It’s been a couple of weeks since the Milburn report was published, and I like everyone have been digesting the report and the analysis. Like a well-trained student,...
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...
Exceptional tutors from across Wales have been presented with an Inspire! Award, in recognition of their dedication to helping adults return to education and overcome…
The achievements of the University of Sunderland’s apprentices have been celebrated at a special award ceremony to mark the end of National Apprenticeship Week. The…
Hull College proudly celebrated the exceptional talents and achievements of its apprentices last week at the highly anticipated Future Stars Apprenticeship Awards 2025. Held on…
Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor students Jordan Pyper and Keegen Vidamour invited their F1 in Schools sponsors Faun Trackway Limited to see them compete in Skills Competition Wales.…
Changes to improve the way Ofqual both supports compliance and takes regulatory action were put out for consultation today. The changes are designed both to…
Anyone who falsely creates a qualification certificate, or alters a genuine one and passes it off as their own, is committing qualification fraud. Qualification fraud…
Ofsted’s Proposed ‘Report Card’ At the core of Ofsted’s current consultation is the proposed ‘report card’ showing which of five grades a school, college or independent provider…
Grŵp Llandrillo Menai and RWE apprentice Madeleine Warburton has this week joined up with the WorldSkillsUK training squad for Shanghai 2026. Madeleine, an apprentice wind…
Barking & Dagenham College is urging people to consider becoming an apprentice, to either start a career or change career for older people. During National…
Twenty-seven of the finest apprentices working in Wales have had their hard work and determination celebrated at the Cardiff and Vale College Apprenticeship Awards 2025.…
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