Boost of $10m to encourage overseas students
2:29PM Friday August 10, 2007
By Paul Buchanan
The Government is to spend $10 million over the next four years to encourage overseas students to study in New Zealand.
Tertiary Education Minister Michael Cullen said today that more than 93,000 international students from 150 countries were studying in New Zealand.
The economic returns are worth nearly $2 billion a year, making international education New Zealand's fourth largest export earner.
Education New Zealand today welcomed the Government's announcement.
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