Leading NZ universities to gather at 2019 Education NZ Fairs
More than 50 of New Zealand’s education institutions will be travelling to Vietnam to showcase their country’s world-class learning environment at the Education New Zealand Fairs in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi on March 23 and 24, respectively.
The fairs will present a wide range of New Zealand scholarships, including the latest New Zealand Schools Scholarships (NZSS) offered exclusively to Vietnamese students. A series of seminar sessions will also be held, to help prospective students fully prepare for their upcoming journey to one of the leading countries in the world for “Educating for the Future”.
Organized by Education New Zealand with support from the Embassy of New Zealand in Vietnam and the New Zealand Consulate, the fairs are the country’s largest in-market promotional events in the calendar year. On these auspicious occasions, there will also be a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signing between Waikato University and Ton Duc Thang University as well as between government agencies of the two countries, which mark continued progress in Vietnam-New Zealand education links.
The fairs will be promoting a wide range of scholarships for different levels of study, including the NZSS, which provide support for talented Vietnamese high school students covering 100 per cent, 50 per cent, and 30 per cent of tuition fees for the first year of study.
There will also be New Zealand scholarships available for Vietnamese postgraduate students, as well as numerous others offered by institutions attending the fairs.
“We appreciate that for Vietnamese students and parents, the decision-making process for selecting an international education destination is very thorough,” said Mr. Ben Burrowes, Education New Zealand’s Regional Manager, East Asia. “And we believe that our New Zealand Education Fairs provide a fantastic opportunity for them to speak directly with our world-class education institutions, as well as our Vietnamese alumni, to better inform those decisions.”
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2017 Educating for the Future Index ranked New Zealand as the best education system overall, earning full marks for the curriculum framework for future skills, collaboration between education providers and industry, and cultural diversity and tolerance, among other measures.
New Zealand’s reputation for its future skills expertise, as well as its safe and welcoming environment for international students, have been key reasons behind the continued increase in Vietnamese students choosing the country as their international education destination. The number of Vietnamese students increased by 7 per cent in 2018 (34 per cent in the high school sector), with over 2,500 Vietnamese now studying in New Zealand.
“Our Vietnamese alumni are our greatest ambassadors for studying in New Zealand and we’re extremely proud that so many have gone on to forge outstanding professional careers around the world,” said Mr. Burrowes. “We are also privileged to have a number of them attending this year’s fairs, to share their unique New Zealand experience.”
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