A scheme that funds mobility scholarships for projects promoting global leadership in Canada and the Commonwealth has welcomed a donation from the International Development Research Centre.

Global superstar Rihanna has announced a new scholarship that will fund study abroad in the US for students from Brazil, Barbados, Cuba, Haiti, Grenada, Guyana and Jamaica.

Institutions across the world are introducing new scholarships and support for refugees displaced by the conflict in Syria, while others are bolstering existing programmes as the refugee crisis escalates.

This week, Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science Jet Bussemaker presented the first awards for the Netherlands’s new national scholarship programme this week during a breakfast at Schiphol Airport.

India’s Telangana state government has approved the first round of scholarships funding 258 low-income students to study abroad at postgraduate level, it has announced.

British Columbia has announced CAN$150,000 in scholarship funding for 120 students from China, Japan and South Korea. The province has also signed agreements to expand education cooperation with Asia.

IIE has launched a $400,000 scholarship fund to support 160 students to study abroad through its Generation Study Abroad initiative to double the number of US students studying abroad by 2019.

New Zealand is aiming to increase its profile as a study destination in Latin American as the minister of tertiary education, skills and employment visited the region for the first time last month and announced expanded mobility agreements with key trade countries.