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• 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/

• IEGF success key to Chile market

  Vital English’s success in Chile started in mid-2012 when ENZ staff introduced Vital English to STEP, an institute associated with the University of Santo Tomas that regularly tenders for Chilean Government bids in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL).

  Through this introduction, Vital English was able to identify an opportunity for developing an ESOL product based on an existing Vital English course that would be suitable for upskilling Chilean primary and secondary school teachers.

  Just a few months later, Vital English and STEP were involved in a Chilean Government pilot involving 380 teachers. The pilot saw teachers improve their Test of English for International Communication scores by one or more levels on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages in three months.

  Given that success, the Chilean Government sought to extend the pilot to a 12 month course in 2013 involving 4000 teachers.

  Vital English was under pressure to rapidly develop new content to meet the needs of this bid and attend a number of meetings with Chilean Government officials. While both STEP and Vital English could recognise the scope of the opportunity, neither party had sufficient resources available to meet these requirements within the required timeframe.

  “Fortunately, the IEGF was announced”, says Adrian. “Winning an IEGF has provided enough of a financial boost to allow Vital English to develop the required content and get to market quickly to maximise the opportunity.

  “The result of being able to respond quickly to the requirements of the Chilean Government has, without question, strengthened our position there and accelerated our ability to grow the market. It has led to Vital English being invited to participate in a further bid for providing ESL to 1000 secondary school students.

  “Vital English is now participating in three different Chilean Government bids worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. More importantly, the lessons learned from the partnerships formed, have opened the door to a new business model that Vital English is well positioned to maximise.”

  For more information on the IEGF, click here.

  About Vital English

  Vital English is a supplier of digital support products for international students throughout the student engagement lifecycle; from helping institutions build awareness in the market to communicating with alumni digitally. Central to the Vital Suite of products is a catalogue of online and blended English courses. Vital English supply these products globally working with institutions in New Zealand, Canada, Australia, South East Asia and the Americas.

  Vital English is happy to share more feedback from lessons learned in Chile. Please contact Adrian Sallis for more information. adrian.sallis@vitalenglish.com

• Market Research: Opportunities in China

  The research identifies sector-specific opportunities in the targeted tier one and two cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Qingdao and Chengdu/Chongqing.

  The research has been summarised and arranged under the following headings:

  • Market demand
  • Student decision-making
  • Education opportunities, and
  • Strategy in the Chinese market

  You can access the research summaries here

  Please contact ebd@enz.govt.nz to request the full research presentations.

• NZQA brochures now in Spanish and Japanese

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

  The brochure can also be downloaded from the NZQA website at the following links:

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

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

  Free copies can be requested by contacting the NZQA Communications Team at coms@nzqa.govt.nz