ICEF hosted a World Student Scholarship Education Programme in the Gulf, bringing together 100 scholarship providers with institutions in 20 countries.

The British International University in Erbil will offer University of London degree programs when it opens in September 2023.

The Texas International Education Consortium has announced a partnership with the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani.

Dual nationals of Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Syria and VWP countries will no longer be allowed to travel to the US visa-free, under new anti-terrorism measures.

We have many, many Syrian clients, but mostly they go to Canada or the USA because they give them visas

Pearson Test of English Academic is continuing its rapid global expansion with new test centres in Nigeria and Iraq, and has plans to open centres in 20 markets this year including Malaysia, Vietnam, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. It will be working with a UK university in partnership overseas too.

A new international strategy from UCAS, significant opportunity in markets such as Indonesia and Iraq and a revelatory update from Universities UK all featured in a information-loaded BUILA annual conference last week. Organisations working hard to boost the sector's international capabilities interacted with delegates in the Scottish capital.

English UK and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have signed a major agreement to develop ELT across Iraqi Kurdistan and enable English UK members to leverage opportunities presented through a scholarship programme.