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Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
In an effort to contribute towards the city's rebuild and provide more options to its growing international student population, the Ara Institute of Canterbury (formerly Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology) has more than doubled the accommodation it provides to students in Christchurch's CBD. Otautahi House opened its doors to two new accommodation blocks, with a third block scheduled for opening in April 2017, boosting the bed numbers available for Ara students from 72 to 192.
“The Otautahi accommodation has always been very popular and with increasing demand, the Otautahi Education Development Trust decided to build three new blocks. We’re pleased that for those students who come from out of town to study at Ara, they now have greater inner city accommodation options,” Ms Diana Law, Student Support Manager at Ara, said.
Notably, the number of Indian students has been steadily increasing at Ara in the last few years. It was just 160 in 2014 and rose to 365 last year, which was more than one-third of the total of over 1,017 EFTS (equivalent full-time international students) studying at Ara in 2016.
Meanwhile, Canterbury's premier polytechnic is set to welcome 10 students from Kumaraguru College of Technology (KCT), India for a ‘Motorsport’ Engineering Systems Analysis programme commencing shortly. It involves an intensive two-and-a-half-week face-to-face component in Christchurch followed by a research project that will be completed in India. This is part of the relationship Ara has developed with a number of Indian institutes, including KCT, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Rizvi College of Arts, Science & Commerce, and Gujarat Technological University (GTU). Few of Ara's business management students, funded by the Prime Minister’s Scholarship for Asia, will also be visiting GTU soon.
In an effort to contribute towards the city's rebuild and provide more options to its growing international student population, the Ara Institute of Canterbury...
In an effort to contribute towards the city's rebuild and provide more options to its growing international student population, the Ara Institute of Canterbury (formerly Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology) has more than doubled the accommodation it provides to students in Christchurch's CBD. Otautahi House opened its doors to two new accommodation blocks, with a third block scheduled for opening in April 2017, boosting the bed numbers available for Ara students from 72 to 192.
“The Otautahi accommodation has always been very popular and with increasing demand, the Otautahi Education Development Trust decided to build three new blocks. We’re pleased that for those students who come from out of town to study at Ara, they now have greater inner city accommodation options,” Ms Diana Law, Student Support Manager at Ara, said.
Notably, the number of Indian students has been steadily increasing at Ara in the last few years. It was just 160 in 2014 and rose to 365 last year, which was more than one-third of the total of over 1,017 EFTS (equivalent full-time international students) studying at Ara in 2016.
Meanwhile, Canterbury's premier polytechnic is set to welcome 10 students from Kumaraguru College of Technology (KCT), India for a ‘Motorsport’ Engineering Systems Analysis programme commencing shortly. It involves an intensive two-and-a-half-week face-to-face component in Christchurch followed by a research project that will be completed in India. This is part of the relationship Ara has developed with a number of Indian institutes, including KCT, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Rizvi College of Arts, Science & Commerce, and Gujarat Technological University (GTU). Few of Ara's business management students, funded by the Prime Minister’s Scholarship for Asia, will also be visiting GTU soon.
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