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      • Recent consultations: Call for feedback!
      • Opinion: Vocational education reform - We can keep the baby while we change the bathwater
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      • Reform proposals carry opportunities – but to dismantle a thriving ITO sector is illogical
      • Equipping the people who make recreation happen at Christchurch City Council
      • Consulting on Music unit standards: Call for feedback!
      • Multi-talented mountain biker adds another string to his bow with Skills Active qualification
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      • Sharing in the fruits of industry training success
      • Opinion: Riding shotgun, feeling like a no-one: Sport and recreation administrators in New Zealand just don’t get it!
      • New qualification framework to step up New Zealand’s professional mountain bike workforce
      • Working on strength, fitness and wellbeing at all ages and stages
      • Consulting on Sport and Recreation unit standards: Call for feedback!
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      • Making on-job training fun and fresh at H²O Xtream
      • Variety is the spice of mountain life
      • Growing connections between students and the outdoors with Skills Active Aotearoa apprentice Dave Thomas
      • Consulting on NZ Recreation Safety Auditing (Level 6): Call for feedback!
      • Getting qualified out on the green with Skills Active Aotearoa apprentice Nick Loach
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      • Health, happiness and on-job training with Skills Active Aotearoa apprentice Mark Hurdle
      • Auckland Council staff shine in receiving Skills Active awards
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      • Meet the assessor: Gillian Christian
      • Skills Active speakers at Tuia Te Ako talk about opportunities for Māori in sport and exercise
      • Consulting on NZ Certificate in Aquatics (Senior Pool Lifeguard) (Level 4): Call for feedback!
      • Consulting on NZ Certificate in Sport Coaching (Level 3): Call for feedback!
      • Taking the leap of leadership at Boyle River
      • Consulting on NZ Certificate in Assistant Outdoor Leadership: Call for feedback!
      • Putting politics on ice in favour of an alpine career
      • Skills Active streamlining sign-ups with electronic enrolments
      • Skills Active Aotearoa debuts a qualification for the magic-makers of performing arts
      • Skills Active industry training graduates take flight
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      • Travelling safe and skilled on two wheels in Tauranga
      • Mountain Bike assessors hit the tracks!
      • Blue Light Whakatane: Bringing people together on bikes!
      • Skills Active Aotearoa gets a new home on the web
      • Lido's new lifeguards learning the ropes
      • Safety guidelines get the Mountain Bike sector rolling
      • How can we promote safe practices in New Zealand’s unregulated exercise industry?
      • Shining a light on partnership and innovation
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      • Victory for Nelson community group
      • Skills Active scores top marks in NZQA review
      • Workplace spotlight: Lloyd Elsmore Park Pool and Leisure Centre
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      • Thank you to all the sport and recreation volunteers
      • New snow qualifications hit the slopes
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      • Skills Active and fellow service ITOs join forces to go to bat for service professionals
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      • Omani delegation visits Skills Active on adventure activities fact-finding mission
      • Nelson Basketball joins forces with Skills Active to grow local talent
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      • Performing arts industry and Skills Active working in concert to strengthen the skill base
      • New Skills Active tool tackles the workforce planning process
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Skills Active Aotearoa is New Zealand’s industry training organisation for sport, recreation, exercise, and performing arts. We're a not-for-profit organisation that specialises in developing NZ qualifications. We partner with organisations to help them to align their workplace-based training to national standards, using high-quality tools and NZ's qualification framework.

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