Education New Zealand Seeks Technology Platform for Scholarship Programme Modernization

Education New Zealand Manapou ki te Ao (ENZ) is a Crown Agent under Schedule 1 of the Crown Entities Act. ENZ is the New Zealand Government's international education business development agency, with approximately 100?employees in 18?locations across 13?countries.

ENZ has a unique and significant role to play in helping Aotearoa New Zealand realise the social, cultural, and economic benefits of international education. Our dedicated focus on international education brings the New Zealand Government�s goals for international education to life, bringing benefits to New Zealanders and international learners.?

As such we promote New Zealand as a study destination and support the delivery of education services offshore. We also administer scholarships to support New Zealanders studying overseas, particularly in Asia and Latin America.

In November 2022 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade l Manatu Aorere (MFAT) entered into a partnership with ENZ, for the operational delivery of the Manaaki New Zealand Scholarship Programme (MNZSP). In one form or another, MFAT has been running a scholarship programme open to developing country partners for more than seventy years.

The Programme is made up of several scholarship schemes, however, the technology platform currently used only caters for one of these scholarship schemes and doesn�t support the end-to-end scholarship stages. ENZ has embarked on a programme of improvement to move MNZSP into the future.

The future state will involve the management of scholarship providers through a Tiered Partnership model: a graduated environment that focuses on achieving stated outcomes and empowered decision making that will involve ENZ supporting provider capability across the key areas of: Decision making; Funding; Policy parameters / Business rules; Contracting services.

ENZ is now in a position to undertake the technology improvement program to improve processes and efficiency and support MNZSP into the future. Therefore, we want to identify an existing, off-the-shelf, cloud-based SaaS solution to manage scholarships and alumni, that can support the Tiered Partnership Model and the management of Manaaki Scholarships across all of the scholarship stages.