{"id":6309,"date":"2023-07-10T05:34:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T17:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6309"},"modified":"2023-07-10T05:34:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T17:34:19","slug":"universities-eye-new-tie-ups-with-indian-institutions-to-attract-international-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6309","title":{"rendered":"Universities eye new tie-ups with Indian institutions to attract international students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A third New Zealand university is close to signing with Mumbai&#8217;s Bombay Stock Exchange Institute, opening up opportunities for Indian students to study in Aotearoa.<\/p>\n<p>The Bombay Stock Exchange Institute is a subsidiary of Bombay Stock Exchange, which at 148 years old, is the oldest stock exchange in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Managing director and CEO of the Bombay Stock Exchange Institute Ambarish Datta said it was a privilege to partner with universities in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New Zealand education is recognised worldwide, and students are offered a fantastic opportunity to learn in a great country,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Canterbury signed a memorandum of understanding in late 2018, allowing students to study in New Zealand for two of its master&#8217;s programmes.<\/p>\n<p>It allows students to start their course in India and then travel to New Zealand to graduate while still qualifying for a Post Study Work Visa.<\/p>\n<p>University of Canterbury Business Taught Masters programme director Stephen Hickinson said the agreement was beneficial to universities because they get students in different levels of study.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is also cheaper for students because they spend the first half of their study in India.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The University of Otago reached agreements with five Indian institutions in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>International director Jason Cushen said staff were also looking to develop further partnerships across India, particularly in the southern region and in the state of Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<p>He said these programmes offer more opportunities for international students that may not be accessible in their home country<\/p>\n<p>RNZ understands that another New Zealand university is in the final stages of signing an agreement with the Bombay Stock Exchange Institute.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the institute said they are currently finalising the curriculum and planning to start the programme by February next year.<\/p>\n<h3>SOURCE RNZ<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A third New Zealand university is close to signing with Mumbai&#8217;s Bombay Stock Exchange Institute, opening up opportunities for Indian students to study in Aotearoa. The Bombay Stock Exchange Institute is a subsidiary of Bombay Stock Exchange, which at 148 years old, is the oldest stock exchange in Asia. Managing director and CEO of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6311,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions\/6311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}