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• Building online brand ambassadors

  In June this year, to make sure we were getting the best out of our social media we merged 11 local Facebook pages into one global Facebook page – www.facebook.com/studyinnewzealand

  This move was important to both grow our online community of brand ambassadors and deliver a consistent global message to prospective students.

  At the time of the merge, our Facebook community had 120,679 ‘likes’. The global page has well and truly surpassed all our initial goals, rocketing to 268,300 fans in just five months. On average we reach 3 million fans a week, including 80,000 engaged fans each week.

  Breaking it down, our Facebook audience is 45 percent female, 55 percent male and is aged between 18 and 24. Our largest audience is in India followed by Thailand, Brazil, Malaysia and Colombia.

  Compared to competitor countries, Study in New Zealand is performing very strongly with more ‘likes’ than Australia, Canada and the UK – we just have the USA to catch.

  In recent weeks our global community manager has noticed a significant shift in the conversation among prospective students on Facebook. When we first launched the global page, most of the questions were very high level – ‘how do I study in New Zealand?’ and ‘what is New Zealand like?’ The questions we’re getting now are much more specific and qualified;

  “I am from Bangladesh. I am interested to pursue a diploma at SIT, will Invercargill be an affordable place to live?”

  “What is the different b/w diploma and masters? Which is more job oriented?”

  “I want to know how’s New Zealand for aeronautical engineering in bachelor program & what is the cost for it?”

  Another notable change is that our community is starting to self-moderate – answering each other’s questions with great advice or helpful links. We have a number of New Zealand institutions and agents who are joining in to provide great support through this channel to prospective students with questions.

  In November a social campaign will be launched to further grow and stimulate this online audience with further activity planned for 2015. With an absence of Facebook in China, we are currently developing an equivalent social media platform on the popular site Weibo .

  Join the conversation at www.facebook.com/studyinnewzealand.

• NZ-India Sports Scholarships announced

  Minister Nathan Guy and former Black Cap’s captain Stephen Fleming, along with High Commissioner Grahame Morton presented the awards at an event which also marked 101 days until the start of the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

  Education New Zealand’s Regional Director for South and South East Asia, Ziena Jalil congratulated the students on winning the year-long scholarships to study at tertiary institutions around New Zealand.

  “The level of students applying for the scholarships was particularly high – we are working to increase the quality and level of qualifications studied by Indian students in New Zealand and these scholarships reinforce that,” says Ziena.

  The scholarship recipients are studying programmes ranging from bachelor degrees in sport and exercise to postgraduate study in sports physiotherapy and clinical exercise physiology. They will be studying at AUT, the Universities of Otago and Waikato, Unitec, UCOL and SIT.

  Among the recipients are twin sisters Tashi and Nungshi Malik who are the first twins to have climbed Mt Everest, and Surabhi Date a former captain of the Indian Women’s Rugby Team.

  “It was great to bring all the recipients together to receive their awards at the Cricket World Cup event in front of more than 250 Indian government, education and business contacts as well as a New Zealand business mission,” said Ziena.

  “The evening was a showcase for New Zealand as a country and particularly our world-class reputation for excellence in sports and education.”

  The New Zealand India Sports Scholarships programme is one of the several activities underway to deepen New Zealand’s education relationship with India. The initiative was first announced as part of the Prime Ministers’ Education Initiative which seeks to enhance bilateral tertiary education cooperation between New Zealand and India.

  Almost 12,000 students from India studied in New Zealand in 2013 making it the second largest source country for international students to New Zealand.

  

• Roundtable explores distance education recognition

  The roundtable involved senior officials from Chinese education agencies and representatives from the University of Otago, Massey University, New Zealand Qualifications Authority, Universities New Zealand and Education New Zealand.

  The recognition of New Zealand distance education programmes has been an item of discussion between New Zealand and Chinese authorities for many years. Currently all foreign qualifications delivered by distance, or with a distance component, are not recognised by Chinese authorities.

  “This isn’t a New Zealand-specific issue,” says ENZ's Regional Director Alexandra Grace.  “We are very much at first steps, in terms of building understanding of how we assure quality outside of traditional face-to-face qualification delivery. Greater understanding of our processes may also contribute to China’s domestic reform of its local distance qualifications."

