ISSUE 33 MARCH 2021
THE VOICE OF THE NEW ZEALAND AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
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Trade enrolments boosted SOME POLYTECHNICS ARE REPORTING SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN ENROLMENTS AS COVID HAS TURNED ATTENTION AWAY FROM TOURISM AND TOWARDS TRADES
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government initiative to support trades to help fill a national shortfall in trade trainees and to help people needing to redirect their careers in response to Covid’s clampdown on tourism is helping boost trainee numbers. Some polytechs are reporting significant increases in enrolments. Manukau Institute of Technology deputy chief executive (Pasifika) Peseta Sam Lotuliga has told Radio New Zealand (RNZ) its enrolments were up by more than 70 per cent over last year.
New facilities “The subjects we’re experiencing high growth in are subjects like engineering trades, professional engineering, construction, and automotive,” Lotu-Iiga says. Lotu-Iiga attributed the increase to the institute’s
new trades campus in Manukau and a government initiative intended to support a move into trades, which waived fees for many trade courses. The Waikato Institute of Technology has also reported an enrolment boost. The institute had
leased extra facilities and hired more teaching staff to cater for the extra demand. It is expecting about 650 more equivalent fulltime students and possibly more as courses starting later still have open enrolments.
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