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Double celebration in the Philippines
Education New Zealand (ENZ) continued to build momentum in the Philippines last week, with an agent seminar in the province of Cebu which hosted more than 40 guests including 13 New Zealand providers.
“It’s been fantastic to witness the growth of student numbers from the Philippines and a big focus for us now is working alongside our key partners to ensure the momentum continues,” said Ben Burrowes, ENZ Regional Communications Manager, South East Asia.
The Philippines saw an 83% growth in student numbers in 2015, making it New Zealand’s fastest growing international student market.
WHITNEY IRWIN FROM THE SOUTHERN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY WITH AGENTS

New Zealand and the Philippines are also celebrating 50 years of bilateral relations this year.
David Strachan, the New Zealand Ambassador to the Philippines, hosted an anniversary event after the seminar. Guests included New Zealand providers, agents, alumni and a number of other key partners based in Cebu.
Tertiary College celebrates educational relationship with China
New Zealand Tertiary College (NZTC) continues to lead the way in early childhood education learning in China.
NZTC recently celebrated the inaugural graduation of 142 students who completed a New Zealand Qualifications Authority-approved Certificate in Early Childhood Teaching (level six) as part of the Sino-New Zealand Cooperation Programme.
Supported by Education New Zealand (ENZ) throughout the establishment of the cooperation programme, Alexandra Grace, ENZ’s Regional Director for Greater China, attended the ceremony and shared a special message with the graduates.
“Relationships between countries are shaped by leaders, but developed by people. As the first cohort of graduates you are now dual ambassadors for China and New Zealand. You hold in your hands, in your hearts, and in your minds an understanding of both our countries which is necessary to take the New Zealand – China relationship to greater heights,” said Ms Grace.
The programme began in 2013 and, is a collaboration between NZTC, Fujian Preschool Education College and the education agency China Liberal Technology Development Company Limited to support early childhood teacher education in China.
A strong educational relationship has developed between NZTC and China, further strengthened by the addition of NZTC to the Chinese Ministry of Education’s Study Abroad List in December 2015.
NZTC Chief Executive, Selena Fox, was at the inaugural graduation in Fuzhou to award the graduates their certificates and honour two outstanding graduates with an Academic Excellence and an NZTC Values award.
“This inaugural event is a symbol of the successful cooperation that crosses oceans, languages and cultures between New Zealand and China as we come together because of our shared commitment to the education of teachers and the children of China,” said Ms Fox.
Further educational opportunities are available for the graduates as they consider completing an NZTC Bachelor of Education (ECE) in China or New Zealand, or a teaching qualification in New Zealand.
For more information visit www.nztertiarycollege.ac.nz
ALEXANDRA GRACE, ENZ REGIONAL DIRECTOR GREATER CHINA, AND SELENA FOX CE NZTC WITH THE GRADUATES
Last chance to register for NZIEC 2016
It's your last chance to register for the New Zealand International Education Conference (NZIEC) and we've made some changes to conference arrangements. Find out more here.
This year's conference celebrates 25 years of the NZIEC being held and we're planning a special event for over 500 delegates at the ANZ Viaduct Events Centre, Auckland.
Payment deadlines
The final date to register and pay by invoice is Monday 25 July 2016. After that, payment can only be made by credit card. Please note that payment must be received prior to attending NZIEC 2016, so please ensure your organisation has paid your invoice.
Breakout sessions
With places for the conference selling like hotcakes, a number of breakout sessions are already at capacity. Interest in our market Question & Answer sessions has exceeded our expectations so we've moved these sessions from the exhibition hall to breakout rooms. These sessions will now feature a slightly longer presentation on the specific market (no more than 20 minutes) before opening the floor to questions from the audience.
Conference app
Stay tuned for the launch of our conference app in August. The app will enable you to follow your schedule, connect with other delegates, and follow our social media conversation.
Find out more
To register, or find out more, check out www.nziec.co.nz
Prime Minister’s Scholarships extended to Latin America
The scholarships will mean more young Kiwis are exposed to Latin American countries and cultures, and this will strengthen New Zealand’s ability to engage with key Latin American trading partners in the future.
The Prime Minister’s Scholarships for Latin America (PMSLA) will complement the successful Prime Minister’s Scholarships for Asia initiative. Under that programme 751 scholarships for Kiwi students to study in Asia have been awarded since it was implemented in 2013.
