Course details

Summary

Programme highlights

Get hands on experience with planting, pruning, nursery operations and production, using and maintaining tools and machinery to give you the skills required for a career in the nursery production industry.

Carry out specialised nursery operation and production activities, keep records throughout the growing seasons while gaining hands on practical experience.

Through work placement develop self-management, professional conduct and communication skills while carrying out parks and gardens tasks in real world situations.

Career opportunities

Nursery Team Leader, Nursery Specialist, Propagator

Programme structure

This certificate is based on both practical activities and theory content.

The four courses are:

Plants and Maintenance

Demonstrate communication skills, interact with team members and colleagues, select and plant plants, carry out routine maintenance tasks for the landscape industry

Nursery Operations and Production

Carry out simple nursery operational tasks, work safely with tools and machinery in a nursery situation, care for plants in a nursery through the growing cycles, keep nursery records throughout the growing seasons.

Advanced Nursery Operations and Production

Carry specialised nursery operational and production tasks

Work Placement

Demonstrating communication skills and professional conduct, instructing and supervising team members, carrying out specific nursery production tasks.

Further study

Diploma in Nursery Production (Level 5) which leads to the Diploma in Horticulture Production (Level 5) with a strand in Nursery Production

Entry criteria

General: Be physically capable of completing the practical aspects of the programme as per the Faculty Checklist list at an information session.

Academic: Have an appropriate level of literacy and numeracy skills to study at Level 4

English Language Entry Requirements: Applicants must have sufficient competence in the English language to undertake this programme which is taught and assessed in English. This will be demonstrated by meeting the current NZQA requirements.

• IELTS test - General or Academic score of 5.5 with no band score lower then 5
• TOEFL Paper-based test (pBT) - Score of 530 (with an essay score of 4.5 TWE)
• TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT) - Score of 46 (with a writing score of 20)
• Cambridge English Examinations - FCE or FCE for schools with a score of 162. No less than 154 in each skill OET at Grade C in all sub-tests
• NZCEL a) Expiring b) Current - a) Level 3 (Academic) b) Level 3 (Applied)
• Pearson Test of English (Academic) - PToE (Academic) score of 42
• City & Guilds IESOL - B2 Communicator with a score of 42

Provisional Entry

Students who have attained the age of 20 years and do not hold the minimum entry requirements for a programme will be eligible to be enrolled as a student where their previous educational, work or life experience indicates they have a reasonable likelihood of success. Students who have not attained the age of 20 years and do not hold the required minimum entry requirements for a programme may also be eligible to enrol in exceptional circumstances. Such decisions will be made by the Faculty Dean.