Carpentry General
Learn modern carpentry from blueprint to build. Our one year programme blends on campus theory and practical workshops with an industry attachment, finishing with a trade test and a clear path into the workforce.
Course Overview
The Carpentry General programme prepares you for site-ready work in framing, structures, and finishing. Intakes run in January and July. Semester 1 combines classroom learning with hands-on labs. Semester 2 is an industrial attachment capped by a trade test. With rolling intakes at CATD, exams run in June and November, and graduations in April and September. Graduate ready for apprentice carpenter and entry level construction roles.
Tuition & Fees
This new program is designed to make CATD training more affordable while ensuring core support remains in place. If you are not employed after completing your training, you won’t be required to begin repayments until you secure a job.
Fee Structure
- Semester 1 ……………………… FJD$3,075.00
- Semester 2 ……………………… FJD$1,500.00
- Total ……………………………….. FJD$5,075.00
Subjects & Modules
- Safely Dismantle and Remove a Non-Load-Bearing Wall
- Apply safe working practices in the workplace
- Demonstrate communication skills in a workplace
- Carry out preliminary work for construction on site.
- Set out buildings on site.
- Construct sub-floor framing and flooring on site.
- Erect scaffold up to five metres on site.
- Install exterior and interior joinery on site.
- Install tie down and fixers on site.
- Construct formwork footings, floor and walls up to 1.2 metres on site.
- Transport, place, finish and cure concrete on site.
- Use adhesives and sealants on site.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the construction of pile foundations.
- Excavate and prepare for footings and slab on ground.
- Fabricate and place re-enforcing steel on site.
- Industrial Workplacement
Where could this programme take you?
Build core skills in plan reading, measurement, framing, formwork, and safe tool use. After on-campus training and an industry placement, you’ll sit the trade test and graduate the following year. Typical pathways include apprentice carpenter, residential construction, and maintenance roles, with progression to advanced trade qualifications.
