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ANDY JACKSON/Stuff WITT student Sacha Mills decided to study social work after struggling with her own mental health issues and finding there wasn't enough resources to get help. Taranaki mental health student Sacha Mills wants to be the change in her community. And she's far from alone. Student numbers in the social work certificate Mills is completing at Taranaki’s Witt polytech have doubled this year to 105. It is one of a number of qualifications at the institute recording record numbers. The popularity of the social work course is being attributed to a surge in interest in mental h...

+Undoctored Media release from the Tertiary Education Commission Friday 18 December 2020, 01:11 PM 1 minute to Read The Government has expanded the target areas of the Targeted Training and Apprenticeship Fund (TTAF) to include conservation, information technology and additional community support skills. "TTAF was introduced in June 2020 as part of our response to COVID-19 to strengthen the skills pipeline New Zealand needs to support economic recovery. It makes all apprenticeships and a range of targeted training programmes at sub-degree level free for learners," says Gillian Dudge...