Ministers will drop the term black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME), beef up local scrutiny of police stop and search and draft a model history curriculum to teach Britain’s “complex” past in response to the Sewell report on racial disparities. Read more

The Democratic chairs of the Senate and House education committees urged President Biden to extend the freeze on student loan payments, which currently is expected to end in May. Read more

In a nod to frustrated faculty, the University of Oregon is giving them more power as pandemic numbers improve. Read more

Adherence to COVID restrictions has become the litmus test for social acceptance, a source of meaning and morality. For isolated individuals, they provide the illusion of being part of a group—part of protecting people and being a good citizen. Read more

With pieces of paper and some markers, students at Complejo Educativo Bilingüe Mas Camarena in Valencia, Spain drew what freedom means to them. Read more

A federal judge ordered the University of Iowa (UI) to pay $1.9 million in fees and damages after two student groups won a series of religious discrimination lawsuits against the university. Read more

Few teachers are aware that equalities legislation applies to their school’s policies on hair, despite high-profile court cases affecting black students who have been penalised or excluded for their hairstyles, a survey has found. Read more

UT Austin lost a pregnancy- and sex-bias case against a professor who said the university held her motherhood against her in her tenure bid. Now the university owes her $3 million. Read more

Cornell University is working to hire a “Critical Pedagogy and Equity Librarian” for Mann Library, which is focused on life sciences, agriculture, applied social sciences and human ecology. Read more

The dispute comes as California’s public universities receive a surge of applications, now two years removed from the start of the pandemic. Read more