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Career Start (formerly STAR) at SIT

Boost your career chances!

In conjunction with the Government and secondary schools, SIT is helping young people discover their ‘calling’ in life by offering Career Start (formerly STAR) courses which allow students to study programmes not available through their secondary school.

This offers an opportunity for students to have a clear pathway into tertiary programmes or to achieve vocational credits alongside their school qualifications.

Career Start (formerly STAR) programmes are exclusively for students attending a New Zealand secondary school and enrolments must be made by the school Career Start Coordinator.

A Career Start (funded by Secondary Tertiary Alignment Resource (STAR)) course introduces secondary school students to training for a specific career or study at tertiary level. Career Start courses are short and are only available through polytechnics and private training organisations. Students participate in short-term programmes or ‘taster courses’ for a few days at a time, or one day per week for several weeks; and longer-term programmes leading into further secondary studies are also available.

SIT offers a range of on-campus STAR programmes at the Invercargill campus and additional programmes are delivered via SIT Online Online Distance Learning to students at secondary schools anywhere in New Zealand.

Are you in Year 11 or Year 12 at a Secondary School? Are you keen to learn hand-on skills, explore career pathways, and gain additional NCEA Credits? 

A STAR Course at SIT Invercargill might be perfect for you! Career Start Courses are one day a week, over a period of ten weeks. We offer a range of Career Start Courses in Term 1, Term 2, and Term 3.

 

SIT Online | Secondary Tertiary Pathways and Telford, offer flexible, online programmes for secondary school students across New Zealand. Whether through STAR, Gateway, or other pathway subjects, students can gain NZQA unit standards via online learning.

Our programmes help students explore vocational interests and build credits that align with tertiary qualifications and career pathways.

Our Course costs – SIT Online Learning and Telford

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Available Courses

Only available for high school students
  • Invercargill
  • SIT Online
  • Queenstown
  • Telford

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Please add your students below and click the "Add another student" button to continue adding students to this enrolment, or click the "Finish" button to complete the enrolment.

On submisison, you will receive a confirmation email to advise your enrolment has been received.

On receipt of the first enrolment a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) will be sent to the school's STAR/Gateway Coordinator within 10 working days

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Online enrolment is only available for STAR programmes delivered by SIT Online | Secondary Tertiary Pathways. To enrol students in on-campus STAR/Gateway programmes, please see contact details below.

STEP 1: Enrolments must be made by the school STAR/Gateway Coordinator via the form below

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SIT Online | Secondary-Tertiary Pathways Programmes:

SIT Online Pathways Coordinator
Southern Institute of Technology
Private Bag 90114
133 Tay Street
Invercargill 9840
Email: onlinepathways@sit.ac.nz
Free Phone: 03 2112651

Invercargill Campus Programmes:
STAR Coordinator
Southern Institute of Technology
Private Bag 90114
133 Tay Street
Invercargill, 9840
Email: staronsite@sit.ac.nz
Free Phone: 0800 403 337 

TELFORD STAR/GATEWAY Programmes:
STAR/Gateway Coordinator
Donna Osborne
PO Box 6
Balclutha, 9240
Courier: Telford
498 Owaka Highway, Balclutha, 9271
Email: Telford-STAR@sit.ac.nz
Free Call: 0800 TELFORD(835 367)