Britain’s NEET crisis is no longer a warning sign; it is a structural failure. The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures (Jan-March 2026) estimate...
Across further and higher education, widening participation has become one of the defining policy priorities of the past two decades. Institutions have rightly focused on...
Young people today are entering a world in upheaval. Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, record-breaking temperatures, and the accelerating rise of AI is...
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...
New research published today reveals a ‘happiness gap’ between people born into different social classes. People’s childhood social class continues to have a significant impact…
Adobe unveiled Adobe’s productivity agent, which brings decades of Acrobat document intelligence into a single agentic interface to transform how people understand, create and share…
Mental Health Awareness Week is here! The theme for Mental Health Awareness Week 2026 is Action. Because, while awareness is vital, real change comes when…
NORTH WALES is set to train more homegrown healthcare professionals than ever before after Coleg Cambria and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) signed a…
Oxford International and Ulster University have today announced an innovative 10-year partnership designed to establish new routes for international students into the employment-focused university in…
Paid sick leave continues to top the list of benefits and incentives that are most important to employees, according to new research by HR software…
A strategic partnership between Waltham Forest College, the Waltham Forest Council and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is driving a shared ambition to…
A cohesive approach to tackling skill shortages is the focus for Regional Skills Hub manager, Dan Baldwin Trading in the sun and surf of Australia’s…
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) has awarded the contract to deliver the ACTIVE Cup project management competition to 20/20 Project Management Training. The…
The Department for Education is investing £6 million in two new research centres that will directly shape how education policy is made, putting the best…
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