Andrew Lloyd Webber is calling for the government to recognise the transformative effect that classical music tuition can have on the lives of children in disadvantaged communities. Read more

A slate of diversity plans filed by individual schools within the University of Tennessee-Knoxville will require some professors to commit to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practices to gain tenure, create a new critical race center on campus, and embed diversity-based curricula throughout the university Read more

High school juniors who believe they can’t afford higher education are about 20 percentage points less likely to attend college within the first three years after high school than peers who don’t think affordability is a barrier. Read more

People are spending an average of 4.8 hours a day on their mobile phones, according to app monitoring firm App Annie. Read more

A class-action lawsuit claims price-fixing occurred at institutions for nearly two decades, costing students millions. Read more

Review recommends end of prison education programme following ‘unimaginable grief’ caused by 2019 killings of two delegates Read more

Five students say leading colleges and universities are acting as an illegal “cartel” in violation of antitrust law. One of the students’ lawyers is a former prosecutor in the Varsity Blues case. Read more

Labour has accused the government’s flagship national tutoring programme (NTP) of failing children and taxpayers after official figures revealed take-up rates way below target. Read more

American universities have adopted “Latinx” as a new way to describe people of Latin American descent without reference to sex or gender – but Latino people dismiss the descriptor, if they’ve even heard of it. Read more

Two Los Angeles police officers were fired for chasing Pokémon rather than fleeing robbers, court documents show. Read more