Education New Zealand
Manapou ki te Ao
Level 5, Lambton House
12 May 2023
160 Lambton Quay
PO Box 12041
Wel ington 6144
New Zealand
John Luke
P: +64 4 472 0788
[FYI request #22576 email]
E: [email address]
www.enz.govt.nz
www.studyinnewzealand.govt.nz
Dear John
Official Information Act 1982 request – information on ENZ
Recognised Agencies
I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act (OIA) request to
Education New Zealand, received on 27 April 2023, seeking information
as below:
Dear Education NZ,
Thank you for your recent reply, I noted
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fw
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agent%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cenz.ministerials%40enz.govt.nz%7Cfdc
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“ We are currently reviewing our recognition programme for education
agents. The review was signalled in the New Zealand International
Education Strategy 2022-30, and aims to support the rebuild of our
international education sector. Existing ENZ Recognised Agents wil be
able to continue using their ENZRA status under the current programme
until 30 June 2023 providing they stil remain a viable business and
continue to meet conduct requirements.”
Can you please provide relevant emails/memos regarding to your
current review and can you please let me know how you are ensure
current agents are continue meets the conduct requirements, do you
audit/check on them or they simply did a self certification process?
“ Further announcements wil be made in due course”
When you anticipate to make the announcement?
Yours faithfully,
john luke
Education New Zealand
Manapou ki te Ao
Level 5, Lambton House
160 Lambton Quay
We have interpreted the following part of your request to be for
PO Box 12041
Wel ington 6144
emails/memos that relate to key decision points about the review of the
New Zealand
ENZ Recognised Agencies/Agents programme.
P: +64 4 472 0788
E: [email address]
‘Can you please provide relevant emails/memos regarding to your
current review’.
www.enz.govt.nz
www.studyinnewzealand.govt.nz
Interpreting your response in this way would enable ENZ to provide you
with relevant information as the review has progressed up to 27 April
2023, and as it stands, this part of your request may be declined under
section 18(f) of the OIA – that the information requested cannot be
made available without substantial collation or research.
Please advise if you agree with this interpretation and we wil proceed
accordingly. If we do not receive further advice from you, we wil
proceed with responding to your request in line with this interpretation.
We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and
in any event no later than 25 May 2023, being 20 working days after the
day your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your
request by then, we wil notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
Your request is being handled by my team. If you have any queries,
please feel free to contact us
on [Education NZ request email]. If any
additional factors come to light which are relevant to your request,
please do not hesitate to contact us so that these can be considered.
Please note that it is our policy to proactively release our responses to
official information requests, where possible. We do not publish
requesters’ personal information. We will let you know when we respond
to your request if we intend to publish it. Please contact us if you have
any questions about this.
Yours sincerely
Di Solomon
General Manager
Government Relations
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