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 ...

07:58, Wed, Nov 5, 2025 Updated: 08:03, Wed, Nov 5, 2025 The Government will work to reduce GCSE exam time by two-and-a-half to three hours for the average student, following a curriculum review that ...

The final curriculum review report, commissioned by Labour last year, has recommended exam volume at key stage 4 be reduced by 10%. The Department for Education said it would work with the regulator ...

Ritwik is a passionate gamer who has a soft spot for JRPGs. He's been writing about all things gaming for six years and counting. No matter how great a title's gameplay may be, there's always the ...

A Nigerian student, Kenechukwu Oluwanifemi Uba, has emerged the “Top in World” candidate in the November 2024 Cambridge IGCSE English as a Second Language (Speaking Endorsement). Uba, a pupil of Caleb ...

London students have continued to score the best GCSE results in the country despite the capital seeing the largest increase in the number of teenagers failing to get a decent pass. Hundreds of ...

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 ...

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Top GCSE grades in Wales have risen slightly, overall results published today show. As thousands of teenagers across Wales got their GCSE results there was a 3% fall in entries this year compared to ...

Hundreds of thousands of teenagers are finding out how well they've done at school this year as their GCSE results are finally released this morning. As is tradition, pupils are able to collect their ...

Hundreds of thousands of teenagers who moved from primary to secondary school during the pandemic have received their GCSE results - with the gender gap for top grades persisting. Nearly a quarter (24 ...

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 ...