According to the latest ONS labour market data, youth unemployment has hit 14.7%. That means one in seven young people looking for work can't find...
I was delighted to work with colleagues at FE News’ Breaking Barriers event on a construction job. We worked to take apart the youth employment...
For too long, the national conversation around success has treated university as the default route into a professional career. Yet across the UK, thousands of...
At the start of this month, leaders from across government, further education, skills, employability and employer groups gathered for the Breaking Barriers Collective, hosted by...
There is a particular kind of honesty that emerges when a room full of practitioners, advocates and leaders agrees to stop being polite about a...
The publication of the Milburn interim review on young people and work arrives at an important moment for England’s education, employment and skills system. With...
Something struck me recently at the Breaking Barriers / NEET Collective, held in central London on 2nd June 2026 - a FE News and Edge...
Recently, I visited PET-Xi in Coventry, and I left with a feeling I know all too well: admiration, frustration and a deep sense of déjà...
Practitioners, leaders, researchers and advocates gathered in London to do something the sector urgently needed: not just name the problem, but co-design the route out...
There’s a gulf between where many NEET young people are and where employers need them to be so that they can thrive in a job. The UK must find ways to bridge that gulf -...
Learners looking to fit their studies around a job or retrain for a new career will be able to benefit from a new student finance…
emlyon business school has partnered with L’atelier des Chefs to give students in its Master in Management program the opportunity to earn a CAP vocational…
@BordersCollege reinforced its commitment to regional skills development as Principal Pete Smith recently signed the IRES 2027+ Pledge. The pledge supports the next phase of…
Alan Milburn’s interim findings into young people not in education, employment or training publish at 11am on 28 May 2026. The 217 page diagnostic is…
The latest figures released today by the Office for National Statistics show 1,012,000 young people aged 16 to 24 were not in education, employment or…
THOUSANDS of students are benefiting from MADE – a Coleg Cambria programme delivering up to 350,000 hours of coaching and support annually. The service supports…
Today, Alan Milburn published his long-awaited interim review into why nearly one million young people in England are not in education, employment or training. His…
New research from the CDI reveals a generation in crisis over the world of work, and puts FE professionals at the centre of the solution.…
Alan Milburn warns that Britain faces a “generational fault line” unless it confronts the whole-system failure that has seen nearly one million young people locked…
NCG has strengthened its commitment to putting learners first, with all of its colleges now officially recognised as Learner Happiness Colleges. The recognition follows a successful…
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