The funding stream we work with is the Workplace Literacy and Numeracy Fund which is administered by the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC). Under this fund, literacy providers, such as ourselves, have pre-approved places they can allocate to businesses they are working with. This funding method allows us to engage with businesses and get programmes up
We are now the first official New Zealand OET Premium Preparation Provider and we do our best to help you succeed in your exam. You can see us listed on the OET website and find our OET course in the official OET Shop. What is an OET Premium Preparation Provider? OET has developed the
Cow to cafe in 24 hours So much language, literacy and numeracy in these labels. Product lines, different overseas export markets, all produced with slightly different ingredients, fat and protein levels, organic certification or not etc. The product’s story is how milk gets from a cow wandering around the fields of the Bombay Hills to
We’re amazed how many businesses we talk to are not familiar with the Immigration New Zealand Accredited Employer scheme. In short, once you are accredited, the process of hiring from overseas is significantly streamlined. For example, it means that you no longer need to test the local labour market before hiring someone offshore and processing
We made a recipe book. Here’s a link to download your own copy. If you try any of the recipes, please tell us how they went. Multi-cultural recipe book (PDF 2MB). Communicating cross-culturally with food, literacy and numeracy We have been working with The Selwyn Foundation for over 3 years, providing Business Communication Skills Courses
As an organisation, Countdown recognises that people across the whole organisation can benefit from upskilling in language, literacy, communication and numeracy. It has been great working with people in the Countdown Support Office over the last couple of years. Our learners have been merchandisers, logistics people, people in property maintenance, payroll, IT, business support people
Over the last couple of years, we have helped hundreds of medical professionals develop their language skills and prepare for the OET test. We are running workshops and one-to-one tutorials during the day and the OET Intensive course in the evenings. Passing OET is an important milestone in someone’s career but because the test is
Our Workplace Team have had another very busy year. We have run projects with ADHB at Auckland Hospital and The Selwyn Foundation across their North Island sites as well as a number of smaller projects in a range of businesses. We were involved in a project producing some embedded literacy resources for the healthcare sector
Yvonne, a doctor from China, popped in this afternoon with coffees. She recently recently passed OET, the Occupational English Test, so we asked her some questions about the approach she took. Why OET? “I’m a doctor from China and am working in New Zealand in a research position. I had previously taken IELTS a couple
One of the things we try to implement in our workplace literacy and numeracy courses is creating opportunities for learners to transfer the skills they are practising in our classes to their workplace. We believe that if transfer opportunities are set up explicitly in class and learners leave the classroom with permission and direction to