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Calling all China research specialists
Since its inception in 2005, the Tripartite Fund has supported the development of strategic research relationships between New Zealand and China.
Universities are invited to submit proposals for the latest round, with up to $30,000 available per application to support quality, high-level research and collaboration. The fund seeks to initiate new tripartite partnerships and facilitate the development of existing partnerships between a New Zealand university and two Chinese partner universities.
Eligible Tripartite Fund subjects can be drawn from the arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences and applied sciences including agriculture, food safety, conservation, forestry, advanced materials engineering and environmental science.
The Tripartite Fund has enabled many high-achieving New Zealand academics to develop relationships with Chinese research partners.
Since 2009, Auckland University of Technology (AUT) has worked on tripartite collaborative projects with Shanghai Jiao-Tong University (SJTU) and Xinjiang University in China.
Nikola Kasabov, AUT Professor of Computer Science and Director KEDRI, said that the ‘three brothers’ partners have exchanged multiple visits of both staff members and students.
“The outcomes have been outstanding, including a large number of joint papers published in international journals and conferences, joint methods and software development in computational intelligence and applications in health, environment protection, and predicting hazardous events.”
Professor Kasabov was also appointed as Advisory Professor to SJTU, meeting with PhD students and staff on an annual basis.
“The collaboration helps staff and students to work together on new frontiers of information and computer sciences and technologies along with important applications for both countries.”
The deadline for applications is 1 March 2019, with a project start date of 1 May 2019, and end 30 April 2020.
Please complete the application form and submit it to china@enz.govt.nz
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A message to our students and their families
Our focus at this time is on supporting the families and communities affected by the attack and making sure people feel safe and secure – public safety is the top priority for the New Zealand Police and the New Zealand Government.
People everywhere in New Zealand are coming together to ensure that New Zealand remains an inclusive, caring country.
The attack is an assault on the values of New Zealanders – values of international friendship, tolerance and kindness. International education has a powerful role to play in this, and we value the diversity and perspectives all our international friends bring to New Zealand.
The following services are available, and we encourage you to access them if required:
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If you are in New Zealand, and you or someone you know is feeling distressed in the wake of these events you can call or text 1737 to speak to someone.
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If you are currently studying in New Zealand you can also get support from your education provider.
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Ministry of Health is offering health advice for coping after a traumatic event.
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ACC has support available to victims of the Christchurch terror attack.
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Immigration New Zealand offers general information and guidance for those living and working in New Zealand.
New Zealand is committed to making sure all international students feel safe and well, and that the country remains a welcoming and open society:
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The New Zealand Government’s pastoral care requirements are world leading and set high expectations for the support of international students. The requirements ensure education providers are providing support, information and counselling services. Also, that students are safe and properly cared for.
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New Zealand’s International Student Wellbeing Strategy includes a focus on health and wellbeing, and inclusion, and funds initiatives that support these aims.
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The New Zealand International Education Strategy 2018-2030 is focussed on delivering excellent education and student experience, and ensuring international students are welcome and safe.
Noho ora mai (stay well, look after yourself).
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Letter from the Acting CE: After Christchurch
As Grant McPherson said last week, the tragedy in Christchurch was an assault on the values that New Zealanders hold dear – values of international friendship, tolerance, care and a global outlook. These values are at the core of international education and they are more important now than ever.
While our country grieves, we have been heartened by the compassion we’ve seen across New Zealand – Campus Watch initiatives, vigils, social media engagement and practical help with transport and food, much of it led by students.
We are heartened that the outpouring of support and concern from New Zealanders over the last 12 days has been so visible internationally.
At ENZ, we are continuing our close contact with education providers, international teams and government partners, as well as monitoring and evaluating the latest intelligence and media coverage. We will continue to respond to industry and market needs for information, reassurance and practical support including messages to current and prospective students and families.
Over the next few weeks, we will be incorporating messages of care and support into all our activities and approaches.
ENZ is committed to promoting New Zealand internationally as an inclusive and welcoming study destination, where manaakitanga is shown to all students who join us here.
John Goulter, Acting Chief Executive of Education New Zealand
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Global conference puts spotlight on student employability
More than 300 delegates from 35-plus countries will attend the conference, which is designed for new and experienced practitioners of academic work placement and experiential education.
This will be the first time the conference is held in Australia or New Zealand.
“We see the conference as an important opportunity to broaden our national conversation about employability for both domestic and international students,” said Brett Berquist, University of Auckland Director International.
“Employability is a key driver for international students choosing New Zealand. It’s also important for the growing number of Kiwis who are starting their ‘OE’ (overseas experience) during their university study.
“The GIC is a place for us to think about international mobility and the importance of employability outcomes for all students – as well as to network and learn from each other.”
A number of New Zealand tertiary providers are participating as well as hosting post-conference partnership visits.
Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) is the city sponsor for the conference and is moderating a New Zealand employer panel debate “Working with international students”.
ENZ is the country sponsor and will present new research, “Employer Perceptions of Hiring International Graduates”.
“We know that students want to have strong employability prospects after they graduate, whether they are back home, staying in New Zealand for some post-study work or in a third country,” said John Goulter, ENZ Acting Chief Executive.
