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  • You’re invited! Find out about Brazil international education trends in upcoming webinar

    Join us to dive into the results of the 10th edition of the Brazilian Educational & Language Travel Association (Belta) Seal Survey, the most comprehensive study on international education trends in Brazil.  

    The study surveyed 586 education agencies and 1,780 students from across Brazil to understand trends, behaviours, and preferences in the international education sector, showcasing Aotearoa New Zealand as one of the fastest-growing destinations among Brazilians seeking an international education. 

    Hosted by ENZ, hear from Belta President, Alexandre Argenta, who will share the survey’s results and the main factors driving the choice of New Zealand as a destination for students from Brazil.  

    Date: Thursday 7 August  

    Time: 8:45am – 10:00am (NZT) 

    Registration link: https://enz.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Bt7353-iTJ2Ru5rj8Rqv-w 

     

  • New Zealand Taught Me: Campaign toolkits now available 

    Stakeholder-specific guidelines are now on ENZ BrandLab – empowering our partners to make the most of this campaign.  

    Check out the guidelines  

    Where to view the New Zealand Taught Me campaign assets 

    ENZ has a tailored NZ Taught Me campaign toolkit for our international education sector partners.   

    The toolkit is now available on BrandLab to download, click here to view the campaign resources available to you.  

    These comprehensive resources includes all campaign assets, social copy and translations, which you can use across your communication channels. It also provides clear guidelines to help you adapt the campaign messaging and create your own content that highlights the value of a New Zealand education.  

    Together, we can amplify the campaign and strengthen New Zealand’s global position and tell a distinctive story to set New Zealand apart from international competitors.  

    Contact ENZ Acting Brand Lead Rachel Stanion via Rachel.Stanion@enz.govt.nz if you have questions or ideas about leveraging the campaign assets. If you have a success story on how the campaign assets have supported your work, please also get in touch. 

     

  • Meet our people

    Āriana Ngārimu-Goldsmith | Māori Advisor

    Hear from Āriana about our Māori name, what cultural capability looks like here, and why she loves what she does.

  • Learn more about global edtech opportunities

    Are you interested in making connections or forming partnerships with education publishers, game developers, ICT companies and educationalists?

    Do you want to showcase your edtech tool and learn about how and why teachers and their students are using technology in the classroom?

    If the answer is yes, then register now for the Education Technology Summit on 5-6 July at Massey University’s innovation hub in Albany, Auckland. 

    For those of you from edtech companies outside of Auckland we have 20 heavily discounted tickets to give away. The money you save will get you to Auckland!

    Just tell us how much you think educational exports ($ million) contribute to GDP by 31 May.  The closest answers will get you a ticket to the two day summit for just $100 – a prize valued at $295. Send your answer to adele.bryant@enz.govt.nz.

    Following feedback from previous annual Edtech for Export (et4e) conferences, this year ENZ is supporting the New Zealand Technology Industry Association in bringing educators and edtech businesses together at the same event.

    This year’s more collaborative approach – bringing creators and users together – will provide a platform for the growth and development of sustainable and relevant edtech tools for the domestic and export markets.

    The Education Technology Summit programme offers separate Edtech for Export and Tech and Pedagogy streams, and plenty of opportunity for interaction between the two. 

    The programme includes export capability building sessions as well as the chance to hear from local and international speakers on global edtech trends and tips for exporting.

    Presenters include:

    • Betsy Corcoran, CEO of EdSurge, an award-winning US news and information source on edtech, will speak on “Mind sets and the future of educational technology”. 

    • Dan Milward of Gamefroot, a provider of online game creation software that teaches programming code in a fun and interactive way

    • Graeme Cosslett, CEO of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER)    

    And, if you’re still wondering whether or not to make the Summit a ‘must attend’ event in your calendar, here’s a success story that had its beginnings in the et4e conference in 2013: 

    Gamefroot and NZCER are a great example of the power of deep collaboration between educational researchers and game makers.  Gamefroot’s Dan Milward and Rachel Bolstad of NZCER worked in the same Wellington building but did not realise they shared a common interest in educational games until they met at et4e 2013.  Since then, they have worked together to develop and launch a unique online game for teachers and policy makers called Curriculum for the Future: the Digital Game. 

    If you have any queries about the Education Technology Summit, contact Business Development Manager, Adele Bryant at adele.bryant@enz.govt.nz.

    Otherwise, see you in Auckland in July!   

  • EdTech World Tour in New Zealand

    The Franco-German researchers have been assessing global edtech trends and ecosystems which support edtech adoption and innovation, and will present their findings to the EdTechXEurope conference in June.

    While the US dominates the edtech sector Svenia and Audrey were curious to find out and report on what is happening in other parts of the world.  Their Edtech World Tour started in France in October 2015 and included the United States, Chile, Australia, Korea, India and South Africa. 

    Education New Zealand Business Development Manager, Adele Bryant, hosted Svenia and Audrey’s visit to New Zealand from 7-14 December 2015 between the Chilean and Australian leg of the tour.  During their time here, they visited education institutions, edtech companies and government agencies in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin, recording what they saw and heard on their social media platforms.