  The New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement signed in 2008 included commitments to undertake work on “evaluation of the quality assurance criteria for qualifications which include a distance delivery component.”

  Discussions on the recognition of New Zealand distance education qualifications have been ongoing since then.

  The roundtable showcased Otago University’s renowned Master in Aviation Medicine qualification which is fully taught by distance and has been offered for over 26 years. Over 100 students are currently studying the programme from the Middle East, North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Graduates of the programme meet internationally recognised ‘best practice’ standards for aviation medicine practitioners and are frequently employed by airlines including Cathay Pacific, Emirates and Qantas.

  The roundtable also featured Massey University’s Master’s degree programmes in Veterinary Medicine (Biosecurity) and Public Health (Biosecurity) which has been completed by nine senior Chinese officials. The qualifications, which require four months to be spent at Massey and the remainder by distance study from China (one year in total), represent collaboration in teaching between Massey’s teaching and research groups, EpiCentre, and the Centre for Public Health Research. 

  Further work is slated on sharing of information and best practice.

• Diplomas recognised by Chinese authorities

  Vice Minister of Education Dr Hao Ping and Secretary for Education Peter Hughes signed the Arrangement on Mutual Recognition of Academic Degrees in Higher Education between the Government of New Zealand and the Government of the People’s Republic of China at the 8^th Joint Working Group on Education and Training. 

  The Arrangement, first signed in 2002, was updated and re-signed to take into account the range of changes  to the New Zealand Qualifications Framework and related settings that have occurred since 2002.

  In a new move, two and three year diplomas from New Zealand were also added to the list of qualifications officially recognised by Chinese authorities.

  The changes will see greater recognition of academic qualifications between New Zealand and China, making it easier for students to further their studies in either country.

  “This increases New Zealand’s attractiveness at a study destination and expands opportunities for New Zealanders looking to study in China,” said Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce when announcing the signing.

  When Chinese students return to China after their studies, they get their foreign qualifications verified by the China Service Center for Scholarly Exchange (CSCSE). The updates to the Arrangement ensure that a greater number of students receive the appropriate recognition, enabling them to gain official comparability of their qualifications within the Chinese system. 

• Nine PTEs added to China study abroad list

  “This is an excellent outcome,” says ENZ's Regional Director Greater China – Alexandra Grace.  “It has been a challenging area of work, requiring close coordination between ENZ and NZQA and robust discussions with China’s Education Ministry.  Working closely, we were able to secure this outcome to the benefit of more of our outstanding private tertiaries.”

  The Jiaoyu Shewai Jianguan Xinx Wang (JSJ) Study Abroad website is maintained by the Chinese Ministry of Education and lists high quality tertiary education providers outside of China. Chinese students who are considering tertiary study overseas often use the website to decide where to study.

  The nine education providers that will be added to the JSJ Study Abroad website are:

  • Media Design School

  • New Zealand College of Chinese Medicine Limited

  • New Zealand School of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine

  • New Zealand Tertiary College Limited

  • SAE Institute

  • South Pacific College of Natural Medicine

  • The New Zealand College of Massage Limited

  • UUNZ Institute of Business Limited

  • Wellpark College of Natural Therapies Limited

  These PTEs join 32 other tertiary institutions on the New Zealand page.

  All the education providers being added to the website meet criteria that have been agreed with the Chinese Ministry of Education. The Chinese Ministry of Education will only add education providers which meet the following criteria:

  • be signatories to the Code of Practice for the Pastoral Care of International Students

  • have achieved ratings of at least Confident for both educational performance and capability in self-assessment in their most recent NZQA external evaluation and review report (Category 1 and 2 providers)

  • offer degrees (at Level 7 or above of the New Zealand Qualifications Framework)

  • not be specialist English language schools

  • not be distance learning schools

  • not deliver religious programmes.

  Throughout negotiations NZQA has advocated for the adoption of a criteria-based approach for the listing of further New Zealand PTEs. The rationale behind this approach is to allow for a regular review process, ensuring that PTEs on the list continue to meet criteria expected by the Chinese Ministry of Education, and allowing additional PTEs to be added to the list as they meet the criteria.

