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EIT Welcomes Overseas Visitors

August 13, 2012

An influx of overseas visitors will be welcomed on campus this semester, on tours customised by EIT’s English Language Centre.

Seventeen Asian government executives are expected in mid-July for a seven-week English Language Training for Officials course. From Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Timor Leste, the group will be in New Zealand for five months in New Zealand, during which time they will also study governance at Victoria University. The trip is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s New Zealand Aid Programme.

A group of Taiwanese nurses arrive in late July for a four-week stay designed to improve their English and acquaint them with the New Zealand health system.

A little later in the month, 31 young students from Tomokomai National College of Technology and two other technical colleges in northern Japan arrive for a fortnight’s stay. Aged from about 18 to 22, the students will join English Language Centre classes at EIT. Their programme will also take them to a working farm, and they will be delivering two science performances at Nelson Park School.

Senior government officials from Asia are expected for a long weekend – also in late July.