Secretary of state Blinken and secretary of education Cardona have crafted a letter to US superintendents encouraging the hosting of international students.

With an estimated 2.7 million children having fled Ukraine since March, schools are beginning to welcome children displaced by the Russian invasion into their classrooms. 

A school in Taiwan has become the first public school in the region to offer the South Australian senior secondary curriculum to its students

Pre-university program SACE International has joined in a “collaborative partnership” with Sri Lankan school group, Gateway College, in what the two institutions describe as a “first for Sri Lanka and South Asia”.

The number of diploma seeking foreign secondary students in the US has more than tripled in the last decade and a report commissioned by the Institute of International Education shows more students have clear ambitions to be more competitive in higher education application pools.

Chinese admissions at US private high schools have climbed dramatically over the last five years, reaching 23,795 last year according to federal figures – up from 4,500 in 2008. The surge is good news for schools which have seen enrolments fall but some warn the influx may affect diversity at US universities.