The conference will cover an introductory track for those new to the field as well as latest research and trends, ideas for scaling up delivery and models for working with internship providers.
Among the presentations are topics on: “International Exposure at Home and Abroad: Employability gains through internships”; “The Connection Catalyst: Virtual internships for wider access to cultural fluency and employability”; and “Emerging Internship Destinations: Keys for developing employers’ most desired skills in recent graduates”.
“The GIC plays an integral part in exploring past, present and future trends,” said Brett.
“This year we have an important focus on the employability needs of international students, both in their country of study as well as supporting their return to their home market. This is a particularly important theme for New Zealand and Australian education providers.”
The conference will be held at the Owen G. Glenn Building, and receptions will be held at the Fale Pasifika, Auckland Town Hall, and the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Founded in 1999, previous GIC conferences have been held in the US, Singapore, Ireland, Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Registrations are currently open. For the full GIC programme see here: http://globalinternshipconference.org
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Tokyo teachers learn from New Zealand
The workshop was hosted by ENZ in collaboration with the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education, and facilitated by Dr Howard Youngs, Director of Auckland University of Technology (AUT) School of Education.
Misa Kitaoka, ENZ’s Senior Market Development Manager – Japan, said the interactive workshop on key values, social competencies and learning areas based on the New Zealand Curriculum, was a valuable experience for participating teachers.
“The most popular exercise among the teachers was the pepeha, where they introduced themselves by speaking in te reo Māori for the first time. The experience helped the teachers relate to and better understand their students who may not be native Japanese speakers.”
The workshop was particularly relevant to today’s Tokyo schools which are becoming increasingly diverse in terms of ethnicity and language, Misa said. This was particularly the case with the launch of the Tokyo Board of Education’s ‘Diverse Link Tokyo Edu’, a new learning initiative to promote inquiry-based learning with overseas institutions and organisations.
“I look forward to working with New Zealand providers to showcase the Kiwi classroom experience, and the way it highlights the uniqueness of the New Zealand curriculum, to complement our student recruitment work.”
Held in the last week of April, the workshop was also a way to acknowledge Japan’s new Reiwa era, which began on 1 May after Emperor Naruhito ascended the Chrysanthemum throne.
“Hosting an event around a new imperial era is of enormous significance in Japan, and Reiwa (which means beautiful harmony in Japanese) is said to reset the national mood,” Misa said.
Dr Youngs’ innovative workshop was featured in Japanese media, including Yomiuri Shimbun, one of Japan’s largest national newspapers.
Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education’s Director of International Education, Ms Akiko Mori, said the workshop was a wonderful opportunity for Tokyo teachers to get a taste of the latest pedagogy from a New Zealand university through the board’s partnership with Education New Zealand.
“I have received great feedback from the participants and look forward to promoting more opportunities like this as part of the Diverse Link Tokyo Edu initiative,” she said.
Ms Mori will be speaking at the upcoming NZIEC to introduce new initiatives by the Tokyo Government to promote international education, global talent and leadership in Japan.
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Thailand education expo coming in October
TIECA (Thai International Educational Consultants Association) is Thailand’s only peak body of education agents. It provides quality assurance of more than 70 agent members and ensures high counselling standards for Thai students seeking to study abroad.
The 34th TIECA Study Abroad Expo will run in Bangkok in October, where education providers will meet prospective students and network with TIECA agents for future collaboration.
Jaruwan Pongjaruwat, ENZ’s Programme Manager for Thailand, says the TIECA expo is the best agent-led event in Thailand, making it important to have New Zealand representation.
“Having New Zealand institutions join this event shows New Zealand’s commitment to the Thai market. It’s also a good opportunity for institutions to expand their connections with TIECA agents and interact with students face-to-face – especially in Thailand where agents still play a major role,” says Jaruwan.
“TIECA Expo also runs seminars on the latest insights on the Thai market, providing useful recommendations for institutions to increase enrolments.”
The Expo’s primary focus is high schools, language schools, universities and exchange organisations from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, the United States and many other countries.
The 2018 Expo had around 400 visitors; 60 percent were school students looking to study abroad, and 45 percent of this group would make a study travel decision within 1-2 years.
New Zealand institutions wanting to attend must download and complete an application form and submit it to manager@tieca.com.
Date: Saturday, 26 October 2019
Venue: The Westin Grande Sukhumvit, Bangkok, Thailand
Exhibit Profile:
First Tier: High schools, language schools and exchange organisations
Second Tier: Universities, technical schools
Visitor Profile: Students, families, professors, teachers
Fees: Single Table $2,145/Table (Early bird rate due Aug 24)
Shared Table $2,789 /Table (Early bird rate due Aug 24)
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Major engagement for ENZ’s latest marketing campaign
ENZ’s first marketing campaign for 2019, New Futures Need New Paths, is focussed on expanding prospective international students’ understanding of New Zealand education and sharpening New Zealand’s brand position.
Because of this, the campaign has been designed to focus on engaging with target audiences, says Patrick Holden, ENZ’s Digital Media Project Manager.
