Bethlehem Tertiary Institute

BTI is a highly regarded provider of professionally approved Teacher Education and Counselling programmes. Our graduates are thoroughly prepared and qualified for early childhood, primary and secondary teaching roles throughout New Zealand’s diverse education sector, as well as counselling roles in a wide range of settings.

We are a growing community of learners who are motivated by a Christian faith that is meaningful to us and fuels our passion to be agents of positive change.

Our motto is Great Hearts + Minds.

This sums up our dedication to both personal and professional growth; our belief that we can inspire and encourage people to grow holistically as well as academically. Stretching our students toward excellence in their chosen field is a high priority and developing the ‘whole person’ as an in integral part of that process is really important to us.
 

Postal:

 Bethlehem Tertiary Institute
Private Bag 12015
Tauranga

Phone:

 0508 BETHLEHEM

Fax:

 07 5791882

Website:

 www.bethlehem.ac.nz

NZQA Info:

 Visit NZQA Website

Email:

 info@bethlehem.ac.nz

Campus:

 Elder Lane
Bethlehem, Tauranga

Programmes:
  • Diploma of Family Support
  • Graduate Diploma of Family Studies
  • Diploma of Counselling (mixed mode delivery)
  • Bachelor of Counselling
  • Bachelor of Education (Teaching) in Early Childhood Education
  • Bachelor of Education (Teaching) in Primary Teaching
  • Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Early Childhood Education)
  • Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Secondary)
Social Work Degree Approval for BTI
January 2012

As a result of requests from faith-based social work agencies across New Zealand, and in partnership with them, Bethlehem Tertiary Institute (BTI) has developed a Bachelor of Social Work programme that has been given approval by NQZA and the Social Work Registration Board.

Social workers are much in demand in New Zealand and BTI feels uniquely positioned to educate and mentor a new breed of social workers who desire to be God's hands in our world.

The purpose of the Bachelor of Social Work is to prepare passionate social and community workers who follow the call in Micah 6:8 to ‘do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with their God'. Students will gain a deep and rich understanding of this Kingdom-mandated heartbeat and learn how to integrate this into their professional practice, partnering with God to, as one writer put it, “increase the net amount of shalom in the world”.

Social work is about change – transformation not only of individuals, but also of families, communities, systems, societies and even whole countries. BTI believes God desires shalom – peace and wellbeing for His children - and is actively working to put right the disadvantage, injustice and oppression that people and society suffers. Social workers seek to bring change towards greater wellbeing, justice, empowerment and liberation.

The first cohort of students commences study at the end of January 2012.


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