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Allocation priorities for student visa applications
Immigration New Zealand (INZ) has changed the way they allocate international student visa applications from students in New Zealand, so they have more flexibility and can process these applications more efficiently during the summer processing peak.
INZ’s allocation priorities change from time to time to reflect current demands and will be posted on their website. You can view these allocation priorities here.
Tuition fee receipt reminder
When a student is in New Zealand (onshore) and submits an application for a student visa, it is a requirement to provide a tuition fee receipt with the application at the time of submission.
The approval in principle process is not available for students who are in New Zealand. Any onshore application should include evidence a student:
- has paid their tuition fees in full for one year or one programme (whichever is shorter); or
- that they are exempt from paying tuition fees and their education provider has confirmed this.
If the receipt is not provided with the application, then it has an impact on the processing and the application takes longer to be processed. For more information, you can find INZ's Student visa application information sheet for continuing international students here.
International education data
Every year, INZ publish data on the offshore student visa approval rates and application volumes for education agents by market. They also publish the overseas student visa application decision data broken down by country.
Updated data for 2024 has now been published: View this data here
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Busy season for international education in India
The week after Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s trade mission to India, Education New Zealand Manapou ki te Ao (ENZ) hosted the New Zealand – India Education Connect 2025 and flew the flag for higher education in New Zealand at the Asia Pacific Association for International Education Conference 2025 (APAIE).
New Zealand – India Education Connect 2025
ENZ hosted the New Zealand-India Education Connect focused on NZ universities strengthening academic and research partnerships with India. The event coincided with APAIE 2025 and was designed to align with India’s National Education Policy 2020 and support the Viksit Bharat 2047 vision.
H.E Patrick Rata welcoming attendees of the New Zealand-India Education Connect.
The inaugural session at the Connect event served as a valuable platform to provide an update on the recent high-level bilateral engagements between New Zealand and India during the Prime Minister's visit. It also highlighted the continued prominence of education as a key theme across these discussions.
The event started with high-level bilateral updates by New Zealand’s High Commissioner to India, Patrick Rata, followed by an education overview by ENZ’s Chief Executive, Amanda Malu. Immigration New Zealand also attended and provided a market update as well as conducted a workshop with a selection of Indian education agents.
The programme was strategically designed to provide university representatives with expert intelligence and insights to support the development of their India engagement strategies, aligning with the evolving priorities and demands within the Indian context.
Panel discussions featured senior government officials and sector leaders, who shared perspectives on the increasing significance of deepening education sector collaboration between New Zealand and India. They also highlighted the opportunities presented by India’s National Education Policy 2020 to further strengthen these bilateral ties.
Following the New Zealand – India Education Connect programme and ahead of APAIE, ENZ hosted its NZ Networking Reception which was attended by more than 100 guests.
APAIE 2025
Running in tandem with New Zealand-India Education Connect, ENZ coordinated the New Zealand pavilion at the 2025 APAIE Conference, held in New Delhi from 24-28 March.
The pavilion featured 11 NZ institutions including, all eight New Zealand universities alongside representatives from the Southern Institute of Technology, Whitecliffe College, and Ignite Colleges. The pavilion also had in-attendance key representative from Immigration New Zealand to support providers and stakeholders.
This is the first time APAIE has been held in India that resulted in phenomenal engagement from Indian stakeholders, especially coinciding with this year’s theme on ‘Cultivating Global Citizens for the Future: The Higher Education Imperative in the Asia Pacific and Beyond’.
New Zealand featured strongly across eight panels, with ENZ Chief Executive Amanda Malu contributing to three panel discussions on Indigenous Perspectives in the Internationalisation of Higher Education; a regional update from New Zealand and Laos; and National Strategies for International Education: Three Perspectives from Asia-Pacific. The wider New Zealand speakers led critical conversations on international collaboration, indigenous knowledge, and sustainable education practices.
Director of Engagement for India, Jugnu Roy, said the New Zealand pavilion was buzzing across the three days of the conference.
“APAIE 2025 was an incredible opportunity to connect with global colleagues, exchange ideas, and gain fresh perspectives on the future of international education. The conversations offered plenty of inspiration and practical insights to take away,” she said.
APAIE aims to advance education through enabling greater cooperation between institutions to enrich and support international programmes, activities and exchanges; and to promote the value of international education within the Asia-Pacific region.
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Around the world in five
United Kingdom
International education leaders in the UK have expressed concerns about new proposals to place a levy on the income that institutions earn from international student fees.