The expanded scholarships programme will strengthen international linkages with an area of the world which is becoming increasingly important for New Zealand trade and business. Latin American and Asian destinations are all just one direct flight away, making them more accessible and easier to work with.
The scholarships are part of the $761.4 million ‘Innovative New Zealand’ budget package, $43.5 million of that is to develop stronger international connections for tertiary students. This includes the introduction of the PMSLA, the expansion of the Prime Minister’s Scholarships for Asia and the introduction of three Centres of Asia Pacific Excellence at universities.
Nominations for the first round of the PMSLA will open on 1 September 2016 and will be awarded in November 2016. The scholarships will be administered by Education New Zealand. More information about the scholarships can be found here.
Customising website content
StudyinNewZealand.govt.nz is moving to SilverStripe, a flexible content management system that makes it easier to update information.
By early August, institutions will be able to provide market-specific content on the site. Content will be searchable by local language.
Users will also see a refreshed home page and powerful new content, including pages for student stories, quick facts and events for students.
By September, each institution will have access to its own administration area. Using the same login they have now, institutions will be able to upload and edit their own course information, or continue using the Hot Courses information.
Each institution’s administration area will also have its own dashboard. Dashboards will display key visitor behaviour, including the number of qualified referral leads, the countries they’re from, and which programmes they’re for.
The SilverStripe migration is a great opportunity for institutions to check and update the data on the site.
Registrations now open for 2016 IIE Summit on Generation Study Abroad
The U.S. welcome mat is out.
The Institute of International Education (IIE) welcomes participation from New Zealand at the 2016 IIE Summit on Generation Study Abroad.
The summit will take place from October 23-25, 2016 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. The summit will bring education, government and business leaders together for discussions on international experience as a key part of a 21st century education and how to make study abroad opportunities available to all.
It is more important than ever that U.S. students graduate with the international, intercultural, and language skills that they will need to help solve today’s global challenges.
The 2016 IIE Summit is part of IIE’s Generation Study Abroad®, a five year initiative to double the number of U.S. students studying abroad by the end of the decade.
Generation Study Abroad seeks to increase and diversify participation by bringing higher education institutions, employers, governments, teachers, associations and others to build on current best practices. They are also looking at new ways to extend study abroad opportunities and resources to tens of thousands of college students whose needs are not currently served by existing study abroad programmes.
More than 600 participants from across the US and from around the world are expected to attend the Summit.
Launch of a visa-free guide for students
To help students prepare to enter New Zealand, Education New Zealand and Immigration New Zealand have launched a guide including the information required to enter New Zealand visa free. The guide is also available in Arabic and is particularly helpful for students travelling from the Gulf-Co-operation Council Countries during the Northern Hemisphere summer. You can check out both versions of the Travelling and Studying in New Zealand guide here.
Further translations will be added in due course.
If you've got students travelling to New Zealand from visa-waiver countries, or you're a student advisor in these countries then you may want to consider familiarising yourself with, and distributing the brochure.
Putting New Zealand in agents’ hearts and on their maps
Education New Zealand (ENZ) recently organised a series of agent familiarisation tours.
Four groups were immersed in New Zealand’s learning, living and working opportunities for international students.
Agents from Brazil, Colombia, South Korea and Saudi Arabia were treated to tours of New Zealand’s special places – from regional centres to our bigger cities.
ENZ’s regional and international teams organised the programmes and toured with the agents over May and June. They were shown the full spectrum of the sector, and were also given updates and presentations from government agencies like Immigration New Zealand and the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA.
“The agents enjoyed and appreciated the chance to learn about education in New Zealand, meet current international students and understand the distinctive offerings for students across all of New Zealand,” said Greg Scott, ENZ Regional Programme Manager.
The tour included interactive activities, including an emphasis on education pathways, applied learning and creative technologies, and special open-invitation networking opportunities, like the Networking Starts at Home event
The agents visited Taranaki, Nelson, Canterbury, Waiuku, Hamilton, Dunedin, Queenstown and Napier.
COLOMBIAN AGENTS SARA GAMEZ AND ANA KARINA FAJARDIO ENJOY TIME AT AUT BY THE NGA WAI O HOROTIU MARAE

“As our regional centres become better known international education destinations, the agent familiarisation tours demonstrated how each regional centre has a unique story and value proposition that can appeal to different student interests,” says Greg Scott.
The potential benefit to increasing the profile of New Zealand education amongst all these markets is immense.
