Hong Kong Blog
New Zealand Student Ambassador Programme 0708
Thursday, 25 October 2007
A perfect chance to broaden your horizons. Take the opportunity to gain first-hand travelling and living experience in the foreign culture of New Zealand - "the Pearl in the Pacific"
The Programme objectives
- Encourage the use of English in secondary edcuation
- Improve the written and spoken English in an English-speaking environment
- Broaden the horizon and global vision of secondary students in Hong Kong
- Experience travelling, living and studying in New Zealand
- Enhance interpersonal and communication skills through travelling and learning in an overseas country
- Cultural exchange among New Zealand, Hong Kong and China
Write a 500-word English essay on "New Zealand New Thinking"
Application: online registration at http://www.englishstreet.com/nzsap08 and send a printed copy of both completed registration form and Englsih essay to: Hong Kong Economic Times (English Street), 7/F, Kodak House II, 321 Java Road, North Point, Hong Kong.
Deadline of submission: 4 January, 2008
For more information, download the PDF here
Some websites with "New Zealand New Thinking":
- http://www.nzte.govt.nz/section/11772.aspx
- http://business.newzealand.com
- http://www.newzealandnewthinking.com
- http://ict.newzealand.com
Sponsoring New Zealand institutions include:
- Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (www.cpit.ac.nz)
- Kavanagh College (www.kavanagh.school.nz)
- Rangi Ruru Girls' School (www.rangiruru.school.nz)
- Waikato Institute of Technology (www.wintec.ac.nz)
- Whitireia Community Polytechnic (www.whitireia.ac.nz)
- University of Otago Language Centre & Foundation Year (www.otago.ac.nz/foundationstudies)