18 May 2022

Education agents warn students not lining up to come to NZ

From Morning Report, 8:16 am on 18 May 2022

Education agents warn that foreign students are not queuing up to return to New Zealand for what used to be a multi-billion dollar industry.

They say this country's handling of the pandemic is not the drawcard the government had expected and changes to post-study work rights will hit the Indian market especially hard.

International education was this country's fourth-biggest export earner worth $5 billion but pandemic border restrictions have smashed enrolments.

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Here's education correspondent John Gerritsen.