Now in its 20th year, the Regina-Fujioka Student Exchange Program has offered local students in Grades 7 and 8 the chance to travel to Japan and stay with a host family for 10 days. The program runs in two-year cycles; Regina students host teens from Fujioka one year, experiencing Japan themselves the next.

China has been wooing foreign universities and foreign students in a bid to internationalise its universities and as part of a ‘soft power’ policy to project itself internationally...“There is a clear national policy in China of ‘soft power’ using education," said Yang Rui, an assistant professor in Hong Kong University’s faculty of education.

As one of 40 US graduate students in the 2012 Sino-US Young Professionals in Science and Engineering Exchange Program, Campbell will spend two months conducting his study at Tsinghua University in Beijing...It aims to improve academic and cultural exchange between young professionals from China and the US.

Through the Colombo Plan, the Menzies Government draw in the best and brightest students to universities in Australia and students who came to Australia under the plan developed this lasting impression and an understanding of our country and our way of life and built a legacy of enduring friendship between peoples and countries in the region.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- In an effort to increase the understanding of entrepreneurship and business education in the Arab world, the Coca-Cola Co. and the U.S. State Department are sponsoring 100 college students from across the Middle East and North Africa to study in a unique program at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

The US Consulate had planned to set up the centre for cultural exchange at the university but scrapped the same after sanctioning a sum of Rs 43 lakh to the OUCIP. “The decision was justified citing the politically charged atmosphere on the campus and the inaccessibility of the campus,” officials at the OU said.

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) has launched the Global Connections and Exchange program which uses technology and interactive projects to connect American secondary schools with international institutions...Other educational nonprofit organizations are involved in grassroots educational diplomacy initiatives.