A “handful of institutions” are “opening so-called liaison offices abroad, distinguished by their multiple missions to support international teaching, research, student exchange, and alumni engagement,” reports the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The United States government has deemed Farsi as “critical...for a growing number of government jobs in intelligence and defense,” reported the Washington Post, yet "icy relations" make it very difficult for Farsi students to engage in academic exchanges with Iran in order to bolster their language skills:

“Learning a language often is a waste of time,” says Jay Mathews, author of the Washington Post’s education blog, ‘Class Struggle,’ in his most recent post.

Lee Hamilton, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars and former U.S. Representative from Indiana, says that “the internationalization of American education is soft power in action.” In an opinion piece for the Indy Star, Hamilton discusses the need for the U.S.

Once a “voracious consumer” of American higher education, Japan’s student enrollment in U.S. universities is steadily declining, the Washington Post reports. “Undergraduate enrollment [from Japan] in U.S.

The United States should expand educational exchange opportunities for professors between Iraq and the United States, writes Karim Altaii, a professor of engineering at James Madison University and president of the Iraqi-American Higher Education Foundation, in an op-ed in the New York Times.

A report issued by Britain’s Department of Business, Innovation, and Skills looking at the international competitiveness of Britain's postgraduate education concludes that while the new points-based visa system implemented last year “should make it easier for legitimate postgraduates to study in the UK,” there are concerns that long processing delays will “damage the reputation of the UK,” the Financial Times reported.

Applications from prospective international students to U.S. graduate schools for fall 2010 increased by 7 per cent overall, according to a Council of Graduate Schools report released today. This growth was driven largely by increased applications from China, which rose 19 per cent. Applications from India and South Korea appear to have stabilized, the Council reports, after significant declines last year. Additionally, applications from international students to U.S.

At a time when enrollment and annual giving is down, private primary and secondary schools have begun “aggressive international efforts…to recruit from among rising numbers of East Asian students capable of paying full fare,” the Washington Post reports. Private schools are reaching out to foreign “parents interested in giving their children a running start toward a prized American college diploma”:

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on foreign students’ struggles to find employment in their host country after their undergraduate studies. “Foreign students are choosing where to study based not just on where they can get the best education, but also on where their post graduation job prospects are brightest”: