FTA brings Chinese teachers to NZ TVNZ
Eight Mandarin language assistants (MLA) are taking up residence in New Zealand for the 2010 school year to assist teaching and learning of Mandarin in New Zealand schools.
The programme is an education product of the NZ-China Free Trade Agreement and the first of its kind to be sponsored by the Ministry of Education.
Six of the young women are sponsored by the Ministry of Education and two are sponsored by the Confucius Institute in Auckland. They are being hosted by clusters of participating schools in Auckland, Rotorua and Wellington.
"Having both Ministries of Education, in China and New Zealand, supporting this initiative signals the growing importance being placed on Chinese language in our schools", said Gillian Eadie, Acting Director of the Confucius Institute in Auckland.
"The rapid increase in numbers of schools recognising that young New Zealanders need Mandarin language for future employment ensured that there was great interest in hosting these assistants."
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