The US House of Representatives is in the initial stages of passing a legislation which will reestablish Fulbright student exchanges to China and Hong Kong.

The Chinese government has a “multiprong strategy” for stealing the United States’ most “valuable secrets”, the director of the FBI said on January 31.

Parents are an underutilised audience for international education marketing, according to higher education marketing firm Carnegie Global

CNN and WeSpeke have partnered to create en.news, an app that uses news to create English lessons. The app uses AI to restructure the news into lessons.

Addressing the AIEA conference, Esther Brimmer urged delegates to “build bridges to keep the United States an open and welcoming society”.

Open English, the leading online English-language school in Latin America, this month began rolling out its services targeting the US's growing Hispanic communities.

The number of enrolments in foreign language courses in the US has dropped, however interest in Korean has shown a reverse trend due to growing interest in the region.

According to the Institute of International Education the number of international students in the US has grown by an impressive 8% to reach an all-time high of 886,052 in 2013. Big gains were seen in enrolments from China and Saudi Arabia while an increase in Indian numbers has reversed a three-year decline.