ELTO Stories

Pro Vice-Chancellor International Engagement with ELTO country leaders and staff

English is better with (an) Accent

Victoria University’s engagement with Southeast Asia is about to move up a gear, with the signing by Accent Learning of a three-year contract with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide...
Rock Fall

Post-earthquake Christchurch proves good training ground

During the field trip, ELTO officials had opportunities to visit key sites, meet with professional counterparts, and hear presentations about the disaster and the community response and rebuilding.
Su & Hugo

Speaking of English

When Hugo Garcia (from Timor-Leste) and Su Kalayar Htun (from Myanmar) arrived in Wellington in January this year to begin 20 weeks of intensive English Language Training for Officials (ELTO), they had...
ELTOs and other VUW students perform

Handcrafts exhibition in Wellington raises awareness of Timor Leste

By ELTO Intake 40 participant, Anita Fatima Marques Da Silva from the Ministry of Education in Timor Leste“Life is not about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself” by George Bernard Shaw....
Intake 40 ELTOs meet the PM

ELTOs meet the Prime Minster

By Thi Thu Huong Tran (ELTO Official from Vietnam)  ANZAC Day an annual event on 25April, is an opportunity to remember all the New Zealanders who served and sacrificed in wars and  ...
Khaing Khaing Win from Myanmar ready to plant

A group of ELTO officials have been playing a part in helping improve Wellington’s environment while they are studying here.

On Saturday  9 May they  volunteered with the Forest and Bird organisation helping create a place for Penguins to nest near Scorching bay at the west of Point Halswell on Miramar Peninsula,...
Aung Naing Oo with her ELTO Alumni father, Ohnmar Aung Naing Oo.

Myanmar daughter follows in father’s footsteps

When Ohnmar Aung Naing Oo (known as Cheryl) from Myanmar graduated from Victoria University of Wellington in December it was a dream come true for her father, who also studied at Victoria.
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