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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
A professor at George Mason University has publicly spoken out against the school’s Covid-19 booster mandate in a published memo to the university president. Read more
State support for higher education in the US appears headed for a 10th straight year of increases, in some cases by large margins, defying widespread fears of Covid-driven economic crises and enrolment declines. Read more
The booming rural tourism across the country has significantly improved infrastructure in the depth of the mountains and brought positive influences to rural education. Read more
Leading scholars from Australian universities have joined scientific bodies to demand reversal of pre-election veto of humanities grants Read more
Some institutions that began the semester online are now pushing their return-to-campus dates further out in response to Omicron, citing spiking numbers and breakthrough infections. Read more
The Information Commissioners' Office (ICO) is to talk to Meta about how its virtual reality (VR) business Oculus complies with the regulator's "children's code". Read more