“Already, we’ve had more than 21 million engagements with our digital paid media. This has come from 38.9 million viewers who have seen ENZ’s paid advertisements through a number of ad placements.
“We have seen an increased overall engagement rate of 12.60% compared to 8.43% for the previous Future Proof campaign, which is a great improvement! This is because we have tweaked the style and type of campaign content to that which best engages our student audience, including using new ad placements which uses custom-fit content tailored to different channels.”
The highest engagement has come from Korea, Germany and Japan. In an online website poll, more than 85% of users say they are ‘very likely’ or ‘somewhat likely’ to consider New Zealand as a study destination.
“While engagement is the campaign’s primary objective, we’re also achieving secondary objectives such as attracting new database leads, as a high volume of our audience are also engaging with our campaign landing page to find out more about studying in New Zealand,” said Patrick.
The campaign has been integrated with ENZ’s social audiences too. So far, the engagement has been positive.
A screenshot from the Study in New Zealand Facebook page.
Thank you to all our industry partners for collaborating with us on this campaign, in particular by sourcing talent.
The campaign will run until the end of May.
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ENZ announces Tripartite Fund awardees
The fund awards each university $30,000 to progress research with university partners in China in areas such as cancer research, national parks and conservation, and media and information.
The New Zealand-China Tripartite Fund is an ENZ-sponsored initiative that has been seeding research collaborations between New Zealand and Chinese universities over the last 15 years.
ENZ’s Regional Director – Asia, John Laxon, said ENZ was committed to showcasing and supporting the reputation of New Zealand universities in China, particularly their high-calibre researchers and postgraduate programmes.
“We look forward to further partnering with New Zealand universities, and to welcoming more Chinese students to study in New Zealand – ranked as the best English-speaking education system in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Educating for the Future Index 2018”.
2019-20 fund awardee Dr Mingsheng Li, Massey University, said he was excited about using tripartite funding to advance his work on developing media and information literacy (MIL) for students and teachers in China in collaboration with his university colleague, Professor Stephen Croucher and research partners at Shenzhen University and Yunnan Normal University.
The Tripartite Fund has helped cover travel and logistics costs for Associate Professor Mick Abbott of Lincoln University to collaborate with Tsinghua University and Kunming University of Science and Technology in conducing comparative research of Chinese and New Zealand national parks, and conservation and heritage areas.
Dr Abbott said the fund’s ongoing support had been invaluable in its outcomes for numerous staff exchanges and shared research outputs.
“It also enabled Lincoln [University] to work with partners to present an exhibition in Beijing in 2017 on the development of the National Parks in Aotearoa New Zealand, which over 50,000 people attended.”
Associate Professor Jun Lu said AUT was grateful for the Tripartite Fund which enabled them to start a great relationship with two Chinese universities.
“We established collaborative research projects in various health and medicine areas and expanded our research to three Chinese universities.
“The latest round of funding will enable us to consolidate existing ties and expand our collaboration to more Chinese universities and academics in all universities involved.”
New Zealand’s former Ambassador to China, John McKinnon, opening the exhibition on the development of New Zealand's national parks at the Museum of Chinese Gardens and Landscape Architecture in 2017. The project was made possible by the New Zealand-China Tripartite Fund.
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Around the world in five
GLOBAL
Becoming a global citizen – The power of an arts and social sciences degree
Computers may have speed, precision and data on their side, but how about creativity?
US
Bill aims to keep international student STEM talent in the US
Four senators have introduced a bill to remove “unfair barriers” for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) educated international students who want to work in the United States after completing their advanced degrees.
CHINA
Safety as crucial as rankings for study abroad
Students from China are as concerned about the safety of a study destination as they are about its education quality, according to the latest Beijing Overseas Study Service Association report.
JAPAN
New policy allows international students to launch businesses
International students in Japan can now apply for a special visa that will let them launch a business, a government measure that will be part of a new growth strategy for the country.
INDIA
Why the number of Indian students going to Britain is rising again
Post-Brexit, a number of UK government-led policies are making it easier for international students from India to choose postgraduate study in the UK.
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Around the world in five
GLOBAL
QS 50 Under 50 highlights competitiveness in global higher education
In a global race to cater for a growing student population and demand for better provision, Asia is a world leader for young outstanding institutions, according to the latest QS Top 50 Under 50 2020 Ranking.
EUROPE
First 17 European Universities’ alliances announced
The European Commission has announced the first 17 projects that will receive funding for a three-year pilot under the European Universities Initiative funded by the Erasmus+ programme.
GLOBAL
How international students use digital and social media to plan study abroad
Institution websites are the most useful tool for international students planning study abroad, while social media channels offer a “sneak peek” of the student experience, according to the 2019 QS International Student Survey.
ASIA
Asia Pacific’s most innovative universities for 2019
South Korea’s Seoul National University tops Reuters’ ranking of Asia Pacific’s Most Innovative Universities, a list that identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and power new markets and industries.
GLOBAL
What do international graduates need to compete locally?
The number of people from non-English-speaking countries moving to English-speaking countries for study continues to boom.
