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• Saying it with socks

  Back in May, we reported that Lincoln University had committed to providing international students with a parcel of hand-knitted woolly socks, pineapple lumps and a personal letter ahead of their arrival.

  These photos show that those socks have been a big hit!

  Lincoln’s International and Student Engagement Director Dee Coleman says that the university receives international students from over 60 countries each year, with some coming unprepared for a New Zealand winter down South.  To help them stay warm, Lincoln started the project to provide students with handmade woolly socks.

   “When we looked at our source countries, we realised that a lot of our students hail from warm climates and although intrigued by a Kiwi winter, can often come unprepared.”

  “Our aim is to keep them warm with some good, old-fashioned Kiwi hospitality, and what better way than with some homespun and hand-knitted South Island woolly socks.”

  The socks are hand-knitted by a group of Darfield spinning and knitting enthusiasts, headed up by neighbours Pip Anderson and Ruth Buttle. They have committed to producing up to 40 pairs of hand-knitted socks a year for the university, destined for locations all around the world.

  Retired from a life of farming in the district, Ruth still spins her own wool despite no longer having a dedicated flock of black sheep for the purpose. She buys wool, cards it and spins it into double ply wool. It takes a minimum of two hours to spin one ball of wool.

  Pip says they are aiming to keep the colours neutral, with splashes of colour so that they look natural and hand made.

  Ruth says spinning and knitting are still popular pastimes for rural New Zealand women and that projects like this are an excellent opportunity to get together. 

  

• US students experience tikanga Māori on the high seas

  Staff and students from the University of Auckland and the Auckland University of Technology enjoyed a day out with local Māori tourism operators Waka Quest Tours and Te Haerenga, which included sailing on the waka Haunui to Motutapu Island where they tasted a delicious hāngī and did some exploring.

  

  ATEED’s International Product Development Manager, Keri Edmonds, says, “This sort of activity is designed to enhance the international student experience. A key focus for our team is to raise the awareness of our cultural offering to international students, and provide greater opportunity for them to connect with Auckland’s people and landscapes.”

  “While it’s still early days for this pilot project, it was great to have the opportunity to test out some ideas, which was made possible by funding support from Education New Zealand’s Regional Partnership Programme.”

  

  ATEED’s Māori Tourism Development Manager, Koro Carmen joined Keri on the day and commented, “It was an incredible day of engaging with locals, taking part in tikanga Māori activities and exploring some of Auckland’s iconic landscapes. This is a great example of Māori operators connecting and collaborating with our colleagues to enhance the visitor experience. We were even lucky enough to see several of the endangered takahē wandering around the island!”

• Joint initiative supports school group visits

  To make the most of every opportunity to grow international education in schools across the country, Education New Zealand (ENZ) and the Schools International Business Association (SIEBA) have established a ‘clearing house’ for school student group visits.

  There is increasing interest from such groups in visiting New Zealand, particularly from Japan, China, Thailand and Korea. Schools aren’t always able to accommodate these visits however, so ENZ and SIEBA are working together to channel the enquiries through a clearing house that aims to say ‘yes’, as a starting point, to any request. The clearing house then works behind the scenes with its members to identify schools that are keen (and have the capacity) to host, determine appropriate pricing for the visit, and ultimately improve the experience of, and bring efficiencies to, group visits to New Zealand.

  ENZ is promoting the SIEBA clearing house service to its in-market networks, including agents and schools who are considering New Zealand as a destination for school group visits.

  The service is another ‘value add’ by SIEBA and is free to its members. If you are a school (irrespective of whether or not you are a SIEBA member) that receives requests to host a group but is unable to, ENZ asks that you forward the request on to SIEBA. For more information on the clearing house please contact groups@sieba.nz

  In the 17 February issue of E-News, we let you know about the Ministry of Education’s new online form for state and state-integrated schools to make it easier to register visiting groups of international students. Find out more about this here.

• JJL China visits New Zealand to discuss international student recruitment strategies

  Senior representatives from JJL China, including their Beijing HQ President Mr Yanmin Zhu, will meet with New Zealand institutions from a range of education sectors in the wider Christchurch and Wellington regions. Grant McPherson, Education New Zealand’s Chief Executive, says the visit is the first of four inbound agents trips organised to improve connections between industry, agents and markets.

  “Loyal and high-quality agents play an important role in New Zealand’s international education industry. ENZ is hosting these trips to build on our valued relationships and explore further opportunities for cooperation aligned to our marketing campaigns.”

  Kaye Le Gros, ENZ’s Channel Development Manager with responsibility for agents, says JJL were especially keen to travel to and show their support for Christchurch.  While there, the delegation will visit Burnside High School, the University of Canterbury and Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology. They’ll take a tour of the Re:Start container mall and learn about plans to rebuild Christchurch’s city centre.

  The visit will conclude with a meeting to discuss a two-year strategic plan for JJL China and New Zealand. Agents from India, Indonesia, Thailand and Korea arrive in New Zealand throughout May and June. As well as meeting with education representatives, visiting delegations will hear from New Zealand Qualifications Authority, Immigration New Zealand and Ministry of Education staff.

• NZIDRS scholarship students attend valuable workshop

  Apart from being a great opportunity for these students to get to know one another, and see a bit more of New Zealand, it was also a valuable opportunity for us to learn more about what motivated them to come to New Zealand and how the experience has matched up to their expectations. We also were able to provide them with answers to some of their questions, such as work rights and visa queries.
  
  The feedback is being collated and will be available through Universities New Zealand.
  
  ENZ has also unearthed some marketing gold amongst the group and will be keeping in touch with them so that they can tell their great personal stories about our education system in promotional material and at events.
  
