Rotorua Daily Post
  • Rotorua Daily Post home
  • Latest news
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • Sport
  • Video
  • Death notices
  • Classifieds

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • On The Up
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
    • All Lifestyle
    • Residential property listings
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology
  • Rural
  • Sport

Locations

  • Tauranga
  • Te Puke
  • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua
  • Tokoroa
  • Taupō & Tūrangi

Media

  • Video
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-Editions
  • Photo sales

Weather

  • Rotorua
  • Tauranga
  • Whakatāne
  • Tokoroa
  • Taupō

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Rotorua Daily Post

Chinese delegation at polytech

Rotorua Daily Post
26 Jun, 2016 09:52 PM3 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

Presidents and vice presidents from vocational and technical colleges in China and staff of Waiariki Bay of Plenty Polytechnic began their week-long leadership development programme with a pohiri.

Presidents and vice presidents from vocational and technical colleges in China and staff of Waiariki Bay of Plenty Polytechnic began their week-long leadership development programme with a pohiri.

Waiariki Bay of Plenty Polytechnic was one of two institutes in New Zealand chosen to have its programmes, systems and processes studied by China's higher learning institutes last week.

Here as part of a leadership development and exchange programme between China and New Zealand, the group has been exploring vocational and industrial areas in order to strengthen the developments in teaching, learning and industry engagement at their respective institutions as China seeks to modernise its professional and vocational education and training.

"We are proud to have hosted a visiting Chinese delegation this week, who toured our institute and local industry. This visit is the first of its kind in New Zealand," said the polytechnic's international education director, Graeme Rennie.

The 17 Chinese representatives are a mix of presidents and vice presidents - many of them also professors - from successful and award-winning vocational and technical colleges.

The exchange is part of a two-week programme organised by Waiariki Bay of Plenty Polytechnic (WBoPP) and Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) on behalf of New Zealand's tertiary institutes, and sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Education, the China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE), and Education New Zealand.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Mr Zhao Juli, president of Xi' and Aeronautical Polytechnic Institute, said: "What we wanted was an overview of the New Zealand education system, to understand the higher education system and the vocational education system, the NZQA framework that we have to work towards, and also from the institution point of view, how we implement those strategies."

Strategies and planning were frequently visited topics during the week, as was the student experience.

"We talked a lot about the student-centric learning but student-centric learning is not only about the teaching," said He Qin, president of Shandong Polytechnic.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

"It also relates to all of the facilities [at WBoPP], how you design them, how you have the social areas for the students, why you have Wi-Fi, what kind of curriculum you decide [to develop], what kind of teaching resources you have. Everything is student-centric learning and it's very, very different to what we have in China. You are very much into the details, down to everything."

Sui Bi Xia, professor and vice president, Changzhou College of Information Technology, agrees the student focus is apparent in nearly every aspect of planning and management at WBoPP and she was impressed by the level of dedication demonstrated by tutors.

"The teachers are not here just to teach, they really want to see the students succeed so [the teaching] is from the heart. It's actually not just from talking and teaching, it is actually from the heart that they are really motivated to help the students. This is surprising."

After a week of tours, visits, presentations and in-depth discussions with WBoPP, the delegates are now following a similar schedule at Wintec.

Discover more

Overseas workers eye Rotorua

29 Jun 02:30 AM

"We all have the same direction but how we achieve these outcomes is different because we are different countries," says Zhousuo Wang, president and professor, Yangling Vocational and Technical College.

Save

    Share this article

Latest from Rotorua Daily Post

Rotorua Daily Post

'He's just scared of me': Teen's Māori wards challenge to PM

06 Jul 03:55 AM
Rotorua Daily Post

'Safety risks': Concerns as hospital security guards double as cleaners

05 Jul 10:45 PM
Rotorua Daily Post

Bid for inquiry into Ōhinemutu sewage spills fails

05 Jul 06:00 PM

There’s more to Hawai‘i than beaches and buffets – here’s how to see it differently

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Rotorua Daily Post

'He's just scared of me': Teen's Māori wards challenge to PM

'He's just scared of me': Teen's Māori wards challenge to PM

06 Jul 03:55 AM

Chris Hipkins agreed to meet him in Wellington after the Prime Minister said 'no'.

'Safety risks': Concerns as hospital security guards double as cleaners

'Safety risks': Concerns as hospital security guards double as cleaners

05 Jul 10:45 PM
Bid for inquiry into Ōhinemutu sewage spills fails

Bid for inquiry into Ōhinemutu sewage spills fails

05 Jul 06:00 PM
Pedestrian dies after being hit by vehicle in Canterbury

Pedestrian dies after being hit by vehicle in Canterbury

04 Jul 08:04 PM
From early mornings to easy living
sponsored

From early mornings to easy living

NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • Rotorua Daily Post e-edition
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the Rotorua Daily Post
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • NZME Events
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP