More Marlborough college leavers are crossing the Cook Strait to study than in previous years, college careers advisers say.
Marlborough Girls' College careers adviser Cheryl West said Auckland and Victoria universities had stepped up their marketing in Marlborough and were luring more students.
Thirty girls' college students will be studying at Auckland, Waikato, Massey and Victoria universities and 20 are going to Canterbury and Otago, she said. Ten were going to study at the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology.
The Wellington lifestyle appealed to many girls, she said.
A few had said they felt a bit safer going to Wellington rather than Christchurch after earthquakes there, but the quakes were not a factor for many, she said.
Scholarships also played a factor in which university the students attended because they offered financial support, she said.
Marlborough Boys' College careers and transitions manager Peter Kemp said that in previous years more students headed off to Canterbury than Victoria, but the numbers were about evenly split this year.
Queen Charlotte College principal Tom Parsons said 26 of the 32 year 13 students were going on to further education or had landed a job. The rest were not sure what they wanted to do.
Most had chosen to go to Victoria University because it was close to home, he said.
A Canterbury University spokeswoman said enrolments for next year had not closed so it was difficult to tell how many students from Marlborough had applied to study there.
New enrolments closed on December 10, and re-enrolments closed on January 10.
In October, Canterbury University vice-chancellor Rod Carr has asked staff to consider taking voluntary redundancy as the university struggles to balance the books, after losing students because of the earthquakes.
In a letter sent to the university's 3000 staff last week, Mr Carr said 39 people sought voluntary redundancy, and 24 applications were accepted.
For an application to be accepted, the person's role needed to be surplus to the university's requirements, he said.
A financial report discussed at last week's university council meeting said it was necessary to budget for a reduction of 50 personnel by the start of next year.
- The Marlborough Express
SIMON WONG
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