INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS BOOST NZMS ACTIVITIES

The New Zealand Maritime School has a successful track record of attracting international students to New Zealand to complete their tertiary qualifications and gain “overseas experience.   Since 2002, the school has a relationship with the Elsfleth and Leer Maritime Colleges in Germany, who regularly send students to the school for both nautical and logistics courses.

The latest group, shown above, completed their studies graduating with the Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain Management, and they too kthe opportunity of a few days off, to travel and  see parts of New Zealand. The group were Janna Boekhoff, Lena Bouchardt, Vesna Bramer, Timo Grutzner, Floreance Lindecke, Imke Onkes, Thore Schreiber, and Ann-Kathrin Wessel.

Director Tim Wilson said the success of the school as an international training provides flows from the significant investment it had made in securing a quality offering from experienced tutors, and having the right courses.

“We have been out there marketing ourselves to the world. That is now starting to pay off with increasing numbers of foreign students, particularly those coming from Europe. They are choosing us for the quality of our traing and the opportunity we provide for them to work and study in a different environment,” he said.