Applicants must be aged between 18 and 30, and have tertiary qualifications (full-time courses with at least 3 years of study).
The School of Distance Education was established in 1971 to provide opportunities for local working adults to obtain a tertiary qualification.
Most organisations require volunteers to have tertiary qualifications or work experience in their particular field, and to hold residency in the organisation's base country.
Wellington additionally has a much higher proportion of people with tertiary qualifications than the national average.
He has no formal tertiary qualification.
All of its 294 academic staff hold tertiary qualifications, including 15 PhDs and 132 Master's degrees.
It also offered tertiary qualifications in social work, human services and training and development.
He completed his tertiary qualifications at Queensland University of Technology in 1999.
Keating had no tertiary qualifications and just three weeks experience as a minister.
New Zealand has an adult literacy rate of 99 percent, and over half of the population aged 15 to 29 hold a tertiary qualification.