Rule ENR137: Learner criteria - Youth Training

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Rule or condition

Learners must meet any one of the following criteria to enrol in a Youth Training programme:

• Be aged less than 18 with low qualifications and have left school or been exempted from school attendance
• Be aged 18 or older and have left school within the last 26 weeks with low qualifications
• Be aged less than 18, enrolled with Workbridge, and referred after an in-depth interview
• Be aged less than 18 and a refugee who has left the Mangere Refugee Centre or entered the country within the last year
• Be aged less than 18, referred by Work and Income as a youth client, referred by a Youth Transitions Service or registered unemployed for 13 weeks or more, with no tertiary qualifications.*
• Be aged less than 18, have left or been exempt from school with 81 or more credits on the National Qualifications Framework but have National Certificate of Achievement (NCEA) results that show fewer than a total of 12 credits in English (literacy) and/or mathematics (numeracy).

Learners re-entering the Youth Training programme within six months retain eligibility if they have fewer than 240 credits.

The TEC may grant discretionary enrolment.

 

*Note: The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) applies an upper limit of 15% regionally for learners with higher qualifications entering under this criterion. The TEC grants approval on a case-by-case basis for learners without low qualifications. A letter from the Youth Transitions Service is sufficient evidence for this code.