    From an inspiring Point England School in Auckland, to a Wellington edtech community meetup, and on to Dunedin’s ADInstruments and its high quality life sciences educational products, Audrey and Svenia were welcomed and impressed by New Zealand’s approach to using and developing edtech.

    Audrey and Svenia made the following observations from their time in New Zealand: “New Zealand has been of great inspiration to us as we feel the country has understood the way Edtech has to be implemented.  No need to roll out devices and new edtech tools if neither the infrastructure nor the teacher training is there. 

    “The combination of the government’s efforts – together with Network for Learning – to bring high speed internet connection to all New Zealand schools and the work of MindLab in training New Zealand teachers in new technology has a huge potential to make New Zealand the next model for successful edtech use in schools.”

    At each call they asked the same question “What does edtech mean to you?”  The resulting videos have been uploaded to their website, providing insights into the different perspectives of teachers and developers.  View a compilation of the New Zealand videos here and go to the tour’s Twitter feed to see more about the whole tour.

    In the New Zealand newsletter they compiled after their visit, Svenia and Audrey noted that “New Zealand’s high quality and innovative education system has proven a perfect ecosystem for Edtech when combined with its entrepreneurial and creative culture”.  You can read about their time in New Zealand visit here. 

  • Around the world in five: News round-up 3 March 2016

    THAILAND 

    The Bangkok Post reports on the pace of progress to reform the education system in Thailand, the impact of this on Thai people and the Thai economy, and the flow on effects of intense competition for international schools in Bangkok. The article states Thailand may now be ready to increasingly look to foreign partners to make progress; the Education Ministry is reported to be working with Cambridge University to reform English language teaching and assessment and talking to education officials in Finland. 


    GLOBAL

    Research in to the regional differences in motivations, goals and behaviours of students seeking to study internationally culminated in FPP Edu Media producing a report that provides insights in to which messages and education offerings resonate in which markets. Download the report here.


    JAPAN 

    This month the Japan Business Federation, Keidanren, has brought forward the national start date for its companies’ rigorous graduate hiring processes, with mixed views to date on the impact for Japanese students studying abroad. From this year the association has advised members to begin interviewing students from June for job offers in October. Encouragingly, Keidanren’s guidelines have suggested companies make allowances for students abroad when hiring. The PIE News provides more detail.


    SAUDI ARABIA 

    The recently appointed Minister Mohammed Al Isa has signaled that the Ministry [link in Arabic] will review a long-standing ban on foreign universities being established in Saudi, and commented that private education will ‘drive the future of the education sector’.


    MALAYSIA

    The Malaysian government has reported that it is on track to meet its goal of attracting 200,000 international students annually by 2020. Earlier this month it announced that all university students will be required to pass English language, currently taught as a second language, in order to graduate from university. The government expects a focus on English languages skills at all levels of its education system will make Malaysia a more attractive international education destination. Read more in The PIE News.

  • 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. 

  • Korea alumni association reinvigorated

    The Association has been energised by the arrival of new members, including recent graduates, and has plans for championing the New Zealand education story with prospective students in Korea and with industry.

    Prime Minister Key met 13 alumni of New Zealand education institutions – both Koreans and New Zealanders now based in Korea – who briefed him on the Association’s future direction and activities, and shared their study experiences in New Zealand. The alumni present at the event hold a wide range of positions including fashion designer, music company executive, children’s book illustrator, attorney, CEO of a technology company, a former professor of design and officers in the Korean military.

    “A New Zealand education provides many Korean students with a platform from which to launch successful careers in business, academia, and a range of other industries in Korea and New Zealand,” said Lisa Futschek, Education New Zealand’s Regional Director for Americas, Japan, and Korea.

    “New Zealand education has strong links with industry and business, meaning New Zealand-educated graduates are work-ready, innovative and flexible. The diversity of the local Korean-Kiwi community in Korea shows the range of choices that can open up with a New Zealand education.”

    The Association will organise various activities catering to shared interests and goals of other Korean-Kiwi community such as job opportunities, charitable activities, and a grand networking event in October 2015.

    To find out more and join (or recommend a friend that they join!): https://www.facebook.com/NZAAkorea

  • IEGF funding broadens markets

    Unsure how you can use the International Education Growth Fund (IEGF) to help innovate your offering?

    We talked to Mike Walmsley, Chief Executive of Code Avengers, about how he has used the IEGF to grow his business.

    ENZ: So Mike, what’s Code Avengers all about?

    Mike: We have developed an online learning platform that teaches people how to build their own apps, games and websites in a way that is effective and fun as possible.

    We are looking to expand into other related subject areas. Starting with a design focus – so, not only how to code software but also how to make it look nice. And, moving on to things like copy writing – making sure the content on your website or app engages learners – and tips on digital marketing that will get people actually using the product!

    What has the International Education Growth Fund enabled you to do?

