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Student visa summary July 2019

Thank you for all the applications we have received.

The Fund has now been allocated and we are no longer able to accept applications.

The Government has established a $1M hardship fund for international students to address urgent, temporary needs, for example temporary inability to access cash or because of reduced part-time employment.

Criteria

We welcome applications from education providers and organisations to apply for grants of up to $20,000 (GST not to be included) to enable you to provide eligible international students with direct financial relief or other support, including food parcels and support towards living costs.

Organisations can apply for grants up to $20,000.

Applications can be made from 21 May until funding has been allocated.

Which organisations are eligible to apply to ENZ for grants?

Education providers who are signatories to the Code of Practice
Community groups
Peak bodies, or
Other organisations who currently work with international students and have the mechanisms and experience to support international students with hardship requests.

Individual students and education agents may not apply to ENZ to access the fund.

What grants are available?

Eligible organisations may apply for grants of up to $20,000 (GST not to be included) per request to the fund.
Grants are one-off; however, the same organisation may make additional requests after using their initial funding (subject to the availability of funding).

What can grants be used for?

The grants may be used to:

scale up existing student hardship initiatives
support eligible students through:
- Direct cash grants
- The purchase of resources on behalf of international students, such as food parcels, where this is appropriate.
The maximum amount that can be applied for is up to $1,000 per international student your organisation is supporting.
Funds may not be used for:
- Salaries or staff administration costs
- Funding for flights home
- Tuition fees
- Granting individual students support of more than $1,000 in cash or kind.

Which students are eligible for support?

Grants can only be used to provide support to eligible students.
An eligible student is:
- A current fee-paying international student, or enrolled as a fee-paying international student as at 23 March
- Currently in New Zealand
- In genuine, temporary hardship^[1]
- Not eligible for other government financial support.
International PhD students paying domestic fees are eligible for the government’s domestic student hardship fund and should be encouraged to seek help from that scheme in the first instance.

Table: Summary of eligible and ineligible students

Eligible students	Ineligible students
A current fee-paying international student, or enrolled as an international student as at 23 March. In genuine, temporary hardship.	International PhD students paying domestic fees. International students who are not currently enrolled or who were not enrolled as an international student as at 23 March. International students who are eligible for other government support.

How do organisations apply?

To apply for grant funding, organisations must complete and submit an online application form to ENZ.
Organisations will need to provide the following information:
- Their strategy and approach to identifying students in need, including outreach efforts and ensuring eligibility criteria are met
- Estimated number of international students and basic demographics (e.g. age range, sector, nationalities, region)
- Total amount requested, what it will be used for, and how it has been calculated
- The organisation’s resources to ensure appropriate distribution
- Agreement to meet reporting requirements (including publication) and to repay any underspend within 12 weeks of having been granted the funds
- Invoice and bank details for payment.
Process – Applications are now closed.
Assessment of applications will be completed within five working days. Approval will be notified by email, as will confirmation of distribution of funds.
Any queries about the International Student Hardship Fund can be sent to response@enz.govt.nz or raised with Sahinde Pala, Director of Student Experience & Global Citizens at Education New Zealand.

Reporting requirements:

Organisations will need to report to ENZ on:
- The number of students assisted, and basic demographics (e.g. age range, sector, nationalities, region of New Zealand)
- The type of assistance provided
- How much was provided.
To demonstrate programme outcomes, and as part of its commitment to ensuring value for money from expenditure, ENZ will publish reports from participating organisations in whole or part.

Closing date

Applications can be made from 21 May, until funding has been allocated.

Further information

Frequently asked questions are available here.

Any queries or concerns about the International Student Hardship Fund can be sent to response@enz.govt.nz or raised with Sahinde Pala, Director of Student Experience & Global Citizens at Education New Zealand.

Thank you for your assistance in helping to support international students currently studying here during these unprecedented times.

[1] Organisations will have the discretion to determine what constitutes significant, temporary hardship in accordance with their existing policies and practices.

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While these are the headline numbers of the report, a more complete picture is revealed by looking at the report in more detail. For instance, while there has been a 5,665 decrease in enrolments, certain sectors have been impacted more than others. Private Training Enterprises (PTEs), mainly non-funded, experienced a drop in enrolments of 5,102. However, Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) saw a 4 percent increase in enrolments, although the numbers, 434, are modest.
Canterbury is suffering reduced student enrolments due to the earthquakes, an important factor in explaining the national numbers. There were 2,979 fewer students – a 31 percent drop – enrolled with Canterbury education providers in 2012.
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This research will allow Education New Zealand to provide you, the industry, with detailed information that is current and relevant. We can then work together to develop programmes and initiatives to increase the demand for what New Zealand has to offer.
There is much work to be done. A willingness to take a different approach is essential if we are to grow our industry.
We will provide more analysis of the data in next week’s edition of our e-news, International Education News. Some of the key information from the report is included below.
Kind regards,
Grant McPherson
Chief Executive Education New Zealand
Enrolments: There was a 6% drop (from 98,660 to 92,995 in international student enrolments) in 2012. The main results were:
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1. pay the same fees as domestic students
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4. are able to apply for a 12-month post-study work visa after graduating
5. entitle their partners to apply for an open work visa.
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Meet our Korea video competition winners
In a 60-second video, students were asked to share their aspirations for studying in New Zealand, including references to the programme they have selected.

Cecily Lin, ENZ’s Regional Lead, North Asia, said the standard of entries was impressive, as was the level of support agents provided their students.

“It’s encouraging to see agents teaming up with students to enter the competition, and help them achieve their goal of studying in New Zealand,” said Cecily.

“As this was the first time we ran the competition, we were unsure of how much interest we’d have – but we were pleasantly surprised when the videos started flooding in.”

The winning students and agents will be presented with their awards at a ceremony hosted by Clare Fearnley, New Zealand Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, at her residence in Seoul on Friday, 17 February. The winners’ videos will be screened at the event.

The student winners are:
- Overall: Seoyeon Nam (video), who will receive tuition fees up to $8,000 to study at Macleans College, Auckland.
- School category: Sohyune Shin (video) and Sumin Nam (video), who will each receive tuition fees up to $6,000 and will study in Auckland at Belmont Intermediate School and St. Mary’s College, respectively.
- English language category: Jiwan Park (video) and HyeJin Kim (video), who will each receive tuition fees up to $5,000. Both of them will study at the Dominion English School, Auckland.
The agent winners are:
- HJ Global Education, which supported Seoyeon Nam, the overall winner
- Uhak K, which encouraged 16 students to enter – more than any other agent
- SIS International Education, which encouraged 11 students to enter
- Prime, which encouraged eight students to enter.
The prize for the winning agents is an invitation to the familiarisation trip to New Zealand (or flights between Korea and New Zealand).