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• Beware of phone scam targeting visa holders in New Zealand

  The scam states the call is coming from 'The Immigration Bureau' saying there is a 'serious problem with your visa'. The call then prompts recipients to press different numbers for English or Chinese services. 

  Please be aware that this is not a genuine call from Immigration New Zealand. 

  If you or someone you know receives this call, do not engage any further and hang up the call.  

  New Zealand visa holders – including international students – receiving this call and needing reassurance on their current visa situation can call Immigration New Zealand’s Service Centre to discuss any visa matters directly. 

  Read this article to learn what to do if you, or someone you know are targeted by this phone scam. 

  Recent Immigration phone scam | Immigration New Zealand

• Marketing toolkits

  On this page are links to a number of toolkits that you may find helpful as you look to market your education institution to international students. 

  Also, included are some toolkits to help you raise the profile and benefits of international education here in New Zealand. 

  Digital Boost

  This is a free self-directed online learning platform, packed with short videos, live events and expert advice to help you grow your business and thrive in today's digital world. https://digitalboost.business.govt.nz/s/?language=en_NZ

  NZ Story Toolkit

  On this website, you will find free resources including images, footage, brand videos, infographics, presentations, research and how-to-guides to promote New Zealand offshore. New Zealand Story | New Zealand Story Group (nzstory.govt.nz)

  Social Licence Toolkit

  Check out ENZ's communications toolkit that helps you tell stories about the benefits of international education to New Zealanders. The significant impacts of COVID-19 mean international education needs increased public support to rebuild and recover, so it can help our country to do the same. By using unified messaging and telling shared stories, we can create a new international education story that captures the hearts and minds of the New Zealand public. Communicating the benefits of international education - toolkit | ENZ IntelliLab

  Brand Lab

  The ENZ Brand Lab is a rich source of images, videos and other marketing tools to help our industry partners promote New Zealand education. Home | Education NZ Brand Lab | The ENZ Brand Lab

• Sign up to the Immigration New Zealand International Education email

  People working with the international education sector can sign up to receive emails from Immigration New Zealand with information and updates on international education and immigration matters. 

  These emails are aimed at education providers and offshore agents acting for students but may be of interest to others involved with the international education sector. 

  Subscribe to updates & newsletters | Immigration New Zealand 

• EdTech famil programme provides eyes on New Zealand for innovation

  The programme included visits to Singapore, Viet Nam and Indonesia by a New Zealand delegation that included nine companies. The nine companies had a diverse range of education expertise, products and services from cutting edge Neuroscience for early childhood education to delivering TV-style drama series for English language education young adults.  Six core companies participated across the three counties - Language fuel, Neurofrog, Chasing time English, StepsWeb, Jix Reality, and PipiLearning, while three additional companies already in the regions  Writers' toolbox,Komodo wellbeing and Kami, joined the Singapore programme for specific elements. 

  The programme included meetings with the Ministries of Education of all three countries, specifically to understand the digital adoption and education roadmaps of each. Singapore shared their Transformation of education technology masterplan 2030 as a capability multiplier for educators and learners, and Viet Nam shared their focus on and investment in technology and management systems and using education technology to build the human potential of their citizens. Indonesia shared their Super App which allows for their 646.2 thousand schools, 4.2 million teachers and lecturers and 71 million students to all benefit from the large-scale acceleration of an economy moving at pace with a firm policy that ‘no one is left behind’. 

  Alana Pellow, ENZ’s Business Development Manager, led the delegation and said that the programme was carefully put together to ensure the visit was as much about showcasing New Zealand’s expertise and innovation in EdTech as it was to learn about what other countries and leaders in this space are doing.  

  “Across the three countries, the EdTech companies had the opportunity to meet and visit education providers from schoolteachers and leaders, vocational education providers and universities to education enrichment centers. They also heard from New Zealand business leaders and government agencies in each region, as well as had briefings and networking with local EdTech owners to gain a deep understanding of the economic and EdTech landscapes in each country. 

  “The public, private and enrichment education landscapes, which offer significant opportunity for EdTech’s, was a great eye opener particularly in Early Childhood Education (ECE), English language, literacy and English language teacher’s space.  

