A government-regulated private education system in Burma, well educated Iranians able to articulate smoothly overseas and an appetite for English language training in Cuba: Sara Custer considers opportunities in some of the lesser travelled countries on the international education beat.

The reality is you are competing in a global job marketplace, so you need and should want to get international exposure for yourself and if you can get that through your job and through your MBA, so much the better.

A three-week MOOC to prepare volunteers to help refugees has been launched on FutureLearn this week in partnership with Cambridge English and Crisis Classroom.

Attracting and training talent from India was among the priorities during the Australian Business Week in India 2017 led by Trade Minister Steven Ciobo. The Group of Eight used the trip to push for a special class of visa for researchers and PhD graduates.

The economies of both the US and India could suffer if any curtailment of the H-1B visa scheme is introduced, a study from the Centre for Global Development has argued.

The inaugural PIEoneer Awards from The PIE team will celebrate the individuals and organisations that are reaching new heights in the global education field. Sara Custer provides a synopsis of the shortlisted entries.

International student enrolments across Chile showed modest growth in 2016, with neighbouring Latin American countries showing the greatest demand for degree programs and study abroad driven by interest in Europe and North America.

Fundamentally the problem is that international students go to agents for advice and agents will always have an incentive to point them to the universities that they are partnered with.