuable skills that will help them to find a job.

The training is both job-specific (e.g. offering the skills required for Early Childhood Education)and more general skills focusing on skills essential to any workplace (reading, working with figures, office and computer skills), which are all skills that will help people to secure employment.

Eligibility Criteria:
Training Opportunities are a restricted-entry programme targeting working age beneficiaries registered with Work and Income who lack foundation skills and are experiencing, or are at risk of experiencing, long-term unemployment.
Learners are eligible for Training Opportunities until they have accumulated a Training Opportunities total of 240 credits on the NQF, including credits gained from training programmes other than Training Opportunities. Learners re-entering the programme within six months retain eligibility if they have fewer than 240 credits.

Cost:
Free to eligible learners. Learners will continue to receive any benefits they are on and may also be eligible for a travel allowance.

Youth Criteria
New Zealand Career College has a contract with Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) to offer Youth Training in a range of courses.

Youth Training offers young people under 18 with low qualifications the chance to gain valuable skills that will help them to get a job.

Youth Training is both job-specific, offering the skills required for jobs in agriculture, hospitality or tourism for example; and general, focusing on skills that are essential in any workplace, such as reading, writing, working with figures, communication and working in teams. These are all skills that will help young people to get a job.

A key feature of Youth Training is the individual support offered to trainees that helps to set them on a path to further learning or future employment.

Eligibility Criteria:
Youth (15-17 year olds) with no or low qualifications, and WINZ clients with no or low qualifications who have been registered as job seekers for six months or more are eligible for the programmes. Also, WINZ clients who have low or no qualifications who are assessed as being at risk of long-term unemployment, and those who have higher qualifications but are assessed as lacking foundation skills are also eligible.

Cost:
Free to eligible learners. Learners will continue to receive any benefits they are on, and they may also be eligible for a travel allowance.