International student numbers at US graduate schools have continued along "troubling" trajectory for the second year running, with a 1% decline in international enrolments from fall 2017-18 and a 4% drop in international applications.

UK language learners have increasingly been using Lingvist's language learning application over the last eight months compared with 2016 statistics.

A growing number of institutions in the US are implementing test-flexible or test-optional policies for international applicants to remove barriers, accepting A-Levels and Gaokao scores as well as SATs.