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The Australian government has raised the amount of savings that international students need to have in their bank accounts to get their student visas.

Hundreds of Oxford students rallied near university campuses to protest Israel’s war in Gaza. They have set up camps called “liberated zones.”

Russia plans to increase the number of international students enrolled at universities to at least 500,000 by 2030, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decree that sets a national development goal signed after his presidential inauguration.

At least 33 people were arrested during a pro-Palestine protest at George Washington University early Wednesday as police cleared out the encampment students had created on campus.

When applying for a student visa, international students are usually asked to submit evidence of sufficient funds in their bank accounts, to have their visas approved.

Students in Belgium and the Netherlands have joined the wave of protests around the world against the Israel-Hamas war, pitching dozens of tents on campuses, setting up barricades, and playing in drum circles. Pro-Palestianian students are asking their universities to cut ties with Israel.

The US Department of Education has opened an investigation into Columbia and Emory University for severe anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim discrimination on campus.

International students in California helped create 55,167 jobs in the 2022/23 academic year through spending at their higher education institutions, living expenses and other costs, according to a report from NASFA: Association of International Educators.

Columbia University said early on Monday it has canceled the university-wide commencement ceremony due to student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Richard Montgomery, said there were 52,000 Nigerian students' dependents in the United Kingdom in 2022, an increase of 50,500 from 2019, when there were only 1,500 dependents.