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ENZ updates agents on future plans at ANZA
ANZA is held in New Zealand every three years with this year’s event held at SkyCity Auckland.
Almost 450 participants from 49 countries attended. Agents from China, India, Colombia, Brazil and Viet Nam were most heavily represented. A quarter of agents were taking part in their first ANZA workshop and many had not visited New Zealand before.
ENZ Manager Agents, Dan Smidt speaks at the workshop
“We talked about ENZ’s plans to increasingly engage with quality agents. We want to ensure that quality agents have available to them the most effective tools, resources and training they need to promote New Zealand as a high quality and welcoming international study destination.ENZ Manager Agents, Dan Smidt, said ENZ used the opportunity to give an update on ENZ’s plans for agent engagement.
“We discussed the upcoming re-launch of the Education New Zealand Recognised Agents (ENZRA) programme and the online agent training programme we are creating.
“We also talked about how the new MyStudy platform on the Study in New Zealand website can help agents to advise prospective students on study options in New Zealand.”
ENZ Business Development Manager, Jo Keane, said ENZ staff offered a range of other information, support and advice.
“One of our team ran a seminar on how agents and providers can grow their business profile on Facebook using the collateral and material on ENZ’s current social channels.
“We also ran a seminar focusing on the innovative ways that a number of New Zealand’s regions support agents and grow advocacy through the creation of outstanding student experiences.
Education New Zealand’s plenary presentation in the early evening was particularly well received.
“We talked about our current FutureProof campaign and showed our new FutureProof video, which people loved.
“We also gave an overview of the Student Wellbeing Strategy and the work being done to move from a good-to-great student experience.”
Following the conference, 11 familiarisation tours took place around New Zealand including to Taranaki and Christchurch.
ANZA will next be held in New Zealand in April 2021 at the new Christchurch Convention Centre.
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NZ forges fruitful partnership with Paraná state, Brazil’s education powerhouse
Following a visit to New Zealand universities in September by a delegation of authorities from Paraná state, Brazil, the Latin America Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence organised a reciprocal trip for a group of New Zealand educational representatives to go to Curitiba, Paraná’s capital city. The purpose of the visit was for the New Zealand delegation to get a closer look at the research structure of this southern Brazilian state and discuss future pathways for collaboration between Brazilian and New Zealand students and researchers.
The public higher education system of Paraná is made up of seven state universities and three federal institutions spread across several cities, with in-person and distance learning. They are quality research and teaching institutions, with substantial scientific production capacity and academic prestige. Paraná state has a population of roughly 11 million people.
New Zealand delegation meets with representatives of the State Secretariat for Science, Technology and Higher Education of Paraná and deans of state universities.
During the meetings in the capital of Paraná, held in mid-October, there were several discussions with deans and vice-deans of state universities, representatives of the State Secretariat for Science, Technology and Higher Education and the Araucária Foundation, a state-funded institution that focuses on promoting high-level scientific research.
New Zealand delegation at the Araucária Foundation, which funds scientific research
The meetings were attended by Secretary Aldo Nelson Bona and his team; market development manager of Education New Zealand Manapou ki te Ao (ENZ) in Brazil, Bruna de Natale; Nicole Freeman, from the Latin America Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence; as well as representatives from 3 of the 8 New Zealand universities: Frank Bloomfield, from The University of Auckland, Leonel Alvarado, from Massey University and Jannik Haas, from the University of Canterbury.
Frank Bloomfield is deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research and Innovation at the University of Auckland. During the visit he highlighted the importance of collaborating internationally with other universities to undertake research and how one cannot conduct research in your own country alone.
"I’ve had the pleasure of leading two delegations to Brazil this year. Firstly, in April for the Faubai conference, when we also had the opportunity to talk to some professors from leading Brazilian universities. And now this visit.
“Despite our differing geographic and population sizes, the research priorities of our countries are very similar. We have heard from our colleagues here in Brazil that we have similar priorities but also similar problems,” said Frank.
“An example of this is in agriculture and how we need to think about using new techniques and new technologies such as genomics to improve our productivity in agriculture. This also applies to a whole host of different areas in which our priorities are similar including freshwater and culture, engineering, and chemical sciences, for example,” added Frank.”
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