New Zealand: the next destination for Indian Students

source: Business Standard

Business Standard reports that New Zealand now offers study opportunities in the field of research for students in India under the new agreement of New Zealand Government. It also stated that The New Zealand trade and Enterprise and the New Zealand High Commission in India have been organising education fares and activities for Indian Students for the past several years. As a result, Indian students are now granted to take a PhD degree in New Zealand without worrying its hig tuition fee. The New Zealand government is willing to pay at least 60 to 70 percent of fee for students who are taking up research at various NZ Institutions.

New Zealand’s Trade Commissioner to India, Paul Vaughan said “We are getting the maximum number of students from North India. Students from Punjab and Delhi are coming to New Zealand in large numbers. The trend is slowly being followed by students from Maharashtra and the Southern states.”

The population of New Zealand is just over 4 million. Due to the growing economy, a lot of job opportunities are coming up. “Our unemployment ratio is just 3 per cent and non-New Zealand citizens can take jobs even in the army and the police,” Vaughan added. The academic year in New Zealand star

Under-18s to stay in education

Prime Minister Helen Clark announced that all under 18 year olds will be having some form of education or training from 2004. Those students who are leaving school will have to either go into other training or if they took up a job would have to do that in conjuction with an apprenticeship or qualification.

"Senior secondary schooling will be transformed so that staying at school, gaining relevant qualifications, and building on qualifications beyond school, will become the accepted norm over time," Clark says.

Source: NZPA