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Speaker 1: So we appear to have some sort of liftoff in

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Speaker 1: terms of international student numbers returning to the country, which

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Speaker 1: is good. New stats enrollments are up sixteen percent on

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Speaker 1: last year, forty nine percent higher than twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: We're sitting at sixty three six hundred and ten. China

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Speaker 1: and India the key markets, but we have follow up

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Speaker 1: from Japan, Sri Lanka. In the US, Amanda Marley was

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Speaker 1: the Chief Executive of Education New Zealand and is with us. Amanda,

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Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning. We see a big increase in

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Speaker 1: good value for money. Is that perception from these students

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Speaker 1: or is that real? And if it's real, what's changed.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a bit of both. Actually, I think

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Speaker 2: they definitely are valuing the education they get here in

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Speaker 2: New Zealand. We're seeing that come through in their feedback.

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Speaker 2: There's probably some some play there for at WUR exchange rate,

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Speaker 2: but definitely we'd say from the feedback they are enjoying

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Speaker 2: their time here and they feel they are getting value

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Speaker 2: from that time here.

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Speaker 1: Good The numbers are just a result of post COVID.

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Speaker 1: It was always going to happen in some way, shape

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Speaker 1: or form, or has there been a push, and the

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Speaker 1: push is working ooka.

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Speaker 2: I think this is a real credit to the work

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Speaker 2: there sector has really done over the last couple of

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Speaker 2: years to get back out into market and really push

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Speaker 2: New Zealand as a study destination. So it's definitely a

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Speaker 2: result of the hard work. There's more push to be done,

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Speaker 2: and we've got really great plans to do that, so

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Speaker 2: I think we can We're on a really good path here.

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Speaker 1: Good sixty three thousand plus. How full are we? What

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Speaker 1: could we do reasonably? Do you think?

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Speaker 2: Well? Our plan is to double the value of international

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Speaker 2: education by twenty thirty four, so we're looking at really

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Speaker 2: steady growth. We're not looking at the boombust cycle we've

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Speaker 2: seen in other parts of the world. We're really taking

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Speaker 2: a considered approach to this. We've worked with the sector.

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Speaker 2: We understand what the capacity looks like in universities and schools, polytechnics,

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Speaker 2: and we're really trying to support them to basically get

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Speaker 2: back to that back capacity.

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Speaker 1: Is the visa thing smooth now?

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Speaker 2: The visa thing actually is getting some great feedback from students,

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Speaker 2: so that was a real positive. Our student experience survey

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Speaker 2: that showed a ten percent jump in the number of

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Speaker 2: students rating the time it takes to get their visa

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Speaker 2: really positively and that's a real credit to the work

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Speaker 2: going on. Like beyond providers, this is a full court

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Speaker 2: press here and immigrations doing their part two, which is

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Speaker 2: really great good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Nice to get the Mandamala who's the chief executive Education

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Speaker 1: New Zealand. Sri Lanka and Nepal have jumped, I assume

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Speaker 1: off low bases, but so it's not all China and India.

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Speaker 1: You've got Japan, Sri Lanka in the US, but also

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Speaker 1: Sri Lanka and Nepal, which was encouraging.

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