  The announcement of the addition of nine further high-quality PTEs is a positive step. ENZ and NZQA will continue to negotiate with the Chinese Ministry of Education on the use of the criteria as the basis for regular review and updates to the JSJ Study Abroad website list to ensure that prospective students and parents are able to access accurate and up-to-date information on their study options in New Zealand.

  Providers who are not listed on the website can point to their EER report and the following text on the JSJ website when dealing with Chinese students and partners:

  新西兰还有许多招收外国学生的私立培训机构及语言学校。通过新西兰资格认证局 (NZQA) 审批的学校名单可查阅NZQA网站：www.nzqa.govt.nz.

  New Zealand also has many private training institutions and language schools to recruit foreign students. The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) approved school list is available on the NZQA website: www.nzqa.govt.nz.
   
  The New Zealand page of the JSJ Study Abroad website can be viewed at http://www.jsj.edu.cn/n1/12040.shtml 

• $50,000 sister schools programme launched

  The fund, announced by Chief Executive Grant McPherson during the 8^th New Zealand-China Joint Working Group on Education and Training, aims to support schools’ relationships with Chinese counterparts.

  The $50,000 fund will be accessible through a contestable application process for New Zealand schools. It will enable new sister school relationships to be developed and existing relationships to be strengthened.

  Cultivating relationships in sister regions and cities between China and New Zealand will be a priority.

  “New Zealand and China recognise the important role that language and culture plays in developing globally aware citizens,” ENZ's Regional Director – Greater China Alexandra Grace said.

  “The relationships New Zealand primary, intermediate and secondary schools nationwide have with fellow Chinese schools are a valued source of learning opportunities, cross-cultural skills development and friendship between our two countries.”

  Since 2005, the total number of students learning Chinese language in New Zealand schools increased five-fold from 4,733 to 22,031, with particularly strong growth at primary and intermediate level.

  The number of Chinese international school students studying in New Zealand has also increased, growing by 11 percent in 2013. 

  Applications from clusters of schools are encouraged. Further information on the criteria and application process will be published at a later date through E-News. 

• Education publishers to go to TIBE 2015

  New Zealand is Guest of Honour at next year’s event and we are part of a wider sponsors group that includes the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Creative New Zealand, MFAT and the Publishers Association of New Zealand.

  Six educational publishers – Lanky Hippo, ESA Publications, Wendy Pye Publishing, MJA Publishing, NZCER and Clean Slate Press – are attending the book fair to promote their educational products and services.

  “This is the largest offshore presence of education publishers since the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2012,” said David Glover who is managing the project for the Publishers Association.

  “Research shows that one third of New Zealand’s education publishing income is earned from exports and TIBE is a valuable opportunity for publishers to make connections in the Asian market.”

  “TIBE is also a big public fair that attracts almost half a million visitors. With New Zealand as Guest of Honour we should be able to raise the profile of both New Zealand publishers and our education system in general.”

  Over the past 28 years the Wendy Pye Group has worked in many Asian countries, including Taiwan and China.

  “Our flagship product, Sunshine Classics, has already been sold into mainland China and will be released as a celebration package for the Chinese New Year, in Chinese and English in both print and as apps for Apple iPads,” said Wendy Pye.

  “While in Taipei, the company will be involved in a discussion for a collection of the best of Margaret Mahy titles in picture book format for translation into Chinese.”

  Clean Slate Press also have experience in Asia but are looking to get into Taiwan specifically.

  “We are currently selling in China through an agent and have distributors in Singapore and Hong Kong but are keen to expand our base,” said Sandy Roydhouse of Clean Slate Press.

  “PANZ are doing the groundwork around TIBE and getting Taiwanese publishers on board which should make all the difference this year.”

  “Along with our range of maths and literacy books, we are the exclusive education publisher of Joy Cowley titles and she is well-loved in Asia.”

  For David Ellis of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, TIBE is the opportunity to test the water in Asia.

  “NZCER Press is a small publisher with a long history publishing research-informed content for the education sector in New Zealand. We need to strengthen our international reach to continue to attract the best authors and to ensure the sustainability of our organisation.”

  “We are particularly strong in teacher education, with a lot of interest internationally in our indigenous and early childhood education publishing programmes.”

