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Appreciating our agents in Viet Nam
The main purpose was to acknowledge the work of Vietnamese agents and thank them for their commitment. This is part of a programme of work to maintain and build our education brand offshore, ahead of the reopening of student visa processing in October 2022.
As well as hearing the latest updates from ENZ and other key education speakers, agents took part in a quiz and brainstorm. This provided some useful market insights into Vietnamese students’ and parents’ demand in a post-Covid world.
We were delighted with the positive feedback from agents about the event, including a renewed commitment to promote New Zealand education. To build on this interest, ENZ is now organising a series of eight workshops themed “The NEW Choices”, to update Vietnamese agents about new programme offerings across sectors.
Other projects underway in this market include a sustainability competition and a scholarship bootcamp, in collaboration with ENZ Recognised Agents based in Viet Nam.
Strong interest in Prime Minister’s Scholarships, now supported by new website
More than 30 group applications were received for the PMSA, and ten for the PMSLA, before applications closed on Monday 16 May 2022 after a two-week deadline extension. The total value of applications was $8.7 million. Decisions will be announced before the end of June 2022, with travel expected to take place in the second half of 2022 and the first half of 2023.
The Prime Minister’s Scholarship programme supports educational experiences in Asia and Latin America for New Zealanders, and the latest round was open for group applications only. Universities, wānanga, institutes of technology and polytechnics, private training establishments, iwi and other educational organisations were able to apply for a programme on behalf of a group of people.
To ensure that a wider range of New Zealanders have access to the benefits of this programme, a new website was launched this month: http://scholarships.enz.govt.nz. The new website aims to help develop broader awareness and understanding of the scholarship for potential individual applicants, breakdown any barriers to participation, encourage diversity of applicants, particularly for rangatahi Māori, and improve people’s experience of participating in the scholarship.
The new website includes a ‘refer a future scholar’ feature. The addition is the result of the mahi of our Kāhui Kaupapa who wanted to acknowledge that often ‘Kāore te kūmara e kōrero mō tōna ake reka’ – the kūmara doesn't speak of its own sweetness. We can now offer an alternative for rangatahi, so they know that people in their community saw them as worthy recipients of the scholarship. The website also offers the opportunity for prospective applicants to subscribe to updates and announcements of upcoming rounds.
Since 2013, the PMSA and PMSLA have enabled more than 2,400 New Zealanders to broaden their horizons through life-changing learning experiences in Asia and Latin America. The scholarships are flexible and offer funding to support short or long-term programmes including study abroad / exchange, internships, postgraduate study, and language programmes.
Brazilian students ready to travel to New Zealand
Academic performance and class attendance were a key focus of the selection process for the students, who are between 14 and 16 years old. They were chosen to represent all regions of the state, which has a population of around 11 million people and an economy with a strong emphasis on agribusiness.
Their trip is scheduled for late July. Students will fly into Auckland, and most will travel on from there to other parts of New Zealand: Rotorua, Napier, Palmerston North, Wellington, Christchurch and Invercargill. They will study in regular classes at New Zealand schools and stay with local families. The goal of the immersion is not only for them to get to experience the New Zealand education system, but also the way of life of New Zealanders, leisure options and New Zealand scenery.

Brazilian students at the presentation of the study abroad programme to New Zealand.

To mark the beginning of the study abroad process, the teenagers participated in a two-day orientation session in Curitiba, the capital city of Paraná state. At the event, they received information for their trip: how to prepare their luggage, necessary documents, items that can be taken, what to do when arriving in New Zealand, among other tips.

(l to r) Ana Laura, Isabela Camargo, Gabriela Martins and Maria Eduarda are ready to study in New Zealand.

Friends Maria Eduarda (14), Isabela Camargo (15), Gabriela Martins (15) and Ana Laura (14) paid close attention. They have never travelled abroad and are very excited about the chance to study in New Zealand. Maria Eduarda commented that she wants to “make many friends and keep in touch with them even after returning to Brazil”. Isabela hopes to “find a totally different culture, even school I think will be different”.

For Gabriela, the goal is “to learn a lot about New Zealand culture, especially about the Māori. I want to learn skills that will really prepare me for the future, as well as improve my English language.” Ana summarises her expectations for the trip: “I think I will return to Brazil with a new perspective on life.”

ENZ’s Market Development Manager in Brazil, Bruna de Natale, presents information on New Zealand education to students.

