Manukau Institute of Technology and Unitec - Mt Albert

Last updated 27 August 2026
Last updated 27 August 2026

Contact details

Address
139 Carrington Road, Mt Albert, Auckland, Auckland
Phone
09 815 4321 ext. 7598
Email
sconway@unitec.ac.nz
Website
https://www.unitec.ac.nz

Courses

Course

New Zealand Certificate in English Language (Academic) (Level 4)

Learners will develop the skills to:
- Understand the main ideas and key supporting details of complex oral texts on familiar and sometimes unfamiliar topics.
- Read and understand complex texts with a high degree of independence on familiar and sometimes unfamiliar topics.
- Locate, organise and summarise important information in texts.
- Speak with fluency and spontaneity, communicating with some elaboration in familiar and unfamiliar contexts.
- Write coherent texts appropriate to the audience and purpose, with few linguistic errors, while synthesising and evaluating information and arguments from multiple sources.

Course timing

Full-time or part-time
Full-time
Private tutoring available
No
Hours per week
16 hours
Course length
16 weeks

Course fees

Course costs
$3663.3 per semester
Enrolment/administration fee
$0
Materials fee
$0
Course

New Zealand Certificate in English Language (General/Applied) (Level 3)

Learners will develop the skills to:
- Understand the main points and key supporting details in extended oral interactions and factual information in familiar contexts.
- Speak with coherence, fluency and spontaneity to express personal ideas and sustain interactions in familiar contexts.
- Read and understand a range of texts on familiar topics, and scan, locate and gather information to complete a specific task.
- Write comprehensible, connected texts on familiar topics with reasonable linguistic accuracy, using a range of text types.

Course timing

Full-time or part-time
Full-time
Private tutoring available
No
Hours per week
16 hours
Course length
16 weeks

Course fees

Course costs
$3715.2 per semester
Enrolment/administration fee
$0
Materials fee
$0
Course

New Zealand Certificate in English Language (Level 5)

Learners will develop the skills to:
- Understand the main ideas of complex spoken texts on both concrete and abstract topics.
- Speak with fluency and spontaneity to communicate information, ideas and thoughts in extended discourse on familiar and unfamiliar topics.
- Use appropriate skills and language to manage interactions in formal and informal settings.
- Read and understand complex texts independently on familiar and unfamiliar topics.
- Summarise and synthesise information across complex texts for a specific purpose.
- Write extended, logically structured and coherent texts appropriate to the audience and purpose, synthesising, evaluating and applying information and arguments from multiple sources.

Course timing

Full-time or part-time
Full-time
Private tutoring available
No
Hours per week
16 hours
Course length
16 weeks

Course fees

Course costs
$3400.8 per semester
Enrolment/administration fee
$0
Materials fee
$0