NZ, China sign education agreement

NZPA | Tuesday November 3 2009 - 07:59am

New Zealand and China have signed an education agreement which will enhance research, science and technology links.

Education Minister Anne Tolley, who signed for New Zealand, said it would focus on high-level research talent, with academic research and education exchanges between institutions and agencies.

China's Ambassador to New Zealand, Zhang Limin, signed for China at a ceremony in Parliament witnessed by Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang who later held talks with Prime Minister John Key.

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is this like the three

is this like the three rrr's.?
is it a night class deal.?
who wins.?
not us i bet.

Posted by al zheimer at 11:42 am on November 03, 2009

China education!

I thought that we must have signed an education agreement with China years ago; since our schols have been teaching and preaching Socialism since the mid 1960's.

Posted by Bob at 05:30 pm on November 03, 2009

Empty gesture?

In November 2002, a Vice Minister of Education from China came to NZ to plead with the goverment to regulate the private language school sector - so many complaints from students had gone back to China. Teaching and learning is still unmonitored for quality in private language schools in NZ, and English language teachers (unlike teachers in other sectors) still don't have to be registered. Does the new agreement with China acknowledge this running sore in the NZ international education sector? Does Anne Tolley know that there are now websites in China that warn fee-paying students against coming to New Zealand?

Posted by IJB at 10:03 pm on November 03, 2009

Look who signed it

Anne Tolley signed the deal. Anne Tolley is the national party loss leader.

Posted by Artiste at 03:25 pm on November 04, 2009

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