Global
A new global survey makes it clear that the more restrictive visa policies that have been introduced in leading destinations over the last 18 months continue to have a profound impact on international student mobility.
India
New research reveals that career advancement is the primary motivation for Indian students choosing to study abroad.
Europe
In the wake of Trump’s moves, the EU is hoping to offer a political safe haven for US scientists and academics.
Australia
Following the recent federal election in Australia, the makeup of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s new ministry is beginning to take shape.
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Former international student represents Aotearoa in Ecuador
With his career as an agronomist under way, Juan Pablo came to New Zealand on an MFAT-administered scholarship in 1988, wanting to build on his agricultural qualifications. After taking English courses at Victoria University Wellington Te Herenga Waka, he completed a two-year Diploma in Rural Studies at Massey University Te Kunengaki Pūrehuroa.
His time in New Zealand had such a profound impact on his life that he returned home determined to establish lasting bonds between the two countries. And there is no doubt that his appointment reflects just how much he has achieved.
Juan Pablo says he had dreamed of coming to New Zealand long before he got here. He had read ‘Grass to Milk’, Campbell McMeekan’s 1960s account of New Zealand’s dairying management practices which was well-known among dairy farmers in Ecuador. “I read the book and decided this is the place I want to go.”
Learning from the best
Very few students travelled to New Zealand from Ecuador at that time, most went to the United States for further education, he says. “Many people asked me why I was going to New Zealand, and people still ask me about it today. I tell them I went because I wanted to learn from the best.”
Juan Pablo says he was inspired by his lecturers, especially the late Professor Colin Holmes, a respected researcher, mentor, and advocate of the dairy industry.
“I came from an education system where the teacher held all the knowledge, where it was always black or white. In New Zealand it was totally different because learning was inquiry-based. Critical thinking was the method of developing knowledge.”
He says his experience was transformative on both a personal and professional level.
“The things I saw and learned, the New Zealand way of doing things, and the care and respect people had for each other had a powerful effect on me.”
Over the decades since Juan Pablo’s education experience in Aotearoa, he has built a highly-regarded career in Ecuador, founding and leading primary industry companies, accepting numerous board appointments, representing Ecuador in international free trade agreement negotiations, and being recognised with multiple honours for his contribution to the livestock and dairy sector.
Enduring ties to New Zealand
But he never forgot his ties to New Zealand, working tirelessly to strengthen the bilateral relationship and boost both business and education opportunities. He initially established a company to import agricultural products from New Zealand. When he later secured the role of General Manager of the Cattlemen’s Association, he passed on all his business contacts, and the organisation has been importing electric fencing components and seeds from New Zealand companies ever since.
“In 1988, we brought some cattle in from New Zealand for a breeding programme. Now many farms in Ecuador, including the ones I oversee, have cattle from New Zealand stock. And in the 1990s I helped to establish an education programme with Massey, which saw lecturers come to Ecuador to take short courses in dairy management.”
“When it comes to dairy farming, almost everything I know I learned in New Zealand - pasture management, milk production systems, electric fencing, animal welfare – and farmers have applied these practices successfully in Ecuador,” Juan Pablo says.
“New Zealand is top of mind for every farmer here. When you talk about New Zealand here, everybody knows about its reputation in agriculture. Going to New Zealand is on the wishlist for many people.”
Honoured to represent Aotearoa
Juan Pablo says he was deeply honoured to be asked to be New Zealand’s Honorary Consul in Ecuador, a role which is all about connections and creating opportunities which benefit both countries.
“I am very proud, and I’m happy because I now have the chance to advocate for Aotearoa,” he says. “The better the relationship with New Zealand, the better it is for Ecuador too. We must focus on what we have in common and make the most of it.”
He firmly believes international education is at the heart of relationship-building and collaboration between countries, even more than tourism and business. “You learn the values of a nation through education. Time spent studying in New Zealand will make you a better person.”
“International students will become New Zealand’s ambassadors to the world.”
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Business development
Advice is available to help organisations take advantage of the potential for growth in the international education market.
Organisations can take advantage of the advice and support offered by the following services and support for their sector.
On this page:
SIEBA
The Schools International Education Business Association (SIEBA) aims to provide leadership, increased business capability, greater collaboration and stronger representation for New Zealand schools in the international education sector.
Strategic roadmaps
New Zealand’s international education industry has developed strategic roadmaps to guide its future growth to 2025. The roadmaps contain ‘strategic choices’ and ‘specific actions’ that are key to achieving success.
There are roadmaps for individual sectors as well as an overall roadmap for the industry. Find out more here.