“The feedback from the participating agents was extremely positive and heartfelt,” says Sarah Gauthier, ENZ Regional Project Manager.
“We ensured the agents enjoyed themselves and their time in New Zealand. They enjoyed tourist activities, speaking to international students and their homestay families and gaining a deeper understanding overall of the value of a New Zealand education.”
“We are seeing lots of photos of New Zealand on the agents’ social media feeds and their agencies’ websites,” says Jo Keane, ENZ Regional Project Manager.
“We’d like to thank all the people, organisations and regional groups that supported these familiarisations,” says Sarah Gauthier.
“It was a true Team New Zealand effort. We appreciated the time everyone took to host us, meet the agents, organise tours and ensure that the students were available to speak to the agents in their own language.
“There’s nothing like hearing why New Zealand is such a great place to be a student than from real international students. By speaking about their study, lifestyle and work opportunities, the tours were really brought to life,” she says.
KOREAN AGENTS ENJOY THE NELSON SUNSHINE
Chilean delegation visits New Zealand
A Chilean delegation visited the Waikato, Otago and Manukau Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) recently.
The delegation included officials from the Chilean government scholarship scheme ‘Tecnicos para Chile’ (Technicians for Chile) and was hosted by Education New Zealand. The purpose was to enable the Chileans to see first- hand the New Zealand ITPs who are receiving Chilean students under their government’s scheme, to meet staff and view the facilities.
The Tecnicos para Chile scholarship programme, was established in 2010 by the Chilean government with the aim of upskilling technicians and providing economic and social benefit back to Chile. The scholarship focus is different in each receiving country with the New Zealand programmes focusing on sports, shipping-logistics, agriculture and sustainability.
Three hundred scholarships are awarded annually for international study, for up to two years, including attending English language classes. Since 2011, up to 20 Chilean scholarship students have studied in New Zealand annually. Applicants apply for a vocational training course approved by the Chilean agencies, with the pre-requisite that they must have already completed a degree and have two years’ work experience.
The Chilean students currently study at Waikato Institute of Technology and Otago Polytechnic both of which have partnership agreements in place with the Chilean Ministry of Education. As a result of the visit, a new partnership agreement has been signed with the Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) which will receive Tecnicos para Chile students in the future. The delegation were very impressed with what they saw at all three ITPs during their trip. “Highlights included the quality of the technical training and the innovation in New Zealand’s teaching methodology,” said Carmen Luz Farias, Director, Tecnicos para Chile.
In future, these scholarships will be expanded to include a programme aimed at improving and enhancing the skills of Chilean teachers delivering the agriculture curriculum at secondary school level. This ‘Train the Trainer’ programme will be run by Otago Polytechnic.
“Otago Polytechnic has been grateful to have the Tecnicos para Chile delegation visit both our Dunedin and Cromwell campuses. The students who participate in the scholarship programme are of a high standard. We highly value this market and it is a great fit for Otago Polytechnic,” says Alex Huffadine, International Director, Otago Polytechnic. “We are looking forward to the increased number of programmes in the future with Tecnicos para Chile, and in particular ‘Train the Trainer.”
If you would like to know more about Tecnicos para Chile contact Javiera Visedo Javiera.Visedo@enz.govt.nz
AT OTAGO POLYTECHNIC CROMWELL CAMPUS. LEFT TO RIGHT - ALEX HUFFADINE DIRECTOR OTAGO POLYTECHNIC, WILLIAM PEREIRA CHILEAN SCHOLARSHIP STUDENT, SIU YIN ANDREANI INTERNATIONAL COORDINATOR AND CARMEN LUZ FARIAS DIRECTOR
Economic valuation of international education underway
An update of the economic valuation of the international education industry is currently underway in New Zealand.
Education New Zealand is responsible for commissioning an economic valuation analysis of the international education industry. This research provides the quantitative evidence for the industry’s contribution to New Zealand.
Infometrics and National Research Bureau have been commissioned by ENZ to estimate the current size of the international education industry including expenditure by foreign students in New Zealand. The research includes surveying international students (and in some cases their guardians), via either a web-based or paper survey.
The valuation follows a similar exercise in 2012 /2013 when students were also surveyed. An interim valuation was produced in 2014 which valued the international education industry, at $2.85 billion, supporting more than 30,000 jobs.
A copy of the report and an infographic of key findings are downloadable here.
An updated economic valuation report is expected in October 2016.