  “For example, in Viet Nam it is not uncommon for parents to spend 30% of their income on education – including after school enrichment education such is the ambition of parents for their children,” said Alana. 

  The private school market across all three markets is viewed as particularly significant for New Zealand. During the visit, it was noted by a number of diverse education related professionals how the New Zealand EdTech group were subject matter experts with education specific capabilities and expertise across many areas from linguistics, literacy, English language, teaching, academic R&D and collaboration with recognised and respected global experts such as – Oxford University Press, Oxford University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, National University of Singapore, Institute of Technolgy Education and the University of Auckland. 

  Interest in New Zealand’s Education Technology was picked up by the local press in Indonesia and Viet Nam, with Viet Nam in particular seeing 17 stories feature across its various media channels. This has provided valuable visibility of New Zealand’s innovation and expertise in digital education across a wide education subsector value base from ECE and K-14 to R&D at tertiary level. Positive leads have followed and the founder and CEO of SIS and Inspirasi schools, which has schools across Indonesia, South Korea, Myanmar, and India, has already been in touch with two of the NZ EdTech companies to explore future collaboration. 

  

  Meeting with Politeknik Negeri Jakarta (VET) Indonesia.

  

  ENZ’s EdTech delegation meeting with Mr. Nguyen Bao Quoc, Deputy Director (Digital Transformation), and colleagues at the HCMC Department of Education & Training, Ho Chi Mihn City, Viet Nam.

  The delegation also attended the EDUtech Asia Policy Summit in Singapore where education, education policy makers and education technology solution providers came together from across Southeast Asia. Highlights included:

  1. The pace and scale at which many SEA countries are upskilling and shifting their policy and philosophy to equip their educators, citizens and systems to be meaningfully productive.
  2. That digital literacy training is not just the domain of learners.  Educators also need high quality digital training, materials and resources. 
  3. Artificial Intelligence is forcing a rethink on everything and in assessments, what do we care about assessing? Knowledge attainment or the deep skills for being human?  
  4. Partnership is hard but offers competitive advantage and ‘’success’’ when human skills are done well, and many global universities are doing partnership well and reaping the rewards. 

  Any New Zealand EdTech and Education publisher companies interested in finding out more about the SEA market can contact Alana Pellow - alana.pellow@enz.govt.nz 

  

  ENZ’s EdTech delegation meeting with Mr. Nguyen Bao Quoc, Deputy Director (Digital Transformation), and colleagues at the HCMC Department of Education & Training, Ho Chi Mihn City, Viet Nam.

• From the CE: A monumental year

  Tēnā koutou katoa,

  December already! Where did the past 12 months go?

  The good news is that the effort that you have all put into this sector, that we are all so passionate about, has delivered results. My team tell me that enrolments for the first eight months of 2023, and the 12 months since the borders opened, have almost topped 60,000 (59,306 to be exact) and that the number of visa applications is much higher. From where we were when the borders opened this is significant and tangibly real, positive progress. It is also a positive indication for the future as many of these learners will be staying on into next year and are the foundation on which we can build further growth.

  That said there is still much to do.

  The recovery is not spread evenly across all sector participants and not spread evenly across New Zealand. While, at the time of writing, ENZ is yet to receive its letter of expectation from the new Government, international education was included as a manifesto focus area and I expect we will get very clear direction as to our role in continuing the recovery. This is good news too. Getting clear direction from Government enables us to know exactly what is expected and to focus our efforts accordingly.

  In the short time that I have been in the CEO role, I have come to understand the importance of focus. There has never been and never will be a shortage of opportunities when it comes to international education. It is a matter of identifying the opportunity that delivers the impact and focusing our attention there. I look forward to receiving the new Government’s direction and delivering to it alongside our many partners.

  The past 12 months have also been significant in the area of scholarships – the Prime Minister’s Scholarships for Asia and Latin America and the Manaaki New Zealand Scholarship Programme. Our scholarship programme was also bought to a standstill by COVID-19 and is itself recovering and recovering well. In 2023 more than 250 New Zealanders have been recipients of a Prime Minister’s Scholarship and more than 900 people from across the Pacific and Asia have participated in the Manaaki New Zealand Scholarship Programme with another 400 in the pipeline. As you know, ENZ administers these on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Both programmes successfully build enduring connections between New Zealand and our offshore partners and contribute to our communities here at home.

