Telford Rural Polytechnic

Telford Rural Polytechnic offers a variety of training paths for beekeepers.

Telford is New Zealand's leading provider of rural, land-based courses, which includes beekeeping.

You can get more details on the institution and their courses from their web site, or you can write to Dr David Woodward.

The Telford Advanced Certificate in Apiculture

A 38 week full-time course. You can enrol anytime and start at the beginning of any of the four terms.

A two year correspondence course. You can enrol anytime and start anytime.

Up to one year correspondence and a one month block course at Telford. You can enrol anytime but the block course is usually held in October.