Cadet Scheme

Cadet Programme

The Building Officials Institute’s Training Academy has recognised that a skills shortage is fast approaching the building controls sector within New Zealand. The intention is to develop a national cadet scheme that is a work based learning pathway that will provide quality skills in all aspects of local authority building controls.

The programme structure has been adopted by a number of Councils around the country and adapted by those Councils to meet their own recruitment needs. To know more about the programmes on offer contact your local Council/s.

Strategic Aims

Establish a vocational skills pathway for cadet building control officials in New Zealand.
To enable cadets to recognise and gain access to a wide range of high quality learning programmes from partners based on innovative and high quality teaching, learning and assessment methods to meet the needs of those cadets.
To avoid a serious and foreseeable skills and service delivery gap facing building consent authorities and local councils.

Objectives

To develop a coherent skills pathway formula for cadets that facilitates maximum achievement and clear progression routes.
To engage cadets in the learning and progression outcomes of high quality work related learning.
To develop opportunities to meet the needs of learners, their aspirations and aptitudes across their ability range.
To enable cadets to progress and achieve at an appropriate pace to meet their individual needs.
To further develop progression pathways into higher education from vocational routes towards degrees and professional qualification status.
To support the development of appropriate impartial advice and guidance to all building control appointed cadets.
Encouraging cadets to develop generically transferable skills such as the ability to plan, research, present and evaluate different forms of information.
To increase the cadet’s self confidence and ability to work with greater independence.
To develop the cadet’s ability to reflect on their own learning and enhance their levels of achievement and performance in other areas of work.

For more information contact:

training@boinz.org.nz or 04 473 6003