Conference – Finalised Programme

There have been lots of recent updates - check out the current line up online HERE

We think this is an excellent line-up (check some highlights below). In fact, we think you will want to attend so many sessions that you may want to send more than one delegate!

So here’s the deal….
1st delegate - $750 (full Conference registration includes Thursday night)
2nd delegate - 33% discount
3rd (and subsequent) delegate - 50% discount
If you have already registered these discounts will apply to you as well!

Is $750 good value?

· A full three day programme
· All catering included (and a choice of loud music/quiet networking/both on the Thursday night)
· 38 sessions to choose from
· 12 international speakers
· 6 new research presentations
· 12 marketing focused PD type workshops from regions to e-tools
· Sector specific sessions

In short, there is a full programme for delegates from every sector or interest niche.

Some highlights from the programme:

· Get the lowdown on Rankings from Professor Simon Marginson, Australian Professorial Fellow & Professor of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne and adviser to the OECD on educational rankings.

· Interested in South America? Samir Zaveri is a hugely experienced operator in this region, having specialized in it for many years. Get the insights from a man who knows this market backwards.

· Hear how things are across the ditch from Helen Zimmerman, CEO, ACL Australia (Australia’s largest English language provider).

· Find out how European school students make their decisions around going to schools overseas from research undertaken by JWT Education and presented by Allison Doorbar.

· He’s from the Government – of course he’s here to help! – Hon. Dr Michael Cullen, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Tertiary Education (with responsibility for international education).

· Ireland is becoming a very active competitor in international education. What is going on in the Emerald Isle? Is it the ‘luck of the Irish’? Find out from John Lynch, Chief Executive, Education Ireland. 

· The official view from Mr Tran Ba Viet Dzung, Director General of International Co-operation, Ministry of Education and Training, Viet Nam. 

· Are we better value? Do they love us? What do they want? Dissemination of comparative costings research, industry benchmarking, and China and Viet Nam market research.

The conference dinner will be held on Thursday 9 August from 7pm.  THE BEAT GIRLS, one of New Zealand’s best known entertainment acts will provide the entertainment for the evening.  Additionally, we will have a completely separate lounge bar for those delegates who prefer to talk instead of dance the night away. 

For full programme, registration and discount policies, please click HERE

International Education Excellence Awards

The annual International Education Excellence Awards are now open for nominations. You can access the nomination forms online HERE

The Awards are designed to showcase and highlight excellent practice in international education, and to recognise and celebrate those institutions that are 'making it happen'.

Why bother? Simple. The Awards are peer recognition of your capabilities, and are an excellent addition to your market positioning.

There will be four categories open to Code of Practice signatory institutions for nominations in 2007. The categories are:

The Internationalisation Award is for the institution that has displayed effective integration of an international and intercultural dimension into the research, teaching and service functions within their institution.

The Excellence in Marketing Award is for excellence in marketing. The judges will be looking for innovative marketing ideas and techniques that have increased student flows from either mainstream or emerging markets, or a combination of both. Marketing activities may include in country promotions, on-line or other electronic promotions or a combination of these and other activities that have demonstrably increased recruitment.

The Excellence in Student Support Award looks for institutions that have consistently demonstrated continued excellence in pastoral care and student support programmes.

The Innovation in International Programme Award focuses on diversification (geographic markets and/or modes of supply) and innovation, and includes academic programmes and study courses that have developed new areas of tuition and/or opened up new market possibilities. Judges will be looking for programmes that are ‘out of the ordinary’ and have a long term viability. They may leverage from specific niche opportunities offered by the institution or region. Programmes may not necessarily be within New Zealand, and could encompass non traditional methods of delivery.

The Award winners will be announced during the annual industry conference. To find out more about the conference, click HERE

To view a summary of previous winners, please click HERE

PACE 2007

Malaysian Education Fairs, 18 - 23 August
The second series of New Zealand Education fairs in Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya, Penang and Kota Kinabalu are coming up. The two Fair series in Malaysia are the centerpiece of the Malaysian depth strategy, and with the number of new students from Malaysia up by 20% from last year they are playing their part.
Planning and organisation has already begun so to ensure inclusion in all printed fair materials, the registration deadline has been extended to Friday 29 June.
For more information, please click HERE or contact Laurette 

Philippines Agent Visit, 19 - 28 August
Register now to participate in the August Philippines agent visit. This visit is open to a range of sectors with a chart of specific recommendations available on the ENZ website. For more information on this market and please click HERE or contact Rahael

Indian Education Fairs, 30 August - 11 September
The second and bigger series of Education Fairs in India will commence on 30 August. This year the range of cities has been extended to cover more regions. The eight cities include Chandigarh, New Dehli, Kolkata, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai. 
A website for this market has been created to keep those involved up to date with Indian focused activities and meetings. This can be viewed HERE 
These events involve a great deal of pre fair organisation, advertising and promotional activities so early registrations are essential to ensure your institutional details are included in all promotional material. Registrations must be received by ENZ before the 2 July. 
To register please click HERE
For those active within the Indian market you should also consider participating in the Sri Lankan fair, which is scheduled to follow after the last of the Indian events. 
If you have any further queries regarding activities in India please contact Laurette DDI: 04 917 0870

Depth Update

In country agent training has been a focus of depth market campaigning in June, with a major two day Agents seminar in Korea, (click HERE for a photo of participants) and two 2-day seminars in Viet Nam. These events include general information about New Zealand and the education system, specific immigration information and a number of ‘team building’ and learning exercises. These follow from earlier events in China and India.

These events are an important part of trying to enthuse agents about New Zealand, and also getting free and frank feedback from them about what could be done better. At this stage institutions have not been involved, but as the programme rolls out then specific or multi sector involvement from institutions will be incorporated.

Response from the participating agents has been very good, with most indicating a desire for an ongoing and more frequent programme of seminars and information sharing events.