Strategy advice
With extensive experience of teaching, marketing and recruiting international students, ENZ’s business development managers give advice to help organisations shape their international growth strategies.
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Site reading
And that each website and digital resources helps our international education industry reach hundreds of thousands of international students and parents, education agents, education providers and exporters and people involved in education each year. Monthly visitors to Education New Zealand’s (ENZ’s) websites studyinnewzealand.com and educationnz.govt.nz, total 184,036 and 5,826 respectively. In the three weeks that it has been live The Brand Lab has attracted 2,656 visits, and growing.
Across government, international education now features in a number of ways. We’ll take a look at each of these in turn, and then provide a couple of examples of how you can use these resources to help make connections, enhance your marketing and, ultimately, grow your business.
Studyinnewzealand.com The site studyinnewzealand.com replaces newzealandeducated.com and is designed as a place for international students and parents to find information about the unique benefits of studying in New Zealand. Its ultimate purpose is to drive quality traffic to the websites of New Zealand institutions and those of education agents. Visitors to this website can read about what it’s like to learn, live and work in New Zealand, and get practical information on getting started i.e. getting in touch with an institution or contacting an education agent.
The New Zealand Education Story video is a feature of this site.
Educationnz.govt.nz ENZ’s industry website is educationnz.govt.nz and its purpose is to provide you with information, news, research and an event calendar to support your knowledge of trends and opportunities, and upcoming marketing events and activities.
The Brand Lab The Brand Lab is a sub-domain of educationnz.govt.nz and is a veritable treasure trove of easily-accessed tools and resources – including The New Zealand Education Story – you can use to enhance the marketing of your institution, programme, product or service.
New Zealand.com New Zealand education also features prominently – alongside Tourism New Zealand, New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, Immigration New Zealand – on the homepage of newzealand.com, a site managed by Tourism New Zealand.
The purpose of this site is to provide a gateway through which anyone who is interested in finding out more about New Zealand – as a tourist destination, as a place to do business, as a place to live and work and, most significantly for you, a place to study – can find the information they need. The newzealand.com website also has a link to The New Zealand Story.
The New Zealand Story – a film tells the world about the best New Zealand has to offer – can be viewed and downloaded through this site. Education features strongly in The New Zealand Story, particularly in its third chapter ‘Open Minds’.
newzealand.com is delivering hundreds of new visitors daily to studyinnewzealand.com.
The New Zealand Story also has an asset library that provides tools and resources to assist New Zealand exporters in telling a clear and consistent message about New Zealand to their international audiences.
Summary In summary, the site and film that tells the story of New Zealand as a whole are newzealand.com and The New Zealand Story.
The sister site and film to these – those that tell the story of New Zealand education as a whole – are studyinnewzealand.com and The New Zealand Education Story. These sites, along with the tools and resources provided in The Brand Lab, are designed to help you – our international education industry – tell a clear and consistent story of the unique benefits of New Zealand education to your audience. This paves the way for you to follow with the distinctive attributes of your particular education offering.
Providing you with information and news on marketing activities and events, research, trends and opportunities for professional development is ENZ’s corporate website educationnz.govt.nz
ENZ welcomes ideas and feedback on our digital platforms. Please contact Kathryn McCarrison (General Manager Marketing & Channel Development) at Kathryn.McCarrison@enz.govt.nz
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Hawke's Bay pilots regional approach
This follows the development of an international education growth strategy for the region and is expected to achieve growth in the value of international students in the region – up to 25 percent by mid-2017.
ENZ Business Development Manager Mary Camp says, “The pilot is part of ENZ’s Regional Partnership Programme, and will deliver key outcomes from the strategic roadmaps developed by the international education industry in 2014. ENZ is committed to supporting the development and growth of international education in the regions of New Zealand.”
The funding is being used to create a role to implement the Hawkes Bay International Education Strategy. Stephanie Kennard has recently been appointed to that role, working alongside Vicki Berkahn who has led the project through the initial stages. Stephanie says, “The Education Hawke’s Bay initiative will provide schools and institutions alike with the ability to collaborate and create real growth. I am looking forward to working alongside the members and the fantastic institutions they represent.”
The first phase of the pilot will deliver activities including a Japanese agent tour, market research, the translation of marketing material and the set-up of a revenue monitoring framework. It will also scope the development of shared services such as management of value-added homestay packages and adventure education experiences.
Hastings District Council has taken a strong leadership role. Economic and Social Development Manager Steve Breen says, “Progressing the collaborative aspect of regional economic development is something where Hastings District Council can add value. International student attraction is a key project for our region’s economic development.”
