Career Guidance Workshop
Our Career Guidance Workshop can help you plan your current or future career journey. At this whānau-friendly event, our team will guide you to discover potential career options for your future.
Do you like working outdoors, love variety and do not see yourself in an office? Grow your green thumb and develop the hands-on skills, as well as specific technical knowledge to thrive in the horticulture industry.
Our General Horticulture (Level 3) course will see you gain fundamental skills in plant growing systems and environments. Progressing onto our amenity horticulture programmes further explores the care and maintenance of parks, gardens and open spaces. You will build the knowledge, training and skills to care for public and private gardens, parks and open spaces while also experiencing the benefit of learning at the beautiful Hamilton Gardens Campus.
Amenity horticulture graduates contribute to the community and society through:
Typically you will study our horticulture programmes over two years. This structure develops the skills and knowledge to become assistant or lead amenity horticulturalists, plant collection assistants, turf apprentices, amenity team leaders or contractors.
Studying the Applied Horticulture Services (Level 3) Amenity strand, you will be introduced to the fundamentals of the industry over one semester. Following on, the 12-month Advanced Horticulture Services (Level 4) Amenity course will allow you to be qualified to be a team leader in an amenity garden situation.
To check what you need to gain entry to a course, review the entry criteria available on each programme page. These assist you in understanding what qualifications or experience are typically required to gain entry. You can contact our team at info@wintec.ac.nz or 0800 2 Wintec at any time for further guidance.
The Wintec Prospectus (otherwise known as a course guide) outlines everything you need to know about Wintec. It contains information about the Wintec campuses, student life, and the programmes that are on offer.
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