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by Matthew Knott, News Editor
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Asia pacific destinations reopen as
sector eyes recovery
lAnguAge secondAry tertiAry AssociAted
tudy destinations in the Asia The immigration Services Agency would make them change their mind.
Pacific region have announced said that 149,600 students were Students also outlined the impact of
Sa relaxation of entry measures, waiting to enter Japan. International the entry ban on their mental health
raising hopes for a recovery for the education industry stakeholders said a and finances. bit.ly/3s4i2pc
sector as a survey of students locked 5,000 per day arrival limit – which will Meanwhile, Australia – which
out of Japan highlighted the threats of include returning Japanese nationals reopened to student visa holders and
prolonged border closures. – will cause a bottleneck in getting working holiday makers in December –
New Zealand’s Prime Minister, students into the country. See more fully resumed entry of all fully vacci-
Jacinda Ardern, confirmed a five- at: bit.ly/3H554LV nated arrivals, including tourists from
stage reopening plan and that a cohort The reopening announcement fol- February 21st. bit.ly/3sUxDqn
of 5,000 international students will lowed the release of a survey of 3,115 Australia’s Minister for Immigration,
be allowed to apply to enter from April international students waiting to enter Alex Hawke, said that between reopen-
12th (step three). Japan, conducted by the ‘Association ing and February 11th, around 80,000
Wider student visa processing will to Open the Door to Study in Japan’ students had arrived in the country.
resume in October (step five). Work- https://educationisnottourism.com And Western Australia, which had
ing holiday streams will restart from lobbying group. retained a hard border, confirmed it
March 13th (step two), and visitors Almost four in 10 students (38.4 per would reopen to all fully vaccinated
who don’t need a visa are expected to cent) said that they would cancel their international travellers from March
be allowed in from July (step four). travel plans if they could not enter 3rd. Following the announcement,
Darren Conway, Chair of English Japan by April 2022, while a further StudyPerth www.studyperth.com.
New Zealand www.englishnewzealand. 22.5 per cent said they may consider au unveiled an International Student
co.nz, told StudyTravel Magazine cancelling. Among those consider- Travel Portal, featuring airline dis-
some of the changes would benefit ing cancellation, 54.5 per cent said a counts, travel advice and other stu-
the sector, although they would have confirmed timeline on student entry dent support initiatives. bit.ly/3sc2lwb
preferred a higher initial cohort and
an earlier date for visa processing.
“Students on tourist visas are still the
bread and butter for the industry, so
Step 4 is important.” bit.ly/3v64sna
Japan’s Prime Minister, Fumio
Kishida, announced in late February
that international students would be
able to enter from March 1st, and the
self-isolation period was also reduced
from seven to three days.

2 Studytravel Magazine Photo: www.educationisnottourism.com