    Our IEGF proposal was for internationalising our website. Our online courses contain a whole series of interactive exercises where people actually write code and build products as they learn. Initially, the instructions in these exercises were only available in English and those who didn’t have a reading age above 12 would struggle to follow them.

    The fund enabled us to translate the course material into other languages – Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch! We’re also working on a Japanese translation. Thankfully, we’d developed the material with this in mind, so the translation process has been relatively straightforward.

    Dutch is sort of the odd one out there. How that arose, was that one of our customers in the Netherlands offered to translate the content into Dutch while she was on holiday in Thailand. We jumped at the chance, and used that as a translation test case, which was really helpful.

    This young woman is now working with us full time on marketing and promoting Code Avengers, including the code camps and clubs that we run. The IEGF funding has also enabled her to promote our products and engage partner organisations in other parts of Europe.

    While we’re here, do you have any advice for others considering launching an EdTech business?

    In any start up, passion is the key. You’ve got big competition, there are a lot of challenges and it’s not easy. In my case, I’m also doing a PhD part time and have a couple of kids, so that all adds to the challenge. For at least the first year and a half, I didn’t have anyone working with me full time, so really I think it’s the passion that keeps you going. The passion, combined with the feedback you get from customers, means you end up building a product that they like. Those two things are key.

    What’s the most rewarding thing about your work?

    One is definitely the feedback you get from customers. One customer emailed us saying that for their whole life – for 45 years – they thought they were really bad at maths and useless at learning anything that was quantitative.

    After doing our courses, which have quite a bit of math in them, they’re feeling really good about themselves. They said, “for 45 years, I thought I was dumb and now it’s just I’ve been taught in the wrong way.”

    Realising that your work can actually have real impact on someone’s life is probably the most satisfying thing. 

    Find out more about Code Avengers here.

  • Meet the Dream NEW scholarship winners

    The initiative was launched in December 2015 by Prime Minister John Key as part of the FTA campaigning in Europe. The scholarship offers EU students one study abroad semester in New Zealand (valued at $12,500 NZD) - sending one student to each of New Zealand’s eight universities.

    We received nearly 400 applications from across 21 EU countries, with the majority of students applying from Germany. Candidates were selected based on a combination of their fantastic academic results as well as creative motivational essays or videos.

    The winners begin their New Zealand adventure in February 2017, and as official ‘Kiwi Ambassadors’ will keep us updated throughout their time in New Zealand.

    Here the eight winners share with us the moment they heard the news, as well as what they are most looking forward to.

    Patrick Rebacz2Patrick Rebacz (from Germany, going to Massey University)

    “I have never been to New Zealand, so I am very curious about the culture, the landscape, the education system and the food. I am looking forward to meeting new people, getting lots of new ideas, being part of a great educational infrastructure and exploring the amazing landscapes. It will be an inspiring and rewarding experience.”

    Veronika Rudolf2Veronika Rudolf (from Germany, going to University of Waikato)

    "When I received the call about the Dream NEW Scholarship I couldn't believe it! Even after telling my family and friends, and starting the preparations, it still feels like a dream. I'm looking forward to my papers about Māori culture at the University of Waikato - I can't wait to start my journey and experience a whole new part of the world."

    Lisa Kullander SwedenLisa Kullander (from Sweden, going to Lincoln University)

    “I was so excited when I found out that I won that I wanted to jump and scream with joy. It has given me the opportunity to fulfil my dream to study in New Zealand. There are so many things that I am looking forward to, like exploring the amazing nature. But as a landscape architecture student, what makes me most excited is all the knowledge and inspiration this opportunity will provide me with.” 

    Marvin StuedeMarvin Stüde (from Germany, going to University of Auckland)

    “I am most excited to explore the beautiful country and to attend interesting courses about topics which are not taught at my home university. I have no doubt that I will have a great time during my study abroad!”

    Read his essay submission here.

    Laura SchnelleLaura Schnelle (from Germany, going to University of Canterbury)

    "I am looking forward to living in Christchurch, exploring the great outdoors and learning new things about health education and motivational psychology!"

    Read her essay entry here.

    Simone GrilliSimone Grilli (from Italy, going to Auckland University of Technology)

    “I am definitely ready for this new adventure and know it will be one of the most important of my life. My mind is focused on the beautiful landscapes of New Zealand, the unique culture and the All Blacks - the best rugby team in the World!”

    Anna CzerwinskaAnna Czerwinska (from Poland, going to Victoria University of Wellington)

    “I only shared the news with my best friend, my boyfriend and my sister – telling them that it could not be true, it was a dream. During the first week I didn’t tell anyone else about it - I still can't believe that it really happened!”

    Watch her video entry here.

    Svenja NiederkromeSvenja Niederkrome (from Germany going to University of Otago)

    “I can’t put into words how happy I was when I found out that I’m one of the lucky recipients! For me, New Zealand is a little paradise at the other side of the world and I can’t wait to spend a whole term studying in such a unique place!”

    Watch her video entry here.

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