To qualify as a domestic student, and so be entitled to the Government tuition subsidy, you must be:
- a citizen of New Zealand (including students from the Cook Islands, Tokelau, or Niue who have New Zealand citizenship) or
- a permanent resident of New Zealand or
- a citizen or permanent resident of Australia residing in New Zealand or
- a citizen of New Zealand (including students from the Cook Islands, Tokelau, or Niue who have New Zealand citizenship).
If you are studying overseas full-time and face-to-face at a campus or delivery site of a New Zealand tertiary education organisation (TEO), you may also qualify as a domestic student if
- you are a permanent resident of New Zealand or a citizen or permanent resident of Australia and
- you are studying in an approved country and
- the overseas study is level 7 or above on the New Zealand Qualification Framework.
The 29 approved countries are in the Asia, Latin America and Middle East regions. A full list is available on the Education New Zealand website.
You must provide evidence of citizenship or permanent residency. To do so you must produce one of the following:
- Birth certificate with place of birth stated as New Zealand, Cook Islands, Tokelau, or Niue.
- New Zealand passport.
- A certificate of identity.
- A statement of Whakapapa, including date of birth, countersigned by a kaumatua.
- A New Zealand certificate of citizenship.
- Overseas passport with residency stamp.
Please provide a certified copy by emailing
kaya@sbl.ac.nz.
Certified copy means a photocopy, photograph or scanned copy of your original document, signed as being a true and accurate copy by a Justice of the Peace (JP), Barrister or Solicitor, Notary Public, Court Register or Deputy Registrar, Member of Parliament, Land Transport New Zealand, Public trust, or local authority employee designated for this purpose. When a learner is in a remote community and unable to access a person listed in the Oaths and Declarations Act, a member of the New Zealand Police, school principal, minister of religion, or general practitioner is acceptable.
International students must bring their passport with them when they enrol.
Please note that your name, date of birth and residency as entered on this enrolment form will be included in the National Student Index, and will be used in an Authorised Information Matching programmes with official governement information such as the New Zealand Birth Register, to verify the information provided.
On occasion, more than one National Student Number is created for an individual or data entry errors are made. The Ministry regularly monitors the quality of the National Student Index and, when duplicates or errors are discovered, it works with providers and government agencies to merge duplicates and correct errors. This may require the documentation you provide at enrolment being shared between agencies authorised to access the National Student Index to make these corrections.
For further information please see: http://nsi.education.govt.nz/home.aspx
Privacy
School of Business Ltd collects and stores information from this form to:
- manage the business of School of Business Ltd(including internal reporting, administrative processes and selection of scholarship and prize winners)
- comply with the requirements of the Education Act 1989 and other legislation[1] relating to maintenance of records
- supply information to government agencies and other organisations as set out below.
In signing this enrolment form you authorise such disclosure on the understanding that School of Business Ltdwill observe the conditions governing the release of information, as set out in the Privacy Act 1993, the Education Act 1989 and other relevant legislation. You may see any information held about you and amend any errors in that information. To do so, contact the Enrolments Officer.
NB: The Privacy Act came into force on 1 July 1993 with the stated aim of protecting the privacy of natural persons. It requires School of Business Ltd to collect, hold, handle, use and disclose personal information in accordance with the twelve information privacy principles in the Act. http://www.privacy.org.nz/privacy-act
Supply of information to government agencies and other organisations
School of Business Ltd supplies data collected on this form to government agencies, including:
- the Ministry of Education
- the Education New Zealand
- the New Zealand Qualifications Authority
- the Tertiary Education Commission
- the Ministry of Social Development (in relation to student loans and allowances) and Inland Revenue (student loans)
- Immigration New Zealand and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (for those who are not New Zealand citizens or permanent residents)
- agencies which support particular students through scholarships, payment of fees or other awards (if you are a recipient of one of these awards).
Those agencies use the data collected from tertiary education organisations to:
- administer the tertiary education system, including allocating funding
- develop policy advice for government
- conduct statistical analysis and research.
Your personal details (name, date of birth and residency) as entered on this form will be included in the National Student Index and may be used in an authorised information matching programme with the New Zealand Birth Register.
The government agencies above may supply data collected on this form to Statistics New Zealand for the purposes of integrating data with data collected by other government agencies, subject to the provisions of the Statistics Act 1975. Integrated data is used for the production of official statistics, to inform policy advice to government and for research purposes.
In handling data supplied by you on this form, the government agencies are required to comply with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1993.
When required by law, School of Business Ltd releases information to government agencies such as the New Zealand Police, Department of Justice, Ministry of Social Development, and the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC).
Information collected on this form may be supplied to other educational organisations for the purpose of verifying academic records.
Fees – In signing this enrolment form you undertake to pay all fees as they become due, and to meet any late fees and collection charges associated with debt recovery. <Name of TEO>’s policy on withdrawal and refund of fees may be obtained from the Enrolments Officer.
Rules – In signing this enrolment form you undertake to comply with the published rules and policies of <School of Business Ltd> with regard to attendance, academic integrity and progress, conduct and use of information systems.
2This includes legislation governing the maintenance of official records and for accountability for public funding.