The Chinese government has a “multiprong strategy” for stealing the United States’ most “valuable secrets”, the director of the FBI said on January 31.

The financial performance of global agency and data insights company IDP Education has declined by 9.9%, according to its 2021 financial report. Overall revenue declined from AUS$587.1 million in 2020 to $528.7m for FY2021.

Students at Afghanistan’s famed music school have been flown out of the country after the Portuguese government granted the pupils asylum.

A survey of over 4,000 university applicants by UKEAS has found a greater level of caution and indecision among prospective Asian students.

Students from Laos and Cambodia will be exempted from Taiwan's Covid-19 travel ban, bringing the total number of nationalities up to 13.

According to JASSO, 228,403 international students attended Japan’s HEIs in 2019, with an additional 83,811 studying at language schools.

Nearly three quarters of universities in both the UK and US dropped in the rankings of the newly released QS World University Rankings 2021.

An increasing number of countries are temporarily closing schools and colleges, while bans on study abroad activity are also being enacted in some countries because of Covid-19 fears.