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We work closely with schools, helping them to understand the employment and career opportunities within the New Zealand and international fashion industry.

We provide opportunities for students to come and visit NZFT and take part in Gateway, Work Choice and STAR Programmes.

Welcome to NZFT for Schools

Overview

NZ Fashion Tech is working strategically with schools, careers advisors and parents around the country to inform them of the growth of desirable career options available for students within the sewn products industries.

Watch the NZFT For Schools Video >

Management and staff are speaking at technical teachers’ conferences, having staff visit schools, attending and presenting at school careers evenings and hosting school student visits to NZ Fashion Tech.

Student Success Stories

Student and Graduate Success Stories >

Read and listen to how students and graduates have started their career in fashion after studying with us.

Careers and Opportunities

The numbers of younger students seeking skills for employment in the fashion and sewn products industries is growing.

High school students, their teachers, and their careers advisers increasingly understand that the fashion and clothing industry is a viable, growing and exciting career option.

In 2010 NZ Fashion Tech visited over sixty different schools meeting students, careers advisors and technical teachers to up-date them with current changes to the fashion and clothing industries and the career options open to new entrants.

School Leavers Without Qualifications

At the present time, mainstream high school education in New Zealand results in more than 20% of learners graduating with no, or very few qualifications or skills.

NZ Fashion Tech services the needs of these students and industry by:

  • Providing smaller classes with a strong practical industry focus
  • Personalised instruction
  • Accelerated learning techniques
  • Integration of capability skills
    (communication, numeracy, literacy, life skills etc).

Our Philosophy to Learning

The shorter vocational programmes also mean students can enter and exit at their capability levels rather than be precluded from a 3 year degree programme.

Classrooms are designed to replicate the workplace and the gradual introduction of workplace skills, behaviours and work experience helps to ease the transition into, and fitness for, employment for all these students

External Evaluation Review NZQA

New Zealand Qualifications Authority awarded us the highest possible ranking in November 2010 as a result of their latest EER (External Evaluation Review). Here are some quotes taken from the executive summary.

You can download the NZQA report on NZ Fashion Tech using the following link:

NZQA Report on NZ Fashion Tech >

"Course qualification and completion rates are consistently high from this largest provider of technically based programmes for the fashion and clothing industries in New Zealand".

"NZ Fashion Tech displays a depth of engagement with it's industry which is reflected in the quality and relevance of the learning and subsequent success in employment and further training outcomes".

"Tutors bring a wealth of industry experience from a variety of backgrounds, adding to the learners' breadth of skills".

Students can access their Learner Profiles from the NZQA website.

Come and Visit Us

We welcome visits at any of our four sites, from interested students, careers advisers and technical teachers who want to learn about NZ Fashion Tech, and how we prepare students for life long careers in the fashion industry.

We are happy to arrange morning or afternoon tea, a presentation and an opportunity to meet with our tutors to answer any questions.

Please contact Morgan Toki on 0800 800 300 or email enquiries@nzfashiontech.ac.nz

Our Four Sites

We have four sites, Auckland city, Papatoetoe and New Lynn and one in Wellington City....

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