Bruna de Natale, Education New Zealand's market development manager in Brazil, joined the event to present information on New Zealand education for the Brazilian students. She highlighted the quality of New Zealand’s educational institutions, their focus on useful skills for the future and explained how they work to prepare global citizens able to tackle issues such as sustainability, human rights and development.

The New Zealand schools that will be hosting the Brazilian students are: Central Southland College, Freyberg High School, Havelock North High School, Howick College, Hutt Valley High School, Kapiti College, Oxford Area School, Paraparaumu College, Rangiora High School, Selwyn College, and Western Heights High School.

This programme is fully funded by the Paraná Government, through Paraná’s Secretary of Education.
Reconnecting at ICEF ANZA 2022
Education New Zealand Manapou ki te Ao attended the conference, alongside Immigration New Zealand and Kiwi education providers.

This was the largest ICEF ANZA event in its 15-year history. Among the conference's close to 500 in-person participants were 183 education agents representing 61 countries. The top five countries represented at the conference were Colombia, India, Viet Nam, Nepal, and Brazil.
Agents at the event demonstrated a particular interest in New Zealand and Australia, and they were keen to reconnect with New Zealand education providers and promote New Zealand to prospective students.

(l to r) Geneviève Rousseau Cung, ENZ's Partnerships Manager, Brett Blacker, CEO, English Australia and Martijn van de Veen, VP Business Development, ICEF during their panel discussion.

Geneviève Rousseau Cung, ENZ's Partnerships Manager, was a guest panellist during the opening plenary session 'Study Destinations: Australia and New Zealand back in the game'. ICEF have released a podcast based on this panel discussion, which you can listen to here: https://lnkd.in/d5cMpwfm
Innovation at Festival for the Future
This annual event showcases leadership and innovation, and seeks to amplify rangatahi and minority voices, to demonstrate leadership around topics such as climate action, diversity and inclusion, and sustainable development.
More than 30 speakers took part, attracting more than 1,000 participants across New Zealand, as well as online participants around the world.
Education New Zealand Manapou ki te Ao (ENZ) promoted the Prime Minister's Scholarships for Asia and Latin America and ENZ's mahi in global citizenship more broadly.

ENZ's space on the expo floor at Festival for the Future

Former Prime Minister’s Scholar for Asia, Young New Zealander of the Year, and co-founder of Aotearoa’s first Māori owned electricity company, Ezra Hirawani, was one of the opening keynote speakers. Ezra spoke about the importance of global citizenship, what it means for him as a Māori New Zealander and how it can be used to address the issues of our lifetime.
In addition to partnering with Inspiring Stories Trust as a sponsor of the Festival, ENZ supported the Global Impact Award. Courtney Davies, a young New Zealander leading environmental programmes for young people across New Zealand and Africa, with a focus on sustainable change and action, received this year’s award.

Left to right: Allan Chan, Michelle Chen and Kurt Weston - three of the Prime Minister's Scholarship alumni who joined us at Festival for the Future to share their scholarship experience with others.

ENZ's Karl Wixon delivers Hono-ki-te-Ao - Global Citizenship from a te ao Māori perspective, ENZ's workshop at Festival for the Future. Throughout the Festival weekend, Karl ran the workshop four times to packed out audiences.

ENZ's Jordana Zhu (centre) and former Prime Minister's Scholar Allan Chan (centre right) engage with attendees at ENZ's expo space.

Courtney Davies (right), winner of the 2022 Global Impact Award, speaks on the main stage during a panel discussion on the final day of the Festival.

