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About the programme

Develop your green thumb skills in propagating, transplanting, and caring for plants. You will build your experience and knowledge of the techniques needed to propagate and grow commercial nursery crops, as well as identifying, naming, and selecting plants for a range of sites.

The best part about studying nursery at Otago Polytechnic is our hands-on approach to learning. You will gain practical growing experience in our Cromwell nursery.

This qualification is a mix of theoretical and practical studies, and your learning will be based in the campus plant nursery and modern glasshouses.

It is delivered part-time (20 weeks) over two to three years.

Entry

Skills needed to work in this area

• An enjoyment of working outdoors
• Physical fitness
• Planning and organisational skills
• Good communication skills
• An eye for detail.

Entry requirements

• Open Entry

English Language requirements

• If English is not your first language, you must provide:
  • ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ University Entrance OR
  • Overall Academic IELTS 5.5 (academic, no band score lower than 5.0) achieved in one test completed in the last two years, OR
  • Acceptable alternative evidence of the required IELTS ().

If you need to improve your English language skills, we offer a .

Selection process

Applicants will be processed as they are received. If the number of applications exceeds the number of places available, applicants will be placed on a waiting list in the order that they applied.

Want your existing skills recognised?

If you have extensive knowledge and skills due to practical experience in this area, please ask us about our recognition of prior learning process. You may have already gained credits towards this qualification and could achieve it in a shorter timeframe. Please email [email protected] or call 0800 762 786.