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  • New enrolment guide for students

    Enrolment information has been the second-most requested content on SiNZ social media channels, so ENZ has created an enrolment guide to sit on the SiNZ website.

    The guide has two sections: how to apply to study at a primary, secondary or English language school, and how to apply to study at a tertiary institution.

    Lucia Alarcon, ENZ International Digital Project Manager, says the guide provides step by step information on the enrolment process for each of these levels of study.

    “We’ve included brief information about application procedures, including required documents, application fees, interviews and English language assessments. 

    “We make it clear that the information is a general guide only, with procedures varying between institutions.”

    The enrolment guide is part of ENZ’s new 5 Steps to Studying in New Zealand process, which breaks up the study abroad journey to help students understand how to get started.

    The 5 Steps encourage students to check out the practical content we’ve added to SiNZ in recent months. Along with the enrolment guide, the new content includes our Cost of Living and Explore NZ pages.

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  • UK NARIC workshop in Christchurch

    The National Agency for Recognition and Comparison of International qualifications (NARIC) United Kingdom (UK) is a leading provider of training on international qualifications on behalf of the UK government.

    There will be four sessions over the two days:

    Thursday 22 September

    Friday 23 September

    There is limited capacity for each session. Non-UK NARIC members can secure their spot at UK NARIC’s website.

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  • Call for speakers for NZIEC KI TUA 2023

    NZIEC KI TUA 2023 will be held in Ōtautahi Christchurch from 16 to 18 August 2023 at Te Pae Convention Centre. A welcome function will occur on Wednesday evening followed by two days of conference sessions on Thursday and Friday. 

    2023 marks the 30th time our conference will be held, and this year’s theme is Te Ara Ki Tua – the pathway ahead. As we celebrate this milestone, our theme encourages us to consider how our sector can thrive in the future.  

    We’re calling for speakers to help us explore the following sub-themes:  

    1. Excellent Experiences – How can we foster excellent experiences for international students studying with Aotearoa New Zealand? 

    2. Marketing Smarts – What are the most effective ways to market to and recruit international students?  

    3. Growing Global – How can we grow our relationships with international partners?  

    4. Authentically Aotearoa – How can our international education offerings tap into what makes our country special?  

    5. Fresh Offerings – How can we develop fresh programmes, products, services and partnerships and take them to the world?  

    Please refer to the NZIEC KI TUA website here for detailed information on the theme and sub-themes, session formats, tips for your abstract and biography, and speaker terms and conditions.  

    You can submit your speaking proposal through the NZIEC KI TUA Speaker Portal.  Submissions close on 22 May 2023.  

    If you have any questions, please contact us at nziec@enz.govt.nz.  

    We hope you will consider joining us at NZIEC KI TUA to discuss the key opportunities and challenges facing our sector as we discuss Te Ara Ki Tua.  

    An in-person format and early bird registration  

    Subject to pandemic settings, this year’s conference will be an in-person format. Sector feedback revealed a strong desire to return in-person, in part to facilitate kanohi-ki-te-kanohi connections after so many years apart.   

    We are not intending to offer a hybrid option (in-person and virtual format) this year as this requires additional resources to deliver and a hybrid approach results in inferior experiences for both audiences. To support attendance, and in recognition of the impact of Covid-19, a discounted early bird registration rate will be available this year.

  • New Sino-New Zealand vocational teacher training base opens

    The new training base will operate out of the Shaanxi Polytechnic Institute, a key institution partner for New Zealand ITPs and one of the leading vocational education colleges in Western China’s Shaanxi Province.

    It follows the first Sino-New Zealand vocational teacher training base launched in Qingdao Technical College late last year.

    Adele Bryant, ENZ’s Senior Advisor – China, said it’s a great opportunity to bring New Zealand best practice to more Chinese TVET teachers, particularly in areas such as curriculum design, quality assurance and assessment.

    “More Chinese TVET teachers will benefit from the tailor-made training programmes jointly developed by New Zealand and Chinese TVET experts, building on the Train the Trainers Programme that many Chinese vocational teachers have undertaken in New Zealand over the last few years,” said Adele.  

    An unveiling ceremony was held on 11 May at the Silk Road Education Cooperation Expo in Xi’an, with representatives from the Shaanxi Provincial Government, Department of International Cooperation and Exchange of the Chinese Ministry of Education (MoE) in attendance. 

    Other attendees included the President of Shaanxi Polytechnic Institute, Director of the Central Institute of Vocational and Technical Education, the Economic Counsellor from New Zealand Embassy Beijing and Tony O’Brien, Sino-New Zealand Project Director of the Model Vocational Education Programme.

    The training bases are part of the Model Vocational Education Programme work plan for 2018-2019. 

    The Chinese government released its National Implementation Plan for Vocational Education Reform in February this year, in which upskilling TVET teachers is a key priority, including through the building of 100 teacher training centres.

    Adele says this would open further teacher training opportunities for the New Zealand TVET sector.

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  • Attracting PhD students to New Zealand

    The PhD page highlights the initiatives that have given New Zealand an international marketing advantage in attracting PhD students from around the world.

    The page promotes the five key benefits of studying for a PhD here. International PhD students:

    1. pay the same fees as domestic students
    2. can enrol their children as domestic students in our state schools
    3. can work full-time
    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.   

    Students can check out the page to find out how our PhD programmes are structured, discover the career benefits of studying for a PhD in New Zealand, read case studies from current international students and learn how to apply – there are links to the PhD areas of each university’s website.

    Vietnamese student Tan Duc Do, for instance, decided to study undertake a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Auckland because of the inspiring teaching of his supervisor.

    “Most of the lecturers here are working mathematicians, so they can give insight and inspiration into the subject,” says Tan.

    For Jeffery Garae, a student from Vanuatu, the major attraction of studying Cyber Security in New Zealand was that international PhD students pay the same fees as local students.

    “I was looking at doing a Masters here and when I read about the PhD fees I thought, ‘Whoa – that’s an even better advantage,’” says Jeffery.

    The new PhD page also shines a spotlight on the academic and research performance of New Zealand universities, and on the wide range of subjects available for doctoral research.

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