Targeted Training & Apprenticeship Fund
Help get the country moving by getting the skills employers need now!
Designed to help New Zealand grow post-Covid, the government’s Targeted Training and Apprenticeship Fund means a range of industry-specific courses are fees-free from 1 July 2020 and 31 December 2022.
You can find out more about this fees-free offer here.
Fees-Free TTAF study options at Ara:
Health and Wellbeing
Engineering and Architecture
- New Zealand Diploma in Architectural Technology
- New Zealand Diploma in Construction (Construction Management)
- New Zealand Diploma in Construction (Quantity Surveying)
- New Zealand Diploma in Engineering (Civil)
- New Zealand Diploma in Engineering (Electrical)
- New Zealand Diploma in Engineering (Electronic)
- New Zealand Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical)
Trades
- New Zealand Certificate in Joinery
- New Zealand Certificate in Joinery with strand in Cabinetry
- New Zealand Certificate in Joinery with strand in Timber Door and Window
- New Zealand Certificate in Joinery with strand in Laminate Fabrication
- New Zealand Certificate in Joinery with strand in Timber Stairs
- New Zealand Certificate in Electrical Engineering Theory
- New Zealand Certificate in Plumbing, Gasfitting and Drainlaying (Pre-Apprenticeship)
- New Zealand Certificate in Gasfitting
- New Zealand Certificate in Plumbing
- New Zealand Certificate in Mechanical Engineering (Trade) Fitting and Machining Strand
- New Zealand Certificate in Mechanical Engineering (Trade) General Engineering Strand
- New Zealand Certificate in Mechanical Engineering (Trade) Machining Strand
- New Zealand Certificate in Mechanical Engineering (Trade) Maintenance Engineering Strand
- New Zealand Certificate in Mechanical Engineering (Trade) Toolmaking Strand
- New Zealand Certificate in Mechanical Engineering
- New Zealand Certificate in Engineering Fabrication (Trade) (Light Fabrication Strand)
- New Zealand Certificate in Carpentry
- New Zealand Certificate in Construction Trade Skills Carpentry strand
- New Zealand Certificate in Construction Trade Skills Allied Trades strand (Painting and Decorating)
- New Zealand Certificate in Construction Trade Skills Joinery strand