Durham University’s largest donor has pulled his financial support for the institution because of its Covid-19 restrictions. Read more

San Francisco residents recalled three members of the city’s school board in the first recall vote in the city since 1983. Read more

Ministers are stopping supplies of coronavirus tests to universities in England, in the first case of ending the mass distribution of free lateral flow testing kits before dropping all remaining Covid restrictions. Read more

Sixty-one per cent of US student fathers drop out of college – and little attention has been paid to the dismal graduation rates despite alarm bells Read more

The American national anthem may tout the country as the “land of the free”, but the legitimacy of that statement is becoming increasingly stretched in 2022, as conservatives have launched a concerted campaign to prevent ideas and books from being presented to schoolchildren. Read more

The lifting of Covid restrictions in England will lead to a further rise in home schooling and the “forced exclusion” of immunosuppressed pupils whose families will be too scared to send them to school, an academy trust leader has warned. Read more

I repaid my student loan early, but the Student Loans Company (SLC) is still deducting repayments – £1,089 over two months – from my earnings. The problem began when SLC assigned my final, lump‑sum payment to the wrong account. Its systems therefore show me as owing £12,000. It has admitted an error, but can’t say when I’ll be refunded. Read more

Students in England will have to pay back university loans over 40 years instead of 30 under swingeing reforms designed to save the Treasury tens of billions of pounds. Read more

The UK government has failed to back up its call for schools to ditch plastic, say campaigners, despite setting a 2022 target. Read more

Cambridge University lecturers are accusing the institution of pressuring them into taking on “explosive workloads” to deliver its famous one-on-one tutorials. Read more