Thousands of students are collecting their marks on Thursday morning, hoping that their grades are enough to secure a place at university, college or an apprenticeship. According to UCAS, some 262,820 ...

The Skills Minister has warned making changes to student loan repayments "costs a lot of money" as she was quizzed about the price of going to university on A-Level results day. The number of UK ...

Polls have opened in the Clacton by-election in a highly unusual contest that sees Nigel Farage battling a dustbin and a host of independent candidates standing. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage quit as ...

More than 50,000 who would be eligible for A-levels will not be receiving their results this week as they have dropped out of education in a so-called NEET crisis. Education Secretary Lucy Powell has ...

Some 262,820 18-year-olds in the UK have been accepted, up 3% from 255,130 last year. Ucas said it is the highest number of placed students on results day on record, driven by a rising number of ...

The family of a grandmother who was killed in her home say they are “desperate” for answers, in an appeal made on what would have been her 69th birthday. Rose Johnston was found with a blunt-force ...

Some 262,820 18-year-olds in the UK have been accepted, up 3% from 255,130 last year. A former detective says she was forced out of the police in a “witch hunt” after challenging its approach to ...

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0.4% between April and June, down from 0.6% growth in the first three months of the year. Its data showed growth of 0 ...

A Treasury employee who took her own life the day after a meeting with management was the subject of a “vexatious” complaint, her mother said. Chloe Moffat, 26, died on May 20 last year, the day after ...

Britain’s economic growth slowed in the second quarter but a boost from record hot weather and the World Cup helped offset impacts from the Iran war in a better-than-expected performance in June, ...

With A level results day looming, many students will be weighing up their options – deciding whether to apply through ...

All young people need to have the right information and advice to make informed choices about their own future, writes ...