EC English Language Centres has opened a school in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that the company says will meet the needs of students unable to study abroad.

Around 80 Saudi students recently met with leading German companies in Frankfurt to discuss future job prospects offered by German firms in Saudi Arabia.

If we develop the education system as we expect and as our government [endeavours], I think we are going to attract people from different countries around the world

Soon Saudi is going to become a normal market where students are the engine not the scholarships, so students can choose whatever they want.

Boston-based online training provider Cengage has partnered with T4edu to deliver professional development to 1,000 of the country's English language teachers.

The government of Saudi Arabia is still committed to intensive ESL programmes as an entry point into new cultures and new experiences in the USA, through at least 2020, English USA delegates were told this month, as they learnt about the new normal.

Algonquin College in Canada has become the latest education provider to withdraw from Saudi Arabia’s Colleges of Excellence skills training initiative.

Some ESL providers in Canada have chosen not to comply with new KASP requirements and have been taken off the list of eligible recipients. Meanwhile, others which have, say student numbers continue to fall.