3 March 2025
A Rotorua tutor’s job has been saved and 48 students can continue their timber machining apprenticeships after changes were made to a proposal to disestablish them.
Students doing the New Zealand Certificate in Timber Machining (level four) apprenticeship programme at Toi Ohomai’s Waipā Campus will continue their training on-site this year. Next year, qualifications will be moved to “on-the job”, Toi Ohomai has confirmed.
However, one industry manager says a lack of on-site training “could hold back timber manufacturing in New Zealand”.
Source: Rotorua Daily Post
Image credit: Toi-Ohomai
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