The US House of Representatives is in the initial stages of passing a legislation which will reestablish Fulbright student exchanges to China and Hong Kong.

The US state department announced late last week that the Afghan Fulbright program would be cancelled this academic year, prompting backlash from students and stakeholders.

The US flagship international educational exchange program, the Fulbright Program, has celebrated it 75th anniversary in Washington DC.

The chairman of e-commerce giant Rakuten has made a personal ¥90,000,000 donation to support future Japanese participants in the US Fulbright program.

Celebrations were held at the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC for the 70th anniversary of the Fulbright Program in Italy, a scholarship program for academic exchanges founded in 1946.

The US's flagship study abroad scholarship, the Fulbright Program, is actively seeking a more diverse cohort of students, as numbers reveal that in this academic year, almost two third of participants are white. A total of 1,847 students received awards in 2015/16 through the student programme.

King Felipe of Spain spoke this week with current students and alumni of the Fulbright Program about the importance of academic exchange at the Institute of International Education. Speaking at the event the king said the programme "has had an enormous impact when it comes to building bridges between societies and cultures."

Leaders of Fulbright's Austrian-American Educational Commission have issued a call to arms to oppose an "unprecedented and gigantic" USD$30 million cut to the Fulbright Program in the Obama administration's Federal Budget Proposal.