Congratulations to all our Crown Institute 2011 graduates! Crown students’ family and friends celebrated their successes at the AMI Netball Centre in Northcote on the 16^th of December 2011.

Terry Swanson, Academic Director at Crown, opened the afternoon and welcomed guests to the special occasion.  He spoke about what an achievement it was to be graduating and imparted some words of wisdom to the graduating students,“I believe there are three things that can make you a Triple A graduate… application, attitude and aspiration”.

The guest speaker for the occasion was a recent Crown graduate Samantha Morris. Samantha spoke about her nervousness as a new student and how Crown helped her grow from a young student into a mature working professional.

Samantha is now working for GO Holidays as an Asia Consultant and was awarded the Top Travel Student Award for 2011.

With beaming smiles students went up on stage to receive their Certificates and Diplomas. Some students will go on to further studies while others will be venturing out to find jobs in the industry.

Even though these students have graduated from Crown, our Career Advisor Natalie Tolhopf is here to guide them. “It is important to us at Crown to support and guide our graduates in finding a job. We offer online support as well as one on one career counselling”.

We would like to wish all our graduates all the best for the future. We are sure they will all be very successful in their careers.

Thank you to North Harbour Netball for providing a great venue and to Function Staff for your great hospitality.  Crown Institute is a proud community sponsor of North Harbour Netball.

We are enrolling now for Travel and Tourism, Hospitality and Business courses starting in 2012.  Fill in our pre-enrolment form by clicking here.

 

 

 

At Crown Institute of Studies we believe in giving our students a helping hand in getting them ahead.  In today’s working world work experience is essential in any job! Therefore we offer a diverse range of internships to students, to help them get much needed work experience. Work experience partnered up with the right qualifications will help students  get into their chosen industry.

Here are our internships currently on offer

Business

Crown Institute of studies offers an exciting opportunity for a Business student to gain some work experience in the Accounting Arena!

The lucky student works 3 to 4 hours a week in Crown’s Accounts department!

The student will be using MYOB knowledge to learn practical dada entry and develop filing skills, an essential to any office job.

Travel

Travel Desk

At Crown we have our own Travel and Activities Desk where students can book and find out more information about a range of activities and adventures around New Zealand.

We offer a 3-month internship to a graduating Travel student to run our travel desk. The student will gain experience in customer service, sales and networking.

This is an ideal stepping-stone for a graduating student to gain entry into the Travel industry!  To apply click  here!

 

New Caledonia Tourism

Crown has many strong relationships with the Tourism Industry in particular with New Caledonia Tourism.

In 2006 Crown Institute and New Caledonia Tourism in New Zealand founded the New Caledonia internship/scholarship. Every year one lucky travel student from Crown is awarded the scholarship.

 Part of the internship/scholarship package is work experience at the New Caledonia Tourism office and $1000 towards the students course costs at the completion of their studies.

 

Simon Duffy (New Caldedonia Tourism) with Samantha Morris (2011 scholarship winner)

 

GO Holidays

GO Holidays is the largest wholesaler in New Zealand.  We have a great partnership with this company and a number of our graduates are now working there.

We offer a travel student an exciting opportunity to work at this fantastic and well-known organisation.

This internship is a golden opportunity for a student to gain some excellent work experience at well reputable company and get a taste of what it will be like working in the Travel industry.

 

 

 Kharn Murphy (Crown graduate working at GO Holidays) 

 Intercity

 Intercity is New Zealand’s largest coach transportation network under the country’s premier coach networks of Intercity Coachlines and Newmans Coachlines.

Crown and Intercity have had a longstanding relationship. We have been fortunate enough to secure an internship with this fantastic company.

Students get to experience first hand what it is like to work in a travel call centre, listening in to calls, going on famils, working at Skycity depot and selling tickets.

 

Marketing

Marketing is a big part of the Travel and Tourism industry.  We offer a finishing Travel and Tourism student an opportunity to gain some skills in this discipline. From customer service to liaising with prospective students.

This internship is for a student who does not have any work experience and would like to gain some extra skills to ad to their CV.

This is a 6-week summer internship where the lucky student will be working with Crown’s fun marketing team.

 

Hospitality

Function Staff

Crown and Function staff has teamed up to offer students the opportunity to gain work experience in the hospitality arena.

Through this internship students learn to deal with customers confidently and prove to employers they have up to date and relevant work experience.

Function Staff is recognised as New Zealandʼs most Outgoing & Dynamic staffing source for client event & promotional requirements.

 A lot of our students have gained exceptional experience from working with Function staff.

 

 

Crown Plaza & City Life Hotels

Crown Plaza and City Life are a couple of top notch hotels in Auckland. This is an excellent opportunity for a student who is studying our Hotel course.

Students are places in the house keeping or the food and beverage department. They work alongside supervisors and team leaders.

From this internship students get a real taste of the working environment with in the hotel industry.

This is a fantastic way for students to learn and make some excellent contacts.

For Students who…

• Want to fast-track their studies

• Need to repeat one of the below papers

• Want to complete extra papers

• Need papers to complete NZIM (400, 510 and 530 only)

• Need papers to complete NDHM (any of the below papers are acceptable for this qualification)

Subjects on Offer:

• 400 Accounting Principles*

• 430 Quantitative Business Methods*

• 510 Commercial Law*

• 520 Economics*

• 530 Organisations and Management*

*Minimum class sizes apply

Dates: Wednesday 04 January to Friday 27 January 2012

Times: 9.00am to 2.45pm (3 sessions per day)

Fees:  NZ citizens/permanent resident students $750.00 (Student loan/allowance is available through Studylink)

             International students $1,640.00

Enrolment Deadline: Friday, 02 December at 2.00 pm

Please contact us on 0800 357 316 or info@crown.ac.nz to enrol of for more information.

 

The Lorne Street campus has had a transformation!

Check out some photos on our Facebook page by clicking here or come along to our Open Day on Saturday 12 March 2011, 11am-2pm and see it for yourself!