Education bodies join forces for Study Queenstown

Media Release from Queenstown Resort College/Study Queenstown

30 September 2010

Education bodies join forces for Study Queenstown website

Queenstown’s educational institutions have joined forces online to maximize the region’s pulling power as ‘the place to live and learn’ for new and prospective students from around New Zealand and overseas.

‘Study Queenstown’ brings together tertiary education providers as well as English schools, secondary and primary schools in a new one-stop-shop website www.studyqueenstown.com that promotes the world-famous resort as a world-class education destination.

Destination Queenstown CEO Tony Everitt said he was delighted to see the launch of the new website and marketing initiative that would help deliver an increasingly proactive market segment to the resort town.

“We have a broad range of providers offering an exciting range of educational options and opportunities within studyqueenstown.com,” he said. “Queenstown has a growing educational presence which is increasingly resulting in us becoming recognised as a serious study destination.

“The new Study Queenstown website is a fantastic initiative being led by QRC and we’re happy to support and promote this to our overseas markets,” he said.

Study Queenstown currently features Queenstown Resort College, the Southern Lakes English College, ABC College of English, Wakatipu High School and the Southern Institute of Technology, together offering a comprehensive range of international and national qualifications. It is expected that other providers will come on board in the near future.

Students can achieve secondary, diploma, degree, or post graduate qualifications through a variety of pathways, with the options of learning new skills or languages. Many higher education courses also give students the flexibility of to studying part or full time, with the opportunities to study abroad or carry out a gap year.

Queenstown Resort College International Marketing and Recruitment Manager Duncan Sadleir said Queenstown now had an educational infrastructure that could compete with any location in the world.

“The ranges of programmes available are constantly developing and incorporate the natural landscapes and industry into the learning delivery to provide an unrivalled education experience,” he said.

Mr Everitt agreed, saying the establishment of studyqueenstown.com meant the resort had a number one point of contact for educational information in Queenstown.

“We see the potential for longer-term benefits for the region with increasing numbers of students coming here to study, work and play year-round, breaking the seasonal cycle of more traditional visitors,” he said.

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