TATC - Profile

Profile

Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre is one of New Zealand’s leading rural education centres. We are well recognised for our full-time qualifications, but we also have a strong reputation for other innovative training packages that we have developed to cater for industry demands. Our main, residential campus is located 11kms south of Masterton in the Wairarapa. We also have a campus based on the Stratford Demonstration farm in Taranaki (non-residential).

Taratahi provides a supportive training environment always recognising that our students are a diverse pool of individuals. Our students are male and female, from both city and country backgrounds. They are of diverse ethnicity and come from all corners of the country and occasionally from overseas.

Taratahi offers a unique learning environment, with over 7,000 hectares of commercial farm land, a fully residential hostel and significant well-resourced teaching areas. There are a huge number of scholarships available for our full time students.

Courses offered by Taratahi are carefully researched to ensure that graduates have the skills necessary to meet the changing needs of the farming industry.

Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre is registered with the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. We are accredited to offer selected units of learning from the national qualifications framework in agriculture and many land-based skills.

There is a strong demand for Taratahi graduates from farms all over New Zealand. In fact 95% of Taratahi graduates looking for work have a great farming job within a month of leaving and some students have 2 or 3 job offers when they are still only halfway through Term 4.