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      • Exercise Foundations Programme (Level 3)
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      • New Zealand Certificate in Outdoor Senior Leadership (Level 6)
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      • Dive Qualifications (Level 3, 4, 5)
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      • New Zealand Certificate in Entertainment and Event Operations (Level 3)
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      • A year of incredible achievements and interesting times for Skills Active
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      • Expert Advisory Group for entertainment and event technology unit standards used in schools: Call for expressions of interest!
      • Staying fit and having fun through the lockdown
      • More new qualifications for trainees who wish to walk with confidence in te ao Māori
      • Sport and recreation trainees keeping their brains busy and skills sharp
      • Personal trainer shares her fitness journey in a new Skills Active video
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      • Cycle coach stepping up her social media game through the lockdown
      • New Skills Active video captures an apprentice delivering exercise for recovery and wellbeing
      • Covid-19 pandemic: Information for Skills Active workplaces, trainees and partners
      • Expert Advisory Group for outdoor recreation unit standards used in schools: Call for expressions of interest!
      • Future star coach growing her skills and knowledge
      • Skills Active awards recognise world-class training and learning
      • Emerging exercise professional on his way with Skills Active scholarship
      • Sport, recreation and performing arts generate $6.2 billion for New Zealand economy
      • Growing the apprenticeship model in the outdoors
      • Acknowledging the departure of a highly-respected leader | Haere rā e te tumu whakarae, he mihi aroha ki a koe e te rangatira
      • Skills Active appoints an acting chief executive
      • Skills Active applauds decision on Workforce Development Councils
      • Skills Active Aotearoa trainees and apprentices graduate with flying colours
      • Skills Active Apprentice of the Year winner shares the secrets of his success in a new video
      • Consulting on two Recreation and Sport unit standards: Call for feedback!
      • Looking inwards and outwards at the Skills Active National Outdoors Hui
      • Nelson boxing gym a powerhouse of positive change
      • Skills Active scholarship winner stepping up her skills and supporting strong mums
      • Consulting on Outdoor Experiences qualifications: Call for feedback!
      • Consulting on Music (Level 4) unit standards: Call for feedback!
      • Skills Active Apprentice of the Year competition: Showcasing a talented outdoor instructor
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      • Cave guides learning the ropes at Waitomo Adventures
      • Skills Active Apprentice of the Year competition: A swimming career from Buenos Aires to Gore
      • Reaping the rewards of a training culture at the Rotorua Aquatic Centre
      • Only one chance: Getting the skills mix right for the sport, recreation, creative and cultural workforce
      • Consulting on expiring exercise unit standards
      • Young people getting an insight into their true potential at Boyle River
      • Mobil teams up with Skills Active Aotearoa on its Māori learning journey
      • Consulting on expiring Skills Active unit standards
      • Consulting on a single unit standard - Teach a Yoga class: Call for feedback!
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      • Personal trainer helping her clients to relish the challenges
      • Creating opportunities for a well-rounded team at Christchurch City Council
      • Consulting on Aquatic Treatment Systems (Level 4): Call for feedback!
      • Skills Active and its trainees get top marks for 2018
      • Final decision announced on vocational training reforms
      • Skills Active issues final draft of activity safety guidelines for mountain bike professionals
      • Skills Active at the High Court to challenge Minister Hipkins' inadequate reform consultation
      • Leading the way towards skill recognition for entertainment and event professionals
      • Consulting on group exercise class type unit standards: Call for feedback!
      • Prime Minister congratulates Skills Active performing arts graduates
      • Skills Active apprenticeship the culmination of a lifelong love of swimming
      • Government failure to listen destroys Māori vocational training
      • Minister of Education grants re-recognition to Skills Active Aotearoa
      • Consulting on a single unit standard for planning, delivering and reviewing a group training session: Call for feedback!
      • Napier’s The Lab growing its fitness whānau through exercise industry training
      • Consulting on NZ Certificate in Cycle Skills Instruction (Level 4) unit standards: Call for feedback!
      • Skills Active Aotearoa graduates spread their wings
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      • Putting personal growth in motion on the Avantidrome trikes
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      • Online petition launched to protect taonga of vocational education
      • Building safe cycling communities in Nelson and Marlborough
      • Vocational reform threatens Māori education taonga: Treaty of Waitangi claim
      • Skills Active gets the ball rolling on judicial review
      • ITO model is working for our Māori learners: Skills Active
      • Skills Active Aotearoa applies for a judicial review of inadequate reform consultation period
      • Consulting on NZ Certificate in Cycle Skills Instruction (Level 4): Call for feedback!
      • Skills Active submission on vocational reform presents a better alternative
      • Opinion: Industry training plan ultimatum not consultation
      • Skills Active considers Judicial Review to extend consultation on vocational reform
      • New qualification to upskill the talented technicians driving Kiwi entertainment and events
      • One-week extension to vocational reforms consultation labelled "paltry"
      • Māori leaders tell government: we want co-designed industry training, hands off the ITOs!
      • Vocational training reforms: Have your say!
      • ITO chair issues “wake-up call” to protect on-the-job training for Māori
      • Recent consultations: Call for feedback!
      • Opinion: Vocational education reform - We can keep the baby while we change the bathwater
      • Vocational Education and Training reform: What you need to know
      • Driven by a vision of better health for Pasifika people: Latu’s story
      • Under the ground and over the moon: Q&A with Waitomo Adventures
      • Reform proposals carry opportunities – but to dismantle a thriving ITO sector is illogical
      • Equipping the people who make recreation happen at Christchurch City Council
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      • Multi-talented mountain biker adds another string to his bow with Skills Active qualification
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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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