Education Hawkes Bay anticipates the business model will be self-sustaining by the end of 2017. ENZ will share successful elements of the model in other regions.
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ENZ makes new friends with Kea
Kea helps New Zealanders living offshore to connect with home and with one another, and to share and use their global experience, knowledge and opportunities. It has recently broadened its network to include “friends of New Zealand”.
ENZ sees Kea as another way to link international students and New Zealand educated alumni around the world – and for them to stay in touch with New Zealand and the wider international Kiwi community long after they have returned to their country.
“The partnership will help to grow our network of alumni – our champions of New Zealand’s Education Story – and will provide a way for all current and former students to stay connected to New Zealand,” according to ENZ’s General Manager Marketing and Channel Development Hannah Lee-Darboe.
“Our alumni are really important for their authentic, word-of-mouth recommendations about studying in New Zealand and how important international education is for cultivating long-term global connections,” according to Hannah.
ENZ will help Kea find people to add to Kea’s network and communicate and engage with this audience via Kea.
“This partnership makes so much sense, Kea’s Chief Executive Craig Donaldson said. “Kea’s global network enables students to stay connected to New Zealand after they leave, while it provides an easy way of interacting with alumni and current international students.”
Kea and ENZ are also partnering to develop an international education version of Kea’s World Class New Zealanders (WCNZ) network in South East Asia. WCNZ is made up of high profile industry leaders and includes the likes of Mark D’Arcy, Director of Creative Solutions at Facebook, and London-based jewellery and accessories designer Amanda Allen, whose work appears in Harpers and Vogue.
Kea and ENZ are currently seeking nominations of high profile New Zealand educated international alumni residing in South East Asia to be a part of this very prestigious network. Please send through nominations (name, what and when they studied, brief resume) to Hannah.lee-darboe@enz.govt.nz by May 15 2015.
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Canterbury launches Strategy Leadership Accord
The Accord represents a commitment to grow the social, cultural and economic value of international education in the region over the next 10 years.
The strategy vision is that Canterbury is a “a globally connected region for international education with education and training that leads to enhanced student opportunities and outcomes with enduring benefits for the community”.
This will be achieved through:
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Strong industry leadership via the Accord
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Building partnership with government, iwi and other sectors
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Building a regional value proposition and strong international partnership in key markets
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Developing flagship programmes in areas of regional strength
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Developing pathways through school, higher education and employment in areas of regional strength
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Enhancing the student experience through developing a regional qual-mark for international education providers
At the launch function this week, Michaela Blacklock, General Manager for Business and Sector Development at Canterbury Development Corporation (CDC) noted:
“CDC believes that Christchurch’s international connectedness is critical to growing a strong economy which contributes to a better quality of life for people living in the region. We recognise both the economic and social benefits to Christchurch and Canterbury from a strong international education sector.”
The Leadership Accord has appointed Murray Strong as the Independent Chairperson, charged with overseeing the implementation of the strategy.
“It is important that we build on the industry cohesion and momentum gained during the post-earthquake period, which may be lost if there is no medium-term strategy to provide focus - the real work starts now.” says Murray Strong.
The strategy development process was funded by Education New Zealand and facilitated by Canterbury Development Corporation, the Christchurch City Council economic development agency.
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Latin America a focus
The education opportunities for New Zealand in the nation of 46 million were highlighted in the Embassy announcement, which came as the Government outlined an update on their trade strategy yesterday.
Broadening New Zealand’s export markets in South America and South East Asia was a key theme of the update of the Business Growth Agenda (BGA) 2015/16.
The BGA is a programme of work that supports the growth of New Zealand businesses by delivering initiatives and policy reforms that help create a more productive and competitive economy. The BGA focuses on six key “ingredients” businesses need to grow: Export markets, innovation, infrastructure, skilled and safe workplaces, natural resources, and capital. Each of these has its own programme of work.
International education is seen as a key pillar in the ‘Export Markets’ work stream in the BGA and the action points for the sector are:
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Expanding the Prime Minister’s Scholarships to Asia to include Prime Minister’s Scholarships to Latin America.
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Using the International Education Growth Fund to support the growth of revenue from education and training delivered offshore.
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Expanding the Education New Zealand Regional Partnership Programme to accelerate the growth of international education regionally.
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Leveraging international alumni linkages to lift the skills of our international workforce in the public and private sector.
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Reviewing ENZ to ensure it continues to be fit for purpose and is well placed to achieve the international education industry’s medium-term goals.
Follow this link to download copies of the Business Growth Agenda: Towards 2025 reports.
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