UCOL’s New Zealand Certificate in Electrical Engineering Theory is a one-year full-time pre-apprenticeship programme with a practical focus that will help get your career started as an electrician or other roles in the electrical industry. The New Zealand Certificate in Electrical Engineering Theory is one of two entry pathways into the electrical industry and is intended for candidates who do not have an electrical apprenticeship agreement.

Graduates of this qualification will be equipped with the skills, knowledge, and attributes to work in apprenticeships in the electrical industry in the field of their choice with guidance, mentoring, and supervision in accordance with the Electricity Act 1992. Examples of roles that this qualification may lead to are: Electricity Supply Electrical Apprentice Domestic/Commercial Electrical Apprentice Industrial Electrical Apprentice An apprenticeship another electrical related sector.