A MoU to promote academic cooperation and build Hanyang University's reach into the ASEAN region has been signed with the Asia School of Business.

English won’t be part of the curriculum for primary schools until grade three to allow children to develop their Korean language skills first, government officials said.

Vietnam has used last month's Asia Europe Ministers Education Meeting to finalise a €578,000 with Ireland and start negotiations with Norway. It is hoped the deal will encourage mobility between the two nations.

The Egyptian Ministry of Investment and International Cooperation has received a $6m grant from South Korea that will be used to establish a Korean technical education facility.

Scotland’s University of Aberdeen will open the UK’s first branch campus in South Korea later this year, backed by the country's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.

The qualifications recognition agreement could “open up a world of study opportunities” for young people in the two countries.

ACT, one of the leading US college admissions exam taken by more than 1.8m students across the globe, has closed all its test centres in South Korea, bar one, due to widespread cheating.

The latest figures from the Korean Ministry of Justice show just over 100,000 foreign students have enrolled in 2016.