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• A taste of New Zealand

  Kicking off on 20 May, proceedings got underway with an invitation-only event, hosted by New Zealand’s Ambassador to the Philippines, David Strachan.

  ENZ engaged a number of successful New Zealand alumni for media interviews and delivered a keynote presentation to a highly engaged crowd at the Glorietta Mall, Makati City venue.

  

  The ENZ booth was particularly busy over the three days. A number of prospective students came prepared with specific questions, with many focusing on postgraduate study options.

  The Experience NZ event also coincided with the celebration of 50 years of diplomatic ties between New Zealand and the Philippines.

  This event was the latest in a series of in-market ENZ activities in the Philippines. It followed a successful agent seminar in Manila earlier this year.

  A second agent seminar is being held in Cebu on 14 July and is now open for registration.

  

   

• Contracting support to grow international education in schools

  The support for schools was signalled in the International Education Going for Growth Plan and announced by Education Minister Erica Stanford at the SIEBA hui in mid-May. 

  ENZ will run a tender to find an organisation to help schools establish processes to enrol international students and meet their regulatory obligations. We will also hold and manage the contract and report progress to the Minister on a quarterly basis. 

  The initiative will help schools lift capability at every stage of the international student journey, providing practical tools to attract and care for international students, and enabling sustainable growth across the system. 

  An independent organisation will deliver this work, recognising that sector expertise and established networks are key to building school capability and capacity.  

  All schools can access the support, including those that do not currently enrol international fee-paying students. The intent is to lift capability across the schooling sector, not just in schools with established international recruitment programmes. 

  ENZ will finalise the scope and requirements of the tender before applications open in late June. The tender will be published on the Government Electronic Tender Service (GETS). 

• Showcasing New Zealand education at Expo Dubai

  Representatives from the University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand education technology company ByteEd and Education New Zealand Manapou ki te Ao met with key contacts and forged new relationships during their 22-25 January 2022 visit to the Expo.  

  Events were hosted at the New Zealand Pavilion, and the delegation invited education stakeholders to take a new look at what New Zealand education has to offer, including online and pathway options. Attendees heard more from New Zealand’s universities and vocational training sectors, learned about government-to-government opportunities, and met with innovative New Zealand EdTech companies working in the region.  The winners of the Global Kaitiakitanga Project, a sustainability-focused programme for New Zealand schools created by the NZ at Expo team and Young Enterprise (YES), also shared their student experience.   

  Guests at our events gained an insight into New Zealand’s unique cultural identity, with a tour through the New Zealand experience at the pavilion and performances from locally based kapa haka group Ngāti Koraha.  

  The leader of the education delegation, ENZ’s Regional Director, Americas, Middle East and Europe, Amy Rutherford, was interviewed by New Zealander Brandy Scott on the popular business breakfast show Dubai Eye. The interview aired on 24 January, to coincide with UNESCO’s International Day of Education.

  While in Dubai, the delegation took part in the launch of NCUK’s International Foundation Year (IFY) at the University of Wollongong in Dubai. The IFY programme will lead to UAE and other students from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and further afield studying at any of New Zealand’s eight universities in 2023 and beyond.  

  ENZ also held a workshop with delegates to look at ways to align our efforts in the GCC countries and wider Middle East region.  

  Expo is the largest global event to take place since the Covid-19 pandemic began. As at the end of January, organisers had recorded 11,608,240 visits to Expo, and the New Zealand Pavilion had over 750,000 visitors.  

  “It was important for ENZ and delegation members to show up and tell the New Zealand education story to the world.  New Zealand remains keen to cooperate with partners on education, we have innovative ways to offer a New Zealand education, and we are looking forward to welcoming students to New Zealand again as soon as border restrictions allow,” Amy Rutherford says. 

  If you are interested to hear more about how ENZ can support your organisation’s approach in the region, please contact Bronwyn Shanks, ENZ’s Senior Advisor – Special Projects, Middle East and Europe, bronwyn.shanks@enz.govt.nz.

• Visit to Education New Zealand to learn about the digital marketing programme

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• Charan overcomes obstacles to finally return to New Zealand study

  Having to dig deep to overcome the disruption to his education caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, he recently returned to Lincoln University to pick up where he left off. He is part of the second cohort of 1000 international students able to come back to New Zealand to complete their studies after being caught offshore when border restrictions began in March 2020. 

  As Covid spread, the Indian student was recalled to New Zealand only six weeks into his semester exchange at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, but our border closed while he stood in line at Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport.  

  “It was pretty tense,” he says. “The flight I had initially booked was cancelled, so I had to book the next earliest flight which was at 7am the next day. I reached the airport around 2am but while waiting for my boarding pass, I received a call from New Zealand asking me not to board the flight as the borders were closing that night.”  

  Charan could not even get back to India, as the airports he would need to transit in were closed. At the time, he was in the third year of his Bachelor of Agricultural Science degree, with one year left to complete. 

