Hon Steven Joyce
Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills & Employment

11 March 2013

Kiwi & Malaysian emerging designers join forces

New Zealand and Malaysia’s top emerging fashion designers are collaborating in a fashion competition to celebrate New Zealand Week, and create stronger links in international education, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce says.

Mr Joyce attended a fashion show and Gala Event in Kuala Lumpur today showcasing up and coming fashion designers from the top Malaysian and New Zealand Schools of Design. The event was to celebrate New Zealand Week in Malaysia – a series of events to lift the profile of New Zealand as an international education and trade destination. New Zealand Week runs from 11 to 15 March.

“Students from New Zealand were partnered with students from Malaysia and they worked together online to design, create and stylise fashion items for the show,” Mr Joyce says.

“It’s great to see New Zealand institutions partnering with their Malaysian counterparts and giving students in both countries the opportunity to work together to create some outstanding pieces for the fashion show.

“This is another example of innovation in our tertiary education sector to help foster and grow education relationships with other countries, which is critical if New Zealand is going to double the earnings from international education to $5 billion by 2025.”

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Denniston Announcement: Coal Mine Gains Access Approval

Conservation Minister Dr Nick Smith today announced his approval under the Crown Minerals Act for an access agreement for Bathurst Resources for its Escarpment Mining Project on the Denniston Plateau, near Westport.

“This approval is for an open-cast mine on 106 hectares of the 2026 hectares that comprise the Denniston Plateau. This area is not National Park, nor Conservation Park nor does it have any particular reserve status...

“The loss of conservation values is compensated by a $22 million package by Bathurst Resources. This will fund pest and predator control over 25,000 hectares of the Heaphy River catchment in the Kahurangi National Park, 4,500 hectares on and around the Denniston Plateau, as well as for historic projects on the Plateau itself. This is More>>