THIS PROGRAMME IS PENDING NZQA APPROVAL. We have a similar programme which is currently approved. However, we plan to discontinue that version once this improved version is approved. If you want information about the current version, please contact us.
People successfully completing this programme are awarded the New Zealand Diploma of Applied Science (Level 6).
There are three fee statuses. Click here for details.
NZ domestic: $0 (Would be $9540, but provided without fees due to generous funding by the New Zealand Government through the Tertiary Education Commission.)
International: $30,100
Global: Click here for details.
(Varies with electives chosen)
- Keeping flexibility while not being aimless
- Referees
- Anatomy of original research articles
- Biological safety
- Biological safety cabinets
- Career planning
- Centrifuge
- Characteristics of groups of microbes
- Chemical hygiene plan
- Chemical safety
- Chemical spill response
- Chemical storage and labeling
- Chromatography
- Client needs and expectations
- Composition of media
- Compressed gas cylinder safety
- Concentration standards
- Consequences of laboratory mistakes
- Consultation and interpretation by laboratories
- Content of Certificate of Analysis
- Covering letter crafting
- Cryogenic safety
- CV crafting
- Different types of scientific literature
- Dilemmas
- Distillation
- Electrical safety
- Electrophoresis
- Emergency response procedures
- Emergency shower and eyewash stations
- Employment contracts
- Ethical aspects
- Extraction
- Eye and face protection
- Facilities requirements of ISO 17025
- Filtration
- Finding opportunities
- Fire safety
- First aid in laboratories
- General requirements of ISO 17025
- Gold standard methods
- Hazard communication
- Hazardous materials handling
- Hazardous materials transportation
- Hazardous waste disposal
- How journal articles get published
- Human requirements of ISO 17025
- Importance of quality systems of ISO 17025
- Interviewing
- Interviewing
- ISO 17025 topics
- Laboratory access control
- Laboratory decommissioning
- Laboratory equipment safety
- Laboratory ergonomics
- Laboratory fume hoods
- Laboratory hazard assessment
- Laboratory housekeeping
- Laboratory incident reporting
- Laboratory inspection and auditing
- Laboratory safety committees
- Laboratory safety culture
- Laboratory safety equipment
- Laboratory safety signs and labels
- Laboratory safety training
- Laboratory security
- Laboratory security policies
- Laboratory ventilation
- Laboratory waste management
- Laser safety
- Legal aspects
- Microscope types
- Microscopy concepts
- MPN
- Nanomaterial safety
- Overview of getting a science job
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Plate counts
- Preparing samples for microscopy
- Process requirements of ISO 17025
- Professional expectations
- Questions for which ready-made answers should be planned
- Radiation safety
- Radioactive material safety
- Resource requirements of ISO 17025
- Safety data sheets (SDS)
- Searching the specialised literature
- Specialist literature other than journal articles
- Spectrophotometry
- Standards
- Strategy
- Structural requirements of ISO 17025
- Structure of ISO17025
- Taking care of yourself
- Taxonomy
- Terminology for quality systems
- Titration
- Types of journal articles
- Types of media
- Using general literature where appropriate
- Using materials not in English
- Ways of killing microbes
- What results are used for
- Who depends on results
People successfully completing this component will be able to…
- locate, appropriately select and analyse scientific information
- make appropriate judgement s about laboratory safety scenarios
- continue development as a laboratory professional
- perform authentic laboratory work in compliance with laboratory quality measures
- apply understanding of the operating principles and significance of results of selected analyses to solve, and problems, make decisions and consider alternative approaches.
For an explanation about the nature of the following assessments please click here.
- assignment
- verbal follow-up
- attestation
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demonstration of understanding of the programme and general suitability for the study through Real World Education's pre-entry process, and
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recommendation of a Delivery Site willing to host the applicant for the parts of the programme requiring laboratory training, experience and practice, and
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evidence of a range of professional laboratory skills at least typical of someone completing a year of professional laboratory work, and
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for International participation, has a current IELTS (Academic) score of 6.0 or better with no less than 5.5 in writing and reading, and no less than 6.0 in speaking and listening (or evidence of equivalent English proficiency based on other NZQA approved tests)
If you are keen to start before 15 April 2024, please contact us about a similar programme that the Laboratory Technician Professional Programme is replacing. It may be possible for you to be among the last taking that existing programme.
Code for intake: PRO6-4G Start: 15-Apr-2024
Code for intake: PRO6-4J Start: 13-May-2024
Code for intake: PRO6-4M Start: 17-Jun-2024
Code for intake: PRO6-4P Start: 15-Jul-2024
Code for intake: PRO6-4R Start: 19-Aug-2024
Code for intake: PRO6-4T Start: 16-Sep-2024
Code for intake: PRO6-4V Start: 14-Oct-2024
Code for intake: PRO6-4Y Start: 11-Nov-2024