Cookery
Study Cookery
Get all the ingredients for a fulfilling career. If food is your thing check out our highly practical cookery programmes. There are options stretching across the whole industry taught by experts who want to see you succeed.
Food Safety Practice in a Commercial Environment (Training Scheme)
Learn how to produce food safely and understand how to prevent cross contamination.
- Level 4
New Zealand Certificate in Cookery (Level 3)
Discover the basic skills needed to be a part of the food industry. This introductory programme covers basic methods of food preparation, cooking and health and safety practices. Use this programme to pathway on to higher cooking qualifications.
- Level 3
- 17 weeks, full-time
New Zealand Certificate in Cookery
Take the first step in starting your professional chef career no matter what your experience level. Come and surround yourself with like-minded people and learn from tutors who are industry professionals. Get equipped with everything you need to know in a hands-on purpose-built environment and have the opportunity to experience an industry work placement.
- Level 4
- 1 year, full-time
New Zealand Certificate in Cookery Managed Traineeship
If you're working in a commercial kitchen or an employer wanting to develop your staff, this is the programme for you. “Earn while you learn” and turn your experience into a qualification and become a qualified chef. Develop your skills from the basics to advanced techniques guided by our professional chef tutors in a hands-on purpose-built environment.
- Level 4
- 2 years part-time
New Zealand Diploma in Cookery (Advanced)
Build on your culinary skills to understand and apply advanced cooking techniques. Develop your kitchen management knowledge including menu planning, costing and dish design. Your learning will be supported with an industry placement in a commercial kitchen.
- Level 5
- 1 year, full-time (2 days per week)
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Give yourself credit
Use the knowledge and skills you already have to fast-track your qualification with minimum cost. Workplace-learning, volunteering, professional development, other provider qualifications and online courses or units can be recognised as prior learning and put towards your future diploma or degree.
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