China, NZ's largest foreign-student source

WELLINGTON - China continues to be New Zealand's largest source of foreign students, as its international-education industry grew 6 percent to 131,609 student enrollments last year, according to the International Education Dashboard released by the government on June 7.

The dashboard showed an overall increase of 7,245 international student enrollments from a broader range of countries and that a majority of regions in New Zealand experienced growth.

China led the growth with 4,429 more students in 2016, growing by 13 percent to a total of 38,046 students in New Zealand.