Time in New Zealand

Victoria University to maximise their perceived value. The price of fees, cost of living and the ability to offset costs through part time work are the main price considerations before students decide to study abroad. The research included in this report on Thailand shows there were over 24,000 Thai students who studied overseas in 2012 and only 2% studied in New Zealand. Also the fact that only 0.5% of total Thai students study overseas shows a lack of affordability of studying abroad,…

Poverty is a serious problem in New Zealand, especially among children. The demographics in these statistics are strongly leaning towards the native Maori population. To be in poverty means to experience hunger and food insecurity, reduced life expectancy, poor health outcome, debt, and unaffordable or bad housing (NZCCSS). According to New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services, there are approximately 622,000 people in poverty in the country, which is about one in seven households. This…

First steps in New Zealand When refugees and asylum seekers arrive in New Zealand they spend the first six weeks adjusting to life in the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre. The centre, where currently 165 refugees are staying, consists of four different agencies: Immigration, Medical, Counselling, and Education. Maria Lawyer, who has spent 28 years researching and being involved in refugee education, is a manager at the Centre for Refugee Education. Ms Lawyer always felt strongly about…

of Waitangi a Māori Magna Carta or Mega-Fraud. The Manga Carta 1215 (1297) The phrase Māori Magna Carta or Mega-Fraud is an interesting phrase. The Magna Carta is a fundamental constitutional document not only to the United Kingdom but also to New Zealand and many other countries that…

into New Zealand. There is also a café onsite now which is very popular for the hungry tourists after a long day of walking. The farm offers products such as Lamb, Beef and Wool to tourists. The newest part to Hobbiton is the Green Dragon Inn, which opened in December…

Why Donald Trump becoming Prime Minister of New Zealand will make New Zealand Great. DISCLAIMER: This is satire, not real, a joke. Whilst the National Party has upheld the prosperity and status of New Zealand, they have not managed to make New Zealand the country is once was. All countries aim to be the best they can be, if not the best in the world. The only way New Zealand can achieve greatness is if Donald Trump becomes the new Prime Minister. Not only is Donald Trump a lobbyist for the…

New Zealand and Australia are two different countries on just opposite sides of the Tasman Sea. New Zealand can be characterized as having a moderately small population compared to many developed countries. Australia for example holds over five times the population of New Zealand. New Zealand’s small size makes it difficult for the country to have adequate domestic competition, making foreign competition very important to the domestic business market. New Zealand and Australia were originally…

Whāriki (Ministry of Education [MoE], 1996), the early childhood curriculum of Aotearoa New Zealand underpins a range of developmental theories; which in turn, contributes to the quality in early childhood education and care. This essay will examine the socio-cultural and ecological perspective of child development in respect of quality and care in the early childhood sector of education in Aotearoa New Zealand. The socio-cultural perspective of child development underpins the notion that…

Discrimination has affected the lives of various communities for thousands of years, and for a significant portion of this time, the many groups discriminated against, whether it be for race, behaviour or gender, simply accepted the inequity and continued their daily lives. However, eventually, most of these minorities decided there was no real reason why they were inferior, other than the other, larger group thought they were, and so, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s, there were many…

Sometimes I ask myself if I made the right decision you know…I think I did… I feel free here and in New Zealand I feel in peace. Vanesa came to New Zealand from Argentina in 2013 on a working holiday visa. She is a petite woman with a laugh that is larger than life and like many Argentinians, she likes to say “blah,blah,blah” when she tells stories. She is peaceful woman and this personality trait is, according to her, diametrically opposed to how people are in Buenos Aires, the town she is…