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

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