New Zealand has called on Filipino students to try out for scholarships being offered by the country, which annually offer 24 post-graduate scholarships to Filipinos in three sectors: disaster risk management, agri-industries and renewable energies.
“We would like to get more students from Mindanao including Moro students and Lumad students to apply for these scholarships,” ABS-CBN News quoted New Zealand Ambassador to the Philippines David Strachan as saying.
He reportedly said that Filipinos are among the fastest growing student populations in New Zealand, with about 3,600 students in 2015.
“There was an 83 percent increase in the number of Filipino students going down to the courses in New Zealand,” he added.
New Zealand has eight universities that are ranked among the best in the world, he added.
“We are also the only country in the world [that] has all of its universities on the top 500 worldwide. So our products [have] quality,” Ben Burrowes, Regional Communications and Strategic Relations Manager in Southeast Asia for Education New Zealand, was quoted as saying by ABS-CBN News.