  It was a productive and enjoyable day. One of the students surprised everyone with his impromptu viola performance of Bach and then invited all to watch him play in a jazz band in Wellington on Sunday night. Many took the opportunity to stay on for the weekend and some new friendships were made.
  
  ENZ plans to hold similar events every three years or so to ensure each student is contacted once during their tenure in New Zealand.

  

  Above: The group of international PhD students that participated in the NZDRS workshop (absent Justin Horn)

• Education Southland: The power of collaboration

  Over the last five years they have achieved a 250 percent increase in international student enrolments and in 2012 there was a 16 percent increase in international students enrolments in Southland.

  Read more here.

• Jovem Nerds hitting the right spot in Brazil and New Zealand

  Every semester the Jovem (or 'Young') Nerds travel to a new part of the world giving viewers the inside guide to local 'nerd' culture.

  In this trip the Nerds promoted New Zealand as an English language destination to their large youth audience, and showcased some of the best that our tourism industry has to offer.

  While here, the Nerds published on Twitter and Instagram and have, since returning to Brazil, published two video blogs on YouTube, which have received more than 250,000 views collectively. There have been 550,000 downloads of the Nerdcast and 600,000 views of the videos released to date.

  Traffic from Brazil to ENZ's student website increased by 125% for the month of June, and English language schools featured in the videos have reported an increase in traffic to their websites – one school received their usual monthly traffic in one day.

  Five videos will be posted in total.

  ENZ is looking to identify key opinion leaders in other priority markets to replicate this highly-successful awareness-raising campaign.

  View the New Zealand highlights of the Jovem Nerds' trip on their blog. 

• Strategic famils identify opportunities

  “New Zealand is a great environment for study. Not too crowded, not too quiet, just right”. That’s the view of an Indonesian agent who recently attended one of ENZ’s familiarisation tours. 

  In May and June Education New Zealand (ENZ) hosted four inbound agent visits with a view to increasing the number of international students recruited to New Zealand by agents.

  Thirty-seven agents from five countries visited 33 campuses and schools around New Zealand.

  Kaye Le Gros, ENZ’s Channel Development Manager with responsibility for agents, says the familiarisation tours and strategic visits had three objectives.

  “We wanted to build agent relationships and awareness of agent barriers within government agencies and institutions; we wanted to collect base data on individual agents’ student numbers and their opinion on barriers to growth; and we wanted to showcase successful alumni, New Zealand employers recruiting international staff and possible employment outcomes for international students.”

  “The familiarisation and strategic tours were very successful in that respect, but they’ve also left us all with some food for thought. We collated the feedback that was collected during the visits so you can read about the issues raised by other agents, and the way ENZ is responding or intends to respond to certain issues in line with our strategic plans.”

  Download a copy of the summary report

• Introducing new offshore staff

  Welcome to Education Manager Shelly Xu, who is based in Shanghai, and Market Development Manager Dinh Duong, who is based in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). 

  

  Shelly Xu has joined Education New Zealand’s China team as of 2 September and arrives to the role with more than 10 years of experience at Immigration New Zealand’s (INZ) Shanghai Branch, where she built up a concrete understanding not only of visa policy and settings, but also of the New Zealand- China international education landscape. 

  “We are really thrilled to have Shelly on board and she brings invaluable strengths to this role,” says Regional Director – Greater China Alexandra Grace.

  “Shelly’s appointment to this newly created “Education Manager” position will enable better identification and uptake of growth opportunities, as well as better support to industry, in this key region of the China market”. 

  Shelly’s involvement with industry through her student visa responsibilities led to a desire to work for Education New Zealand. “Through INZ I learnt about the high quality of New Zealand education and found my passion and strong interest in promoting New Zealand education to more international students”, she says.

  Get in touch with Shelly when you are visiting Shanghai; or would like to update Shelly on your business or institution’s activities in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Anhui (Shelly’s areas of responsibility, working to the Regional Director).  Her email address is shelly.xu@enz.govt.nz.  Shelly is a part of the New Zealand Consulate-General effort in Shanghai, and will be based with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) at New Zealand Central.

  

  Dinh Duong is the new Market Development Manager in Viet Nam, reporting to Izak Human, Regional Director – South East Asia.

  Dinh will be working to promote New Zealand education in Viet Nam through fairs, events, exhibitions, meetings, workshops and other activities. She’ll be supporting New Zealand education providers and business by providing insights into the Viet Nam market, researching and working to establish high quality partnership opportunities for institutions, and keeping on top of developing education trends in Viet Nam.

  Dinh joins Education New Zealand with four years’ experience in the education sector, having worked for a big English language provider as well as the British Council in Viet Nam. In addition to speaking English and Vietnamese, Dinh speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, and Chaozhou Chinese dialects.

  Get in touch with Dinh when you are visiting HCMC; or would like to update her on your business or institution’s activities in Viet Nam.  Her email address is dinh.duong@enz.govt.nz, and she works alongside NZTE staff at the Consulate-General office in HCMC.

   

• Study in New Zealand brochure

  The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) is developing a suite of language translations to promote NCEA study in New Zealand. Alongside the English language version, Korean, Chinese, Thai and German translations are available. The translations feature NCEA student success stories and the future study plans of these students. Japanese and Spanish translations will also be available by October 2013.

  The brochures can be downloaded from the NZQA website (see links below) and free copies can be requested by contacting the NZQA Communications Team at coms@nzqa.govt.nz

  http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/studying-in-new-zealand/secondary-school-and-ncea/

  http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/about-us/publications/nzqa-brochures/