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The latest set of border exceptions will see 250 international Ph.D. and postgraduate students enter New Zealand.
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Even so, students will have to isolate themselves for fifteen days and pay for their stay in the managed facilities. Source: 1 NEWS
Students will undergo the 14-day administered isolation period and testing for Covid-19.
Education Minister Chris Hipkins said the waiver “recognizes the vital role that international education will play in the recovery and reconstruction of New Zealand and the need to continue the fight against the pandemic.”
“It will allow us to welcome a good portion of the PhD and Masters students who are caught offshore and who need to be in New Zealand to complete their work.”
About 10,400 people have already received exemptions for reasons such as essential or critical work.
“These are students who have or had a 2020 visa, and whose long-term commitment to study here was interrupted by Covid-19. Those who need to be in the country will be given priority first for the practical components of their research. And study, “Hipkins said.
“The first students are likely to arrive in November 2020, with the majority arriving in the new year.”
He said the exemption was much lower than the usual number of international students, but said it was “a step in the right direction for the international education sector.”
“The government will review other possible border exceptions, when it is safe to do so.”
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