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 -...
Ellie Green, a Level 2 Foundation Year Access to Higher Education student from Neath College, has been awarded The Worshipful Livery Company of Wales Numeracy…
The plans will see 1,000 existing Work Coaches deployed in 2025/26 to deliver intensive voluntary support to around 65,000 sick and disabled people – helping them to break…
One hundred sport and physical activity students from colleges from Sunderland to Wolverhampton are jetting off on transformative international experiences. They will be visiting Miami and…
The 3rd installment in the “Unseen Observations” series features testimonials from two Walsall College educators who transitioned from skepticism to advocacy for self-directed, non-hierarchical classroom…
AoC warns that thousands of people are at risk of being turned away by their local college this September without more funding from the government…
Local employers and apprentices gathered last Friday for a roundtable discussion with Andrew Pakes, MP for Peterborough and Co-Chair of the Apprenticeships APPG, to discuss…
Suffolk New College is backing a national campaign called Colleges Week. Set up by the Association of Colleges (AoC) in 2018, this year, activities will…
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and return-to-work experts Career Returners are calling on recruiters and employers to break free from misconceptions and take concrete…
COLEG CAMBRIA has called for Wales-wide student transport equity and condemned the ‘postcode lottery’ facing learners and their families. The college is calling for urgent…
Biopharmaceuticals and medical technology key in driving demand for talent New research has revealed up to 70,000 additional jobs will be needed in the UK…
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