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...
Further education (FE) in England has spent too long treating teacher training as an optional extra. That stance may have seemed tolerable in a sector…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 844: 25th April 2026. What Happens When There Aren’t Enough Jobs For Our Young People? This is the weekly e-newsletter…
The Sandwell Colleges welcomed the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, Rt Hon Peter Kyle, to their brand-new £9.3 million Cradley Heath Skills Campus…
On 23 April, students, staff and partners gathered for a symbolic “Breaking the Wall” ceremony to mark the start of construction on a brand-new campus…
An aspiring engineer from Warwickshire has been crowned as the Confederation of British Mealforming’s Apprentice of the Year last night. Sertec Group’s Jack Neal beat…
The Heart of Yorkshire Education Group has ranked first in Yorkshire & the Humber for student achievement amongst General Further Education Colleges, also securing fifth…
The Childcare Company’s biggest evolution in years comes as providers face staffing shortages, rising costs and capacity challenges A specialist early years training provider has…
The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) celebrated outstanding leadership and management at its annual President’s Dinner on Thursday 23 April 2026, hosted by CMI President Fiona…
Further education, work-based learning organisations and skills providers are all operating in a very complex environment – shaped by tight budgets, workforce shortages (with teacher…
Students from different disciplines and courses at The City of Liverpool College have been recruited to work on the production of a new virtual reality dance game. …
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