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New Zealand Tertiary College (NZTC) has been providing comprehensive and professional programs to enable students to excel in their chosen field for more than 40 years. All of our qualifications are approved by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) and we deliver them not only across New Zealand but throughout the world with NZTC Global.

Unique Characteristics
NZTC’s unique characteristics, values and principles underpin everything we do, offering clear guidelines for who we are as a college and the commitment we offer to our communities:

NZTC is committed to enabling our students’ access to outstanding education offered via flexible technology enhanced modes of learning that support lifelong learning journeys
Our values of Vision, Heart, Competence and Spirit are the core qualities reflected in the ways in which we teach, care, support and learn
Our qualification conceptual frameworks offer guiding principles of focus
Our focus on the practical application of content knowledge that ensures our students are well prepared to care, learn and teach, and make meaningful contributions to our professional sector and communities in formal and informal ways
Our teaching and learning activities are influenced by our engagement with research and professional communities guiding adult education, and technology supported teaching and learning, in our chosen fields of expertise throughout New Zealand and internationally
Our community support projects abroad which reflect the sharing of our college values on a global scale

We began as the Kindercare Early Childhood Teachers College in 1982 after Glennie Oborn, founder of Kindercare Learning Centres New Zealand, recognised a need for high quality education to support the teachers working in her centres. These teachers were regarded as ‘childcare workers’ or ‘caregivers’, and by establishing the college the profile and professional reputation of early childhood teachers was raised. This decision to educate, and acknowledge, early childhood educators as teachers became the industry norm.

Only 12 students made up the very first class. This doubled when we became the first private training institution to offer a formal early childhood education program, after gaining government approval in 1984. Despite lots of interest and receiving 150 applications from early childhood teachers, the first intake of students for the program was limited to 25 places.

A few years later a pilot group of students were accepted to test the idea of flexible, field-based learning for students working in ECE centres. By 1988 the number of students we could accept had tripled, with students from other ECE providers enrolling in our programs. Almost a decade later, in 1997, we became widely known as New Zealand Tertiary College.

We were established to meet a need in the early childhood sector for qualified early childhood teachers. In 2017, we expanded to include health and wellbeing programs, supporting that same need for skilled staff within the healthcare industry.
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Today we:

have seen over 11,000 students graduate
deliver 9 early childhood education and 3 health and wellbeing programs
offer specialist early childhood education postgraduate programs, the first private ECE training provider to do so
give students the flexibility to study around work and family commitments, through rolling intakes on some programs and our unique online learning environment, NZTC Online
publish He Kupu (The Word), an early childhood education e-journal with an established global readership of more than 11,400
have been awarded NZQA Category 1 provider status four times

offer qualifications recognised by:
the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority
the Chinese Ministry of Education
the Malaysian Qualifications Agency and the Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education
the University Grants Commission – Sri Lanka
German higher education database Anabin
have created and gifted te reo resources to ECE centers around the country, including M?ori language learning resourceÌý Te Reo M?ori: He taonga m? ? t?tou mokopuna (He Taonga) to help nurture te reo M?ori learning and teaching in the sector