  For all of us, our colleagues and our whānau, 2023 has been a monumental year. There is much that we can, and should, look back on with pride and satisfaction. On behalf of everyone at ENZ, I’d like to thank you for your support and for the huge amount of effort and work that has been achieved this year. I look forward to working with you in 2024 to continue the momentum towards an international education sector that is sustainable, resilient, and innovative, and of high value for students, providers, and all of New Zealand.

  Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi engari he toa takitini

  It is not the strength of one person alone, but the strength of many that contribute to our success.

  Ngā mihi,

  Linda Sissons
  Acting Chief Executive  

• Our name
  

  The Kākā (a parrot native to New Zealand) as it carried the Manapou (fruit kernal) on its journey to New Zealand. This images features in the welcome area of ENZ's Wellington headquarters.

  Education New Zealand’s Māori name is metaphorical and tells a story which is embedded in our brand and Ngā Manapou (our values) and how we work as an organisation.

   

  Te whakapapa o Manapou ki te Ao – the genealogy of our Māori name – goes back to 2018 when ENZ’s Māori advisory team developed Rautaki Māori (our Māori Strategy). The name was endorsed in 2019 by the then Minister of Education.

   

  ·       Manapou – refers to the fruit kernel that nourished and sustained the Kākā (a parrot native to New Zealand) as it carried the seed in its crop on the journey from Hawaiki to Aotearoa.  

   

  ·       Ki te Ao – the word ‘Ao’ means the ‘world’ and also refers to the ‘dawn’. In Māori cosmogony, the idea of ‘Ao’ signifies dawn or a new beginning every day, new experiences, opportunities and learnings. 

   

  Manapou ki te Ao describes how Aotearoa New Zealand education nourishes and empowers students and enables them to be the world’s next generation of problem solvers.  

   

  Our name and the story are embedded in ENZ’s Manapou ki te Ao colour palette:

  ·       the deepwater blue represents the flight of the Kākā over the ocean

  ·       the surface blue stands for approaching land over shallow water

  ·       the Manapou orange is the Manapou stone brought by the Kākā

  ·       the East Coast sand colour alludes to the sandy shores of Aotearoa.  

• Submissions to Covid-19 inquiry welcome

  The Royal Commision is welcoming submissions to the Inquiry from anyone impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes international education providers and international students.  

  Submissions from international students currently in New Zealand, and those who have now returned home, are eligible to participate. To learn more about how you can share your experience visit: Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 - Citizen Space.  

  The survey closes on 24 March 2024.  

• New Zealand well represented at the 2024 World Digital Education Conference

  The 2024 World Digital Education Conference, attended by representatives from over 70 countries and regions as well as international organisations, aims to work with governments, the education sector, and stakeholders to jointly implement the outcomes of the United Nations Transforming Education Summit, promote education recovery post-pandemic, equitable quality education through digital education transformation, and advance the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

  Chinese Education Minister Huai Jinpeng provided the keynote speech at the opening ceremony. He noted the impact of technology on education and the need to prioritise education reform to keep pace with changes and harness the benefits of digital education. Minister Huai concluded by saying they look forward to the new impetus into promoting international cooperation in digital education through this conference. 

  New Zealand was represented by Minister of Education, Hon Erica Stanford (through a pre-recorded session); H.E. Grahame Morton, New Zealand Ambassador to People’s Republic of China; Ardi Barnard, New Zealand Consul-General to Shanghai; Dr Grant Klinkum, Chief Executive New Zealand Qualifications Authority and Education New Zealand’s China-based representatives. The strong presence at the conference contributes to New Zealand’s reputation as an education partner with an innovative approach to digital learning. New Zealand Education Minister Hon Erica Stanford gave a video address and shared New Zealand’s efforts to harness digitalisation to improve our education system and support lifelong learning. 

