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

ROI, partnerships and meeting student needs will be high priorities for colleges and universities this year. Read more