Some of ENZ's wider team at the Festival. Left to right: Carla Rey Vasquez, Seb Klinkum, Nera Leitupo, Tereska Thornton, Marina Wilmerstadt, Michelle Chen and Nick McNeil.
NZ Centre agreement with Peking University renewed
Established in 2007, the New Zealand Centre promotes strong academic engagement between New Zealand and China across diverse fields and builds mutual understanding between both countries. It is supported by our Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and by Education New Zealand Manapou ki te Ao (ENZ).
A special event to mark the signing was jointly held at Peking University and at New Zealand's Parliament on 27 July 2022, hosted by Education Minister Chris Hipkins. Chinese Vice Minister of Education Tian Xuejun provided a speech, while New Zealand’s Ambassador to China, Clare Fearnley, took the opportunity to thank ENZ for funding migratory birds research, announcing this initiative during the ceremony. Around 50 guests, including former New Zealand ambassadors to China and China experts from New Zealand’s universities, attended the Wellington event.
Te Wiki o te reo Māori - Māori Language Week 2022
The Ikubunkan Institute of Education in Tokyo facilitates a one-year study abroad programme for students to attend high schools in New Zealand, Australia and Canada. Pre-COVID, Ikubunkan sent 100 students annually to NZ for three terms at 100 public schools.
Because students have learned kapa haka/waiata at different schools they have developed their own Ikubunkan’s style of kapa haka when practising as one school.
Ikubunkan students performed haka for the former Māori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell, who visited the school in 2016. They also performed haka for the Prime Minister at the NZ Embassy Tokyo, when she visited Japan during the RWC in 2019.
You can read more from the full Daily Mail story here.
Appreciating our education agents in Japan
JAOS stands for Japan Association of Overseas Studies and is a peak body for Japanese education agents. JAOS President Yukari Kato, Councillor Chairman Yasuo Sone, and Executive Secretary Tatsuo Hoshino and other members attended the event, which was hosted by Education New Zealand Manapou ki te Ao (ENZ) in partnership with the New Zealand Embassy in Tokyo and Air New Zealand.
New Zealand’s Ambassador to Japan, Hamish Cooper, said education had played a key role in bilateral relations between Japan and New Zealand over the past 70 years, and this was highlighted in the successful visit by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern earlier this year.
Yukari Kato, who is also Executive Vice President of Ryugaku Journal,spoke fondly about her experiences living in New Zealand. She also welcomed the opportunity to work with ENZ to feature sustainability-related courses and degrees offered by New Zealand tertiary institutions in Ryugaku Journal Magazine’s September issue.
Misa Kitaoka, ENZ’s Director of Education based in Tokyo, says this event will be followed by a series of networking events in October 2022, to build on the positive brand that New Zealand has in Japan and connect Japanese stakeholders with New Zealand regions and education providers.
Prior to Covid-19, JAOS members sent around 6,000 students to New Zealand each year, mostly to secondary schools, followed by English language schools.
Wide-ranging masterclasses in Vietnam
“We were very pleased at the interest shown by the Vietnamese students,” says Van Banh, Market Manager at Education New Zealand Manapou ki te Ao (ENZ).
“Some of the students had previously taken part in other events with us, which shows the level of interest they have in New Zealand.
“Each session included a Q&A session with the lecturers about undergraduate programmes at their institution, and an opportunity for us to highlight the upcoming New Zealand education fairs at the end of October.”
Artificial intelligence, chemical engineering, and sheep milk cheese were among the many and diverse topics covered by 19 academics across the 21 masterclasses, which were offered to students from nine different school chains across Vietnam.
Latin America masterclasses showcase New Zealand education
From 25-26 October 2022, the Education New Zealand Manapou ki te Ao team in Latin America hosted the second edition of the Latin America Masterclasses, an online event that brings Latin American audiences closer to New Zealand universities and showcases the quality of a Kiwi education. There were more than 1700 registrations, and more than 1000 people joined during the six live broadcasts.
Centred around ‘Education for sustainable development’ as the main theme, the event brought together researchers from different subject areas to deliver classes focused on the importance of sustainability for the development of society. Lecturers from Massey University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Waikato, Auckland University of Technology and Lincoln University participated.
The goal of the initiative was to highlight the quality of education in New Zealand, explore key themes in sustainability, and demonstrate how a New Zealand education prepares students for the future. To promote the event, ENZ carried out an extensive communications campaign on social media, press and trade channels, focusing on countries such as Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Argentina. The campaign shared key messages about a Kiwi education with thousands of people across Latin America.

Dr Christian Schott of Victoria University of Wellington discussed sustainable tourism development

Dr Silvia Serrao-Neumann of University of Waikato talked about what makes cities more liveable

Attendees were able to learn why New Zealand education is considered a world leader in promoting independent thinking – through practical and collaborative teaching – with an emphasis on issues such as environmental preservation and sustainable business innovation.
The students also learnt about the concept of kaitiakitanga, which represents taking care of people and place, preserving traditional knowledge for the benefit of future generations.

The event's production team at work during the live broadcasts

All classes were broadcast in English, with simultaneous translation into Portuguese and Spanish. Participants were able to chat with ENZ staff and send through their questions for the speakers to answer live.
Following months of preparation for the event, the masterclasses were broadcast on ENZ’s own online platform in Latin America. The site is available to Latin American audiences and features the 2022 and 2021 Masterclasses. There are plans to transform the site in the future, into a permanent hub of events and content on New Zealand education for Latin America audiences.