{"id":501654,"date":"2026-06-29T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/501654\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:22:08","slug":"indian-students-interest-in-nz-holds-steady-as-uk-us-see-dropping-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/501654\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian students&#8217; interest in NZ holds steady as UK, US see dropping demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand appears to be bucking a global downturn in demand from Indian students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The BBC reports Indian students are increasingly reconsidering study abroad options, driven by a weaker currency, visa restrictions, and dimmer job prospects in the UK and US.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Waikato University Vice-Chancellor Neil Quigley told Mike Hosking Indian enrolments are expected to hold steady over the next year, matching levels seen over the past 18 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He says they&#8217;re probably at the same level as Chinese students, or possibly stronger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quigley says one factor supporting demand here is the relatively weak New Zealand dollar against international currencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He says the depreciation of the rupee has not affected the New Zealand dollar as much as it has the pound or US dollar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand appears to be bucking a global downturn in demand from Indian students.\u00a0 The BBC reports Indian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84,2344,1019,250482,250483,111,43,139,69,142611,1528,250484],"class_list":["post-501654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-education","tag-india","tag-international","tag-internationalstudents","tag-neilquigley","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tertiaryeducation","tag-university","tag-waikatouniversity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}