  He says the staff at both universities were super-helpful and after many flurried emails and calls, it was agreed he could return to his studies at Wageningen. With no sign of the border opening in June he was granted permission to stay until the end of the year, and he managed to secure an extension to his Erasmus scholarship which funded his living costs. 

  “I decided I was going to treat what was happening as an adventure”

  Covid disruption a stressful time 

  But the disruption came at a price. The high-achieving student failed his first test after the stressful experience at the airport. “It took me some time to accept what had happened. I just couldn’t focus on study.” But his second attempt was successful, and he never looked back.  

  “I decided I was going to treat what was happening as an adventure, and to make the most of my time in the Netherlands.”  

  By the end of 2020, Charan was still unable to return to New Zealand and he made the decision go home to India. “The first four months were pretty chaotic, but I was really blessed I could be with my family.” 

  He didn’t know how long he would be in India but was committed to getting back to Lincoln to complete his degree. “I didn’t want to study remotely. I decided it was better to have time off and then return to do my Honours year.” 

  In the end, it took another year and multiple attempts at securing a place in MIQ before he could return to New Zealand. “When they brought in the lottery system, I had to wake up at 3am each week to log in and try and secure a place. I’m still trying to look at the experience positively and I know that I have stories to share in the years to come!” 

  Charan arrived back in Christchurch in January and is excited to be underway with his Honours year. He is working with Professor Clive Kaiser at Lincoln University’s new Centre of Excellence for Potato Research and Extension.  

  Potato research of value internationally 

  He is researching the development of a rapid test for the identification of Candidatus Liberibacter in potato leaves and tubers. The bacterium causes Zebra chip, a disorder of potatoes which creates distinctive stripes in the flesh and poses a threat to commercial potato growers. Rapid identification of affected plants in the field will help reduce cost and wastage for the $1 billion potato industry in New Zealand.  

  “I was keen to be involved in this research because I like solving problems and this is a real-world problem with big implications here and overseas,” Charan says. “Potatoes are grown all around the world and almost every culture uses them as a staple part of their diet. So, this research will be of value internationally.” 

  Charan is eyeing a future in vertical farming, an intensive form of horticulture where crops are grown in trays indoors under controlled conditions and he hopes to one day run his own business.  

  He says studying at Lincoln has been “an amazing experience” where he has made friends with New Zealand students and other international students. “I learned a lot about different cultures from them.” 

  Charan describes the challenges that Covid has thrown at him as “daunting” but says that overcoming them has made him more resilient. He is grateful to be back on track with his international education in New Zealand, a place which “keeps you grounded and allows you to focus on your study”.     

• Around the world in five

  UK

  ELT sector concerns over rising agent costs

  English language training institutions have voiced concerns that the rising commission rates of education agents are making it unsustainable for schools to pay.

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  GLOBAL

  Bilingual education – a competitive advantage

  Offering students a bilingual education could be key to improving access to higher education, provide opportunities to study abroad and improve future job prospects in an increasingly globalised world.

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  SOUTH KOREA

  Fourth straight year of strong international student growth

  Enrolments from Viet Nam are a strong factor in South Korea’s overall international student growth of nearly 70 percent since 2014.

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  BRAZIL

  EMI courses in Brazil grow to more than 1,000

  A growing number of higher education institutions in Brazil are recognising the importance of offering English as Medium of Instruction courses, with the number of EMI courses rising from 671 in 2016 to over 1,000 in 2018.

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  CHINA

  The consolidation of private higher education

  With more than 740 private higher education institutions in China, and thousands of private vocational schools, China’s fragmented private higher education industry is expected to undergo a wave of consolidation over the next decade.

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• Magazine opportunity in Japan

  Japanese magazine producer Tomorrow Inc. is starting production on volume two of the Study in New Zealand magazine. The magazine is a comprehensive guide to study options across all sectors of the New Zealand education system – from early childhood through to tertiary education, and including English language schools.

  The magazine is produced with the support of ENZ, Tourism New Zealand and Air New Zealand. As well as informing people about our education system and institutions, Study in New Zealand is designed to pique readers’ interest in the New Zealand experience as a whole – our education, lifestyle and culture.   

  The magazine will be published in October 2016, when it will be available in bookstores throughout Japan and Thailand for around $13NZD. Both the Japanese and Thai editions will have a circulation of 10,000 copies each, and will be distributed at education fairs and to Japanese institutions and education agencies.  

  Study in New Zealand is also available online as an interactive web portal and all institutions and agencies advertising in the magazine will be featured on the web. Advertisers can choose to advertise in either Japan or Thailand, and discounts are available for those who choose to advertise in both editions.

  The rate for a full page advertisement in Study in New Zealand is around $2600 NZD, with a variety of other options available. Sample pages form the 2015 addition can be viewed here.

  The deadline for bookings is 15 July 2016.

  Those interested in finding out more about this promotional opportunity can contact either Fridrik Juliusson or Tom Amano. Fridrik and Tom will be in New Zealand from 29 May to 6 June, visiting institutions around New Zealand. Please contact them if you’d like to set up an appointment or a visit to your institution. 

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