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.

Discussions at EAIE last week revealed English medium instruction may be helping Asian universities improve their rankings, but students and professors alike say it's not always an improvement to learning and teaching methods.

Scotland's University of Aberdeen is set to open its first overseas campus in South Korea, making it the first UK higher education institution to open a branch in the country.

The latest figures from the Council for Graduate Schools show a radical shift in top source markets for graduate students as first-time enrolments form Indian students at US graduate schools jump 40% offsetting a slow down of growth from Chinese students to 5%.