URL: Combined international education agency to boost sector
Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education
Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce says a new Crown Agency to improve the way the government supports and encourages international education will also help minimise the impact of the Christchurch earthquake on the sector. 'International education contributes more than $2 billion to our economy and supports about 32,000 jobs but, to this point, efforts to promote growth have been fragmented. “Historically, the international education function has been shared between three agencies – the Ministry of Education, Education New Zealand and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise...
