Unitec to offer more student places in building trades

New Zealand’s largest provider of construction and trade training, Unitec, has announced plans to significantly boost student places in 2012 – welcome news for an economy in need of a growing construction workforce.
Unitec will offer 34 per cent more student places across a range of construction, civil engineering and trade programmes at Post Graduate, Bachelor, Diploma and Certificate levels next year.
Over a thousand additional students will have the opportunity to take up training opportunities in construction, civil engineering, carpentry, electrical engineering, plumbing and gasfitting and quantity surveying.
Interest in trade, construction and civil engineering training among students has been strong recently. Enrolments on courses starting in August have shown an increase of more than 30 per cent on 2010 second semester student numbers.