The Goethe Institut has temporarily suspended a program that allows students from Morocco the opportunity to spend a few weeks studying at a school in Germany.

A Goethe Institute and Yunus Emre Institute partnership will offer artists across France, Germany, the Netherlands and Turkey international work placements.

Overseas students registered at German universities passed a record 250,000 in 2011 with the largest group coming from China. This is up from 233,600 in 2008 with those from overseas now representing 11.4% of all students in Germany, according to a new report from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).