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Colleges welcome Korean students BY LINDA CLARKE
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Ashburton and Mount Hutt colleges will be hosting students from Korea next term as part of the Free Trade Agreement between New Zealand and Korea. Canterbury will be home to 55 Korean high school students for the next eight weeks, with 11 schools hosting students. The visitors are aged between 14 and 16 years old and come from rural and semi-rural communities in Korea; the Canterbury contingent is part of a larger group of 150 coming to New Zealand on scholarships to improve their English language skills. Mount Hutt College deputy principal Kristine Canham said it was an exciting time for those involved, though the five students coming to Methven were probably a little nervous about their ad-
venture. The students will live with local families in homestays. All 55 students coming to Canterbury schools will be officially welcomed to the region at a special ceremony at Pudding Hill Lodge tomorrow. Attending the ceremony will be tertiary education, skills and employment minister Steven Joyce and senior education officials from Korea and New Zealand. Korean chaperones, and students from the hosting Canterbury schools will also be there to welcome the students. New Zealand and Korea have committed to running the programme for three years, with 150 students coming to New Zealand each year. The programme is a key outcome of the Free Trade Agreement, which came into force in December last year.
A rigorous nationwide selection process was held in Korea to choose students for the programme, which is run by the Korean Agency of Education, Promotion and Information Service in Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. About 7500 Korean students came to New Zealand last year to study at universities, schools, polytechnics and English language schools. Other Canterbury schools hosting Korean students next term include Rangiora High School, Kaiapoi High School, Darfield High School, Mountainview High School, Timaru Boys’ High School, Craighead Diocesan, Geraldine High School, Oxford Area School and Lincoln High School. Korea has the world’s 13th largest economy and is New Zealand’s sixth largest export destination.
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