Students from six Wanganui secondary schools have signed up to U-Skills through UCOL.
A total of 41 U-Skills students come from Wanganui High School, Wanganui Collegiate School, Wanganui City College, Cullinane College, St Dominic's College and Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu - The Correspondence School.
Fourteen of those students are in the U-Skills Hospitality programme at the Whanganui UCOL campus.
Twenty-five students from Wanganui commute daily to Palmerston North and attend classes with students from secondary schools around the wider UCOL region on a range of programmes; construction, health, hair, electrical, beauty and fashion, automotive, applied engineering, Mechanical engineering, and graphics and design.
U-Skills Central Schools Academy Manager Jacqui Phillips said more school students than ever before were taking up the opportunity to gain extra credits towards NCEA and tertiary qualifications through the U-Skills Central Schools Academy at UCOL, which runs in partnership with local secondary schools.