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Staff from Ashburton schools have embarked on an international trip to encourage Chinese students to study in Mid Canterbury, potentially bringing hundreds of thousands of dollars into local schools. Ashburton College’s International Department director Michelle Hosking and Mt Hutt College deputy principal Kris Canham have travelled to China to promote the area and build stronger links with Ashburton’s

Sister City, Puyang. The trip included attending a fair that was expected to attract over 500 students, a visit to Sichuan Normal University Foreign Languages School, and meetings with education providers in Guangzhou. Ashburton College principal Grant McMillan said the school was hoping to attract between 25 and 35 international students, and with an estimated $5000-6000 net profit per student, they could potentially bank over $200,000.

Mr McMillan said the college charged international students $11,500 in school fees per year. He believed encouraging foreign students to study in Canterbury was important, as numbers fell post-earthquake. “It’s great for people from different cultures to interact, it gives us a great appreciation of who and where we are,” he said. Mr McMillan said the school was careful to ensure the introduction of foreign students had a minimal effect on other students.

Mt Hutt College principal John Schreurs was more cautious about the trip, as he believed it was still “early days”. Mr Schreurs said the school couldn’t sustain the same number of international students that Ashburton College was hoping for, and while international students could bring a small profit, he believed the cultural experience would be the main focus. “Profit shouldn’t be a driving force in education, it’s disingenuous,” he said.

Mr Schreurs said encouraging international students was “a long-term thing”, and he wasn’t expecting any students from China in 2015. The schools had been working with Christchurch Educated, a group of schools that worked together to attract international students to Canterbury. A small gift and photos of Mid Canterbury would be presented to the principal of Sichuan Normal University Foreign Languages School.

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