  “It is difficult to build relationships from a distance and so going as part of a group to this major fair should make it easier for us to meet with the right people and establish connections.”

  “We will also be meeting with the Taiwanese Education Research Association which is a similar organisation to our own. We hope they can help us to understand the market in Taiwan and wider Asia, including partnership opportunities involving our new online assessment platform", said David.

  For more information and news about TIBE 2015 visit http://www.publishers.org.nz/news/

• We’re Always On

  Having a continual in-market presence that actively promotes New Zealand’s attributes as a study destination boosts our chances of prospective students including New Zealand in their consideration set.

  The objective of the 'Always On' activity is to drive prospective students (and parents of students) to targeted content landing pages on studyinnewzealand.com.  The goal of the landing pages is for these students to register their details to find out more about studying in New Zealand either through an Education New Zealand Recognised Agency (ENZRA) or directly with an institution.  The other objective of the activity is to deliver the New Zealand education brand proposition, ‘Think New’, in a way that will resonate with our target audience and see them consider New Zealand as a valid study option.

  We’re currently live in India, China, Malaysia and Viet Nam, and will go live very soon in Thailand and Indonesia.  For each country we’re creating ‘’home’’ pages

  (e.g. India), sector-specific pages (e.g. universities) and, coming soon, programme-specific pages (e.g. engineering).

  All pages will be in the local language.  

  

• US students win NZ study experience

  The collaboration is part of Education New Zealand’s commitment to the Institute of International Education’s Generation Study Abroad initiative to double the number of students from the United States who study abroad by 2018,

  Participating universities and ITPs funded US$500 tuition or living costs awards, and ENZ funded US$2,000 travel awards to help students pay for their flight to New Zealand.

  Eleven students were offered the US$500 university or ITP excellence awards to study at the University of Auckland, AUT, Unitec, Massey University, the University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington, the University of Canterbury, Otago Polytechnic and the University of Otago, and four students (including one who also received an institute award) were offered the US$2,000 travel awards to study at the University of Auckland, the University of Waikato, Massey University Wellington, and the University of Otago.

  As part of the application process, students were required to submit a blog or video explaining why they wanted to study in New Zealand. “The standard of applications received was very high, and their blogs and videos were inventive and entertaining,” said Amy Rutherford, International Market Manager, North America.

  “I can’t wait to see what the students get up to during their time in New Zealand!”

  You can view the application blogs and videos through the links below.

  Phillomena Wong from the University of Southern California, recipient of an AUT University excellence award                 

  Emily Garrett from Park University, recipient of a Massey University excellence award

  Allison Cluett from Brown University, recipient of a University of Otago excellence award

  Nicole Guinn from the University of Mary Washington, recipient of a University of Otago excellence award

  Reese Sun from the University of Texas at Austin, recipient of ENZ travel award, studying at the University of Otago

  Zoa Smalley from the Kansas City Art Institute, recipient of an Otago Polytechnic excellence award

  Leo Valdez from the University of Central Missouri, recipient of a Unitec excellence award

  Sara Lobdell from Franklin and Marshall College, recipient of a University of Auckland excellence award, and an ENZ travel award

  Yasaman Sahba from Southern Methodist University, recipient of University of Canterbury excellence award

  Abe Levitan from Olin College, recipient of a Victoria University of Wellington excellence award

  Logan Coffman from the University of Colorado at Boulder, recipient of a Victoria University of Wellington excellence award

  Annalisa Palmer from the University of Nevada, recipient of an ENZ travel award, studying at Massey University Wellington

  Kora Nixon from Michigan State University, recipient of a University of Waikato excellence award

  Dustin Flores from Utah State University, recipient of ENZ travel award, studying at the University of Waikato. 

• Agent e-learning upgrade

  Having trained agents ensures that prospective students get the right information about living and studying in New Zealand, helping make New Zealand their study destination of choice.

  This week Education New Zealand (ENZ) is upgrading the e-learning system to enhance the learning experience for users and make the training programme compatible with mobile devices. We have advised agents that e-learning will not be available from 2 – 9 February as we complete the upgrade.

  ENZ is also making progress on translating the e-learning modules into Chinese, Japanese and Spanish to support agent training around the world. We will let you know when these are available.