New Zealand offers world-class facilities, resources and people.  Education providers use modern equipment with the appropriate mix of classrooms, lecture theatres, tutor rooms, laboratories and information centres for the courses they provide.

Most institutions also offer the following services or help students find them.

Health services

•    Doctors, nurse, counselors and a pharmacy

•    Fitness centres and sports clubs

•    Child care.

Advice and support services

•    International office – assisting students in their native language, if required, for matters such as illness, visas and accommodation

•    Career advice

•    Budgeting advice

•    Sexual harassment officers

•    Dispute mediators

•    Reader, writers and note–takers for physically disabled students and sign language interpreters for deaf students.

Academic support services

•    Student learning centre for one-to-one and group tutorials on study skills, essay writing, statistics, word processing, planning a thesis, using the library and exam techniques

•    Text book and stationery shop

•    Photocopy shop – printing, transparencies, lamination and binding

•    Computer labs with Internet access and personal email accounts

•    Well-stocked library with specialist staff.

Social services

•    Students' association – which supports a wide range of social, cultural, and sporting activities and has a say in running the institution

•    Student radio station and newspaper

•    Student travel office

•    Games rooms

•    Chapel and chaplaincy services.

•    Muslim Prayer Rooms
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Support for women

Tertiary institutions have active women's groups and sometimes a women's common room. There are effective procedures for dealing with sexual harassment.