Explore true cost economics, an approach that includes external costs like pollution in pricing, ensuring a more accurate ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Donald Trump vowed to launch “the largest deportation operation in American history,” and he has been dispatching federal agents into cities across the country to carry it out. The initiative is ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power by Victoria Bateman (Headline/Seal Press) Women have ...

Prize showcases work on factors that underpin economic growth Winners are professors at U.S., French and British universities Aghion wants Europe to learn from U.S. and China Howitt questions Trump's ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Today’s GCSE results reveal that music has one of the highest increases in uptake, of any subject in 2025. More than 38,000 students took GCSE music in 2025, an increase of 6.1% compared to 2024. In ...

Pupils picking up their GCSE results today face the 'fiercest ever' scramble for college places as results show more top grades were awarded this year. The proportion of GCSE entries awarded top ...

Pupils across Merseyside will receive their GCSE grades today. Across the country, hundreds of thousands of school children will be nervously waiting to find out how they have done. Results are ...

The number of pupils sitting resits this year was at an all-time high For almost a quarter of pupils taking Maths and English GCSEs this year, it wasn't their first rodeo. Some 23.4% of pupils taking ...

More than 600,000 teenagers have been opening GCSE and other Level 2 results on Thursday. Most have just finished Year 11, marking the end of a secondary school journey that began in Covid "bubbles" ...

For almost a quarter of pupils taking Maths and English GCSEs this year, it wasn't their first rodeo. Some 23.4% of pupils taking those exams were aged 17 and older - an all-time high. While some of ...