St Paul’s Collegiate School in conjunction with the Ministry of Education, NZQA and the primary industries have collaborated to design an agribusiness programme that will prepare the best and brightest students for careers in the primary sector.
The Centre of Excellence for Agricultural Science and Business
It is offered at NCEA Levels 2 and 3 and is designed for students who excel in science and commerce subjects. This academic course exposes students to the wide range of skills required and the opportunities available in the primary sector beyond the farm gate.
The agribusiness programme is now being offered at other schools around New Zealand.
Agribusiness Professional Development Workshops
St Paul's Collegiate School is running free professional development workshop days in five regions throughout the country in June for educators...On TV : Rural Delivery
Developing an agribusiness curriculum for secondary students.In the News
Agribiz targets bright kids: Agribusiness studies are coming to secondary schools throughout the country with New Zealand's brightest senior college students being targeted to learn a raft of career skills from agriscience and agritechnology to agrimarketing and finance.In the News
High schools eye agribusiness to bolster industry: New Zealand secondary schools are trialling an agribusiness programme which aims to feed more students into tertiary study to provide future talent for the industry.On TV
Country TV, New Zealand’s only television channel dedicated to rural and equestrian New Zealand, has produced a new TV series Thinking Forward with partners Campbell Tyson. The very first episode focuses on education as a driver of sustaining New Zealand's agricultural industry and features St Paul’s Collegiate School’s Centre of Excellence for Agricultural Science and Business initiative.
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