Middle East-based education agency Yes Atlas will directly serve its first non-Arabic-speaking audience as it opens its first offices in Latin America.

The eighth Groningen Declaration Network conference in Mexico, will see at least 12 new signatories of its Declaration – including The PIE News.

Another education partnership has been sealed between Canada and Mexico, with an MoU signed by BCCIE and the Asociación Mexicana para la Educación Internacional.

Mexican-based app company, Kinedu, has released its latest set of programs aimed at helping develop cognitive ability for two to four-year-olds.

Languages Canada has signed an MoU with Mexican university association Consorcio de Universidades Mexicanas to collaborate on language learning and internationalisation.

Canadian university presidents and research partners met with their Mexican counterparts in a mission aimed at strengthening collaborations and mobility.

Fortifying higher education links is crucial at a time when "tensions between the two countries are at the highest point in decades", the American Council on Education has said.

Canadian educators are reporting a surge of interest from Mexican students considering studying abroad because of a combination of relaxed visa rules between the two countries and the 'Trump effect'. "Canada has always been popular, but we have always had to compete with the United States; that is now changing," one said.