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Open Day: Get ready to study!

Thursday 30 January 2025, 3pm - 6pm

Discover how to get the skills you need for the job you want at Open Day!

Come along and explore more than 150 career-enhancing study options, join a ‘walk and talk’ tour with tutors, and learn about our comprehensive student support services and the Ara student experience.

Ready to enrol?

Bring your ID (birth certificate or passport) and we can help you get it all sorted.

Already enrolled?

Come say hi, check out where you’ll be studying and get a feel for campus life.

City campus – what to expect

  • Free parking is available in the Barbadoes Street car park
  • Signs will guide you to the main Open Day space (in the Whareora Sports Hall, W Block)
  • In the main Open Day space, you can explore study options, join a ‘walk and talk’ session and attend an info session about what to expect when you study at Ara

City campus and accommodation tours

City campus tours leave from the meeting point in the Whareora.
20 minute tour: 3pm | 3:30pm | 4pm | 4:30pm | 5pm

Ōtautahi House student accommodation tours leaving from the meeting point in the Whareora.
30 minute tour: 3:30pm | 4:30pm | 5pm

City campus Walk & Talks

Meet in the Whareora and listen for the announcement that your session is about to start

3:30pm

  • Sport Science, Health Promotion, Exercise and Nutrition
  • Art and Design
  • Engineering
  • Hairdressing and Barbering
  • Business
  • Hospitality and Food & Beverage - U Block Tour
  • Sustainability and Outdoor Education

4:00pm

  • Osteopathy
  • Social Work, Health and Wellbeing
  • Music Arts
  • Construction Management and Quantity Surveying
  • Beauty Therapy
  • Cookery and Bakery
  • Te Reo Māori and Pacific Studies

4:30pm

  • Animal Management, Vet Nursing
  • New Zealand Broadcasting School
  • Architecture and BIM
  • Hairdressing and Barbering
  • Massage Therapy
  • Beauty Therapy
  • Hospitality and Food & Beverage - U Block Tour
  • Early Childhood

5:00pm

  • Lab Science
  • NASDA
  • Digital Technologies 
  • Interior Design
  • Cookery and Bakery
  • CELTA

Woolston trades campus – what to expect

  • The Woolston campus is where Trades programmes are delivered
  • Free parking is available off Sullivan Avenue
  • Signs will guide you to the main Open Day space (Ōpāwaho, VF Block)
  • In the main Open Day space you can explore Trades study options, join a ‘walk and talk’ session and find out about student services

Trades campus Walk & Talks

Meet in the main Open Day space (Ōpāwaho, VF Block) and listen for the announcement that your session is about to start

30 minute tour: 3:30pm | 4pm | 4:30pm | 5pm

Timaru campus – what to expect

  • The Timaru campus is located on Arthur Street, Timaru
  • Signs will guide you to the main Open Day space (the Student Lounge)
  • In the main Open Day space you can explore study options, join a ‘walk and talk’ session and find out about student services

3:00pm

  • Pre-Health
  • Nursing

3:30pm

  • Creative
  • Food and Hospitality
  • Hairdressing and Beauty
  • Early Childhood
  • English Language
  • Trades

4:00pm

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Nursing

4:30pm

  • Pre-Health
  • Creative
  • Food and Hospitality
  • Hairdressing and Beauty
  • Early Childhood
  • English Language
  • Trades

5:00pm

  • Health and Wellbeing
Christchurch Registration Timaru Registration

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Three locations:

City campus, Madras Street

 

Woolston campus, Ensors Road

 

Timaru campus, Arthur Street