Mentoring scheme extended to encourage foreign language take up: Addressing a serious decline in the number of Welsh pupils learning foreign languages is “urgent” following the Brexit vote, academic warns.

EU-student funding guarantee extended: EU students applying for a place at English universities for the next academic year will be eligible for loans and grants, ministers have said. The government’s guarantee means EU students applying to study from 2017-18 will be able to access the same funding and support they are now.

The London School of Economics says some of its academics have been barred from advising the Foreign Office on Brexit because they are not British: The university said the leader of a project had been told only UK passport-holders should be involved in talks on national security and foreign trade.

Foreign Office update: The Foreign Office has issued a statement on recent media reports on working with international academics.