2024 Code workshops
We hosted our redesigned Code 101 for School Signatories workshop in early May. This workshop was developed to support better understanding of the Code and to further build the capability of schools to meet their obligations.
We will be offering this Code 101 for School Signatories again in August.
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Workshops on self-review and attestation for school signatories will be available later in the year.
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Code spotlight: Insurance and international learners
The Code requires schools to have practices that ensure, as far as practicable, each international school learner enrolled for educational instruction of 2 weeks’ duration or longer has appropriate insurance (clause 65(1)). Key insurance requirements include:
- an international school learner’s travel to and from New Zealand, within New Zealand, and if part of educational instruction, outside of New Zealand
- medical care in New Zealand
- repatriation or expatriation of the international learner as a result of serious illness, injury, or death (including funeral expenses).
Full details can be found in Process 5: Insurance (clause 65(1)-(3)) of the Code.
Some international learners may have preexisting insurance either privately, through their parents, or eligibility to public health services which cover some or all the Code’s requirements.
Before enrolling an international school learner, please check their visa type to understand what, if any, public health services they might be able to access. Regardless of the type of visa held by the international learner, the obligations for insurance remain but could be covered in multiple ways. For example, you can visit Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora’s website to access their guide to eligibility for public health services:
Guide to eligibility for public health services (external link) - Te Whatu Ora
You may find that your international learners' medical care in New Zealand is already covered through public health.
More information about Process 5: Insurance can be found on page 25 of our guidance for school signatories: