Get into the construction trades sector with the New Zealand Certificate in Construction Trade Skills (Level 3) - Joinery Allied Trades. This joinery and allied trades course will set you up for an apprenticeship or entry-level job in the industry.
Graduates will learn to build full-size interior and exterior joinery items using hand and power tools, preparing them for Allied trade pathway. They'll gain expertise in using related tools and understand the interrelationships between trades, allowing them to contribute valuable skills and craftsmanship as part of a team.
40 weeks
Full time
2025 Semester 1: 17 February to 21 November
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The New Zealand Certificate in Construction Trade Skills (Level 3) - Joinery Allied Trades will help you become work-ready to start an apprenticeship or entry-level job in the industry. This qualification is suitable for people new to, or intending to enter, the construction trades sector.
Our tutors have a real passion for the industry and help students achieve some amazing results. Many of our past students have moved onto successful careers.
Students spend three days per week on the course and gain work experience with local businesses where possible.
You will learn:
The strands recognise the knowledge and skills required of entrants to allied trades or joinery trades.
The purpose of this qualification is to provide the wider construction trades sector with work-ready people able to enter the construction trades as a labourer or an apprentice who have developed essential transferable skills and underpinning knowledge applicable to a wide range of construction-related trades.
Joinery and Allied Trades strands:
Graduates of this qualification will be able to enter employment in trades within the construction and related industry as a labourer or an apprentice. With additional training and/or experience they may go on to further roles in the construction industry such as joiner, plasterer, painter or roofer.
Applicants should be a minimum of 16 years of age and able to complete the physical requirements of the programme.
English Language entry criteria
Applicants, whose first language is not English, or who come from a country where the language of instruction in schools is not English, are required to provide evidence of having achieved one of the following
NCEA Level 3 with University Entrance, or
an International Baccalaureate Diploma or Cambridge A¬ level qualification for which the teaching and assessment was conducted in English; or
Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA),or
Trinity College London Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CertTESOL);or
Successful completion of all primary education (being the equivalent of New Zealand primary school years 1 to 8) and at least three years of secondary education (being the equivalent of three years from New Zealand secondary school years 9 to 13) at schools in either New Zealand,,Australia,,Canada, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States one of the countries listed in Rule 18.5 where the student was taught using English as the language of instruction; or
Successful completion of at least five years of secondary education (being the equivalent of New Zealand secondary school years 9 to 13) at schools in either New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States where the student was taught using English as the language of instruction; or
Successful completion of a Bachelor ‘s Degree, Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, Bachelor Honours degree, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, Masters’ Degree or Doctoral Degree, the language of instruction of which must be in English and which must be from a tertiary education provider from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom or the United States or
Successful completion of one of the following internationally recognised proficiency tests listed below to the level required of the programme of study and with all scores achieved in a single test during the two years preceding the proposed date of enrolment
Certificate at Level 3
IELTS test - General or Academic score of 5 with no band score lower than 5TOEFL Paper based test (pBT) where the test was carried out prior to 1 October 2017 - Score of 500 (with an essay score of 4 TWE)TOEFL Internet based test (iBT) - Score of 35 (with a writing score of 14)Cambridge English Examination – B2 First or B2 First for schools with a score of 154. No less than 154 in each skill.OET - Minimum of Grade C or 200 in all sub-testsNZCEL - a) Expiring Level b) Current:a) Level 3 (General) or (Workplace) b) Level 3 (General)Pearson Test of English (Academic) – PTE (Academic) score of 36 with no band score lower than 36Language Cert - B1 Achiever International ESOL Written (LRW) PASS with no less than 25/50 in each skill and Spoken (S) PASSTrinity ISE - ISE I with no less than distinction in any band
To satisfactorily complete New Zealand Certificate in Construction Trade Skills (Level 3) - Joinery Allied Trades programme and be awarded the New Zealand Certificate in Construction Trade Skills (Level 3) with strands in Joinery and Allied Trades qualification the student must successfully achieve:-
Please note: students failing to engage in study as per programme requirements may forfeit zero fees entitlement.