The 20th Annual New Zealand International Education Conference in Auckland was the largest in the event’s history, with over 500 people attending.

Among the highlights were a visit from the Prime Minister, presentations by Hon Steven Joyce, ENZ’s acting Chief Executive Kathy Phillips, 2010 New Zealander of the Year, Sir Ray Avery, Deputy Chief Executive of Immigration, Nigel Bickle, and digital marketing guru Douglas Lin of Proximity China.

Rt Hon John Key meets some Conference delegates

The International Education Excellence Awards were presented at the Conference by Sir Ray Avery. This year’s winners were:

Excellence in Marketing: Botany Downs Secondary College
Excellence in Innovation/Internationalisation: Long Bay College
Excellence in Student Support (tie): Spotswood College, Victoria University of Wellington

For more information about the award winners, please see our media release HERE.

The Agent of the Year also received her award from Sir Ray Avery. Kristine Hausch of Hausch & Partner attended the Conference courtesy of Education New Zealand.

Sir Ray Avery and Kristine Hausch

To help us make the next conference better than ever we would love to hear your feedback, take our short online survey HERE and be in to win a free registration to next year’s conference.

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The Education Amendment Bill (4) has been passed by Parliament, allowing for the creation of a new Crown Agency called Education New Zealand. The Agency will begin to operate on September 1st with a head office in Wellington, and offshore staff in a number of locations.

Charles Finny has been selected to Chair the new Agency, and further board appointments are expected shortly. An interim Chief Executive, Lester Wolfreys, will be in place until the new board has an opportunity to recruit a permanent Chief Executive.

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Education New Zealand is pleased to announce another round of agent and media inbound familiarization visits.

Visitors from Vietnam
We are organizing an inbound Familiarization visit for four NZ Specialist Agents from Vietnam mid-November this year. Institutions who are interested in hosting these agents please click the link below to register your interest. Institutions will be selected on a first come first served basis.

Registrations are open only until September 8, 2011. Click HERE to register

We are organizing inbound Familiarization visits for NZ Specialist Agents from Malaysia and Sri Lanka in mid-November this year as well. Registration will be opened soon, please check our website for details and registration.

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Thanks to those who entered our competition by returning the PACE Feedback Form during Conference. Around 90 entries were received.  We were thrilled to receive such positive feedback through this process.

A random draw was held on Friday afternoon from all entries, and the prize was $500 off an upcoming PACE event registration fee for the winner’s school. The lucky winner was Wendy Jochem, Deputy Principal of Freyberg High School.

200 copies of the Draft PACE 2012 Calendar were distributed during the PACE session at Conference. A downloadable version is also available online HERE.  

The draft is open for consultation until Friday 16th September.  In October the final PACE 2012 Wall Planner will be available to order via an online link, to be announced via E-News.

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The teams have been selected for the “Earth Food” Hangi Fusion Cook-Off competition to be held as part of the Real NZ Festival. Education New Zealand would like to thank all of the institutions that took the time to submit an entry.

The following ten institutions will be competing at the event:
-AUT
-Burnside High School
-CPIT
-Long Bay College
-Quantum Education Group (Culinary Institute of New Zealand)
-Shirley Boys' High School
-The Professional Bar and Restaurant School
-Unique New Zealand
-University of Waikato
-Whitireia Community Polytechnic

Along with the teams, representatives from ENZ and some regional groups will be on hand to talk to visitors about the benefits of studying in New Zealand.

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The entire Education New Zealand Trust team would like to take this opportunity to thank Hon David Caygill, Chair of the ENZ Trust, the ENZ Trust Board members, and of course you the industry, for your splendid contribution and support over the last several years. 

We have had many questions in regard to the future of the Trust, and we have consulted on this question, including a session at the conference.  Thanks to everyone who responded.  The board has not formally resolved to wind up. But at this point the trustees do not feel they have a mandate to continue. They will meet again for what is likely to be their final meeting in November. 

Meanwhile ENZ Trust wishes the new agency well.

Thank you again.

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