A delegation of international student agents and their hosts in Solway College library. The guests visited four Wairarapa secondary schools yesterday as part of a combined marketing campaign.
Wairarapa is the rural option for the international students, not like Auckland where it's just one city to another.Alastair Scott, Wairarapa MP A team of Wairarapa educators and leaders last week hosted some international student agents on a tour to showcase the district and their schools.
Three agents from Thailand
and one from Japan were treated to tours of Solway College, Wairarapa College, Rathkeale College and St Matthew's Collegiate, as well as some attractions of the region.
Organised by Grow Wellington, the tours bring scouting agents from sending countries to investigate what Wairarapa has to offer international students.
Christine Stevenson, the deputy principal and international dean of Solway College, said the school so far had three international students, all from Hong Kong, including international student Michelle Tsang who had been at the school for more than a year.
"We're trying to grow it; obviously the idea is to diversify," Mrs Stevenson said.