  “As an education minister with a relentless focus on the progress and achievement of all students, I see that digital tools and the well-designed use of data have enormous potential to help us drive progress and achievement,” said Minister Stanford. 

  

  Hon Erica Stanford, New Zealand’s Minister of Education delivered a pre-recorded session, sharing New Zealand’s efforts to harness digitalisation and data in education.

  In his address at the Opening Ceremony, Ambassador Morton highlighted the important role of education in the New Zealand-China relationship and gave insights into New Zealand’s innovative EdTech sector.  

  “Digital education is at the centre of New Zealand’s EdTech sector and its developments. Three-quarters of New Zealand EdTech companies are actively looking to take their offerings to the world,” said Ambassador Morton. 

  

  Ambassador Morton addresses the audience during the Opening Ceremony of the conference.

  During the Parallel Session on Governance and Digital Transformation, Dr Klinkum shared New Zealand’s experience in quality assurance, qualification recognition and assessment delivery in the digital era. 

  “We would like to continue working with our international colleagues to ensure that we provide credible education for learners and that life-long learning and global mobility is supported by digital education and reflects the needs of increasingly digital societies,” said Dr Klinkum. 

  During the conference, organisers held the inaugural launch ceremony of the World Digital Education Alliance (WDEA). Universities New Zealand, on behalf of the University sector, joined the Alliance. The first batch of members is by invitation and as of 30 January 2024, 104 agencies from 41 countries joined the alliance ranging from schools to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions, training centres, colleges and universities as well as research institutions and enterprises. The initiative aims to fulfil the UN SDG 4, build a mechanism for international cooperation and exchange in digital education, form synergy to promote global educational development, and create a new environment for smart education.  

• New Zealand welcomes its international students in 2024!

• PIF Recipient: Financial education platform for secondary schools

  Founded in 2015, Banqer set out to tackle the global challenge of financial illiteracy. The team knew that school students were missing out on practical and engaging financial education, partly from a lack of curriculum-aligned resources, and partly from time-poor schools and teachers struggling to deliver financial education on top of everything else.

  Research shows that 75% of us believe schools aren’t doing enough to combat financial illiteracy, and with financial education widely seen as a ‘circuit breaker’ for intergenerational inequality, something needed to change. That’s where Banqer’s award-winning platform came in. Through an online simulation, Banqer introduces students – from primary school through to secondary – to financial concepts like budgeting, savings, careers, insurance, renting, home ownership and investment. 

  "We've seen firsthand the engagement and impact that Banqer creates in New Zealand secondary school classes, and are excited to take this to the world with the support of Education New Zealand,' said Kendall Flutey, Co-Founder and CEO of Banqer 

   

  Banqer High at Cashmere High School

  A step-change from textbooks or written resources of the past, Banqer helps students learn by doing. Learners explore their own simulative economy where they create fictitious bank accounts, earn income, pay expenses, invest, insure, budget and more. 

  Banqer is one of the recipients of the International Education Product Innovation Fund – an initiative funded by the New Zealand Government’s Covid Response and Recovery Fund and managed by ENZ, New Zealand’s dedicated agency for international education. 

  With Banqer’s platform already widely used by schools across New Zealand, the company is looking to scale up its impact and innovation to create financial empowerment for more learners around the world. 

  Support from the Product Innovation Fund will help the company scale Banqer High (its platform for secondary school learners) across Australia and validate new markets, including in North America. The funding will also help develop Banqer Beyond, a new product which aims to bring Banqer’s financial education to a broader audience beyond schools, which could include workplaces, community settings, or direct to consumers. 

  

  Banqer was a natural fit for the Product Innovation Fund, which is supporting seven pilot projects that deliver new, meaningful and unique learning experiences from New Zealand to the world. These pilots reimagine what a New Zealand education experience can look like and mean for global learners.  

  From New Zealand to the world, Banqer’s technology is setting learners on track for better financial futures. And thanks to the partnership between Banqer and ENZ, the stage is set for this New Zealand-built product to have an even greater impact around the world, delivering financial education and empowerment to learners wherever they are. 

   

  More information: 

  Learn more about Banqer.