A report has underlined stakeholders' concerns that retaining international graduates could be more challenging if a reform of the H-1B visa system which favours the most skilled goes ahead.

President Donald Trump has reinstated some of the restrictions on travel and trade with Cuba, in what has been described as a “major setback” for international relations and education travel between the two countries.

The number of US institutions using education agencies to recruit undergraduate and graduate students has more than doubled in the past five years, according to a survey from the American Council on Education.

Foreign researchers coming to work at public Canadian universities for short periods no longer have to apply for a work permit.

One in five students using a commission-based agent to apply to a US higher education institution pays more than $1,000 for their services, according to a survey by World Education Services.

Online learning platform Coursera has secured another tranche of funding to the tune of $64m, bringing the total amount the platform has raised to $210m since its inception in 2012

The GoAbroad.com awards were held at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles last week, and winners included a study abroad program which sent students to cover the Olympic Games last year.

Shorelight Education will open its 13th pathway program next fall, through a partnership with the University of Dayton in Ohio.