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 -...
Alan Milburn’s Young People and Work interim report should land as a national alarm bell. Nearly one million young people are now not in education,...
We catch up with Gavin Lumsden, Director of Essential Teaching UK, who is a teacher educator and author discusses workforce development in FE and Skills…
New Training Facilities Signal Potential Across England, new training facilities are opening as FE colleges anticipate rising demand for retrofit and sustainable building skills. In…
ELITE Supported Employment, a respected and trusted Welsh charity, has joined forces with leading not-for-profit organisation Fedcap to expand its mission to help even more…
As part of Cardiff Capital Region’s Cluster Development and Growth Programme, Cardiff and Vale College is helping to stimulate the growth of small businesses with…
A Professional Culinary Arts Level 2 student from City of Oxford College and University Centre, Josh Zitha, has won first prize at the British Association…
A moving exhibition celebrating Northampton’s people, places and industries has been created by talented students from Northampton College. The Places, People, Professions exhibition features photos…
To mark the fifth anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdown, a University of Sunderland academic has launched her new photography series that pays tribute to healthcare…
A Nursing student at the University of Winchester is featured in new NHS case study. Myles Jordan is the first Learning Disability (LD) Nurse (RNLD) to…
Up to 60,000 more specialist Construction workers will be trained by 2029 to tackle Construction Skills shortages. £100 million of new investment to fund 10…
As the Labour Government sets out its Five Missions, adult learning emerges as a vital force in addressing skills shortages, driving economic growth, and fostering…
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