Trades Academy funding
Trades Academy funding
The Trades Academy Fund supports partnerships between schools, tertiary education organisations and employers to provide senior secondary school students (Years 11–13) with access to high quality trades and technology programmes.
The Trades Academy Fund supports partnerships between schools, tertiary education organisations and employers to provide senior secondary school students (Years 11–13) with access to high quality trades and technology programmes.
Trades Academies provide trade or industry-related programmes of study to secondary school students who want to focus on a particular trade or industry.
Trades Academies aim to keep young New Zealanders engaged in education and training by creating a clear pathway between secondary school and further education, training, or employment. Closer alignment of schools, the tertiary education sector and industry helps to make the future workforce more responsive to local and national business and economic needs.
Each Trades Academy is run by a lead provider, which can be a school or a tertiary education organisation (TEO). There is no single model of provision. Each one has developed its own approach. Many Trades Academies have students from multiple schools in a region, or even across the country.
The Trades Academy fund is administered by the Ministry of Education, with payments to TEOs administered by the Tertiary Education Commission.
For information on Trades Academy funding, including eligibility, enrolment, and funding rates, please visit: