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,...
Summer job postings are tracking below prior years, spelling yet fewer avenues for British youth in a tough labour market. London, 10th June 2026: New…
Luminate Education Group has received a positive Ofsted report for its Initial Teacher Education (ITE) provision under the new inspection framework, meeting the Strong standard…
While around 44% of workplaces now use AI every day, a new report has found adoption remains uneven and often limited in impact. Published today (10 June)…
Supported Interns from Burton and South Derbyshire College (BSDC) have been making a positive impact at the National Memorial Arboretum, where they have been gaining…
A @BordersCollege student is celebrating a remarkable turnaround after overcoming early challenges in education to secure a place at Queen Margaret University to study Nursing.…
“We don’t want to be seen as the exception, we want to be seen as the rule,” is the clear message coming from women in…
A £6 million expansion of Leeds City College’s School of Animal care and Land Management is underway. The upgrade to the college’s site at Temple…
Across Wales, thousands of young people are balancing their education with a huge responsibility outside of college: caring for a parent, sibling, grandparent or someone…
At the end of last year, the Employer Skills Survey highlighted that investment in training among UK businesses had fallen to its lowest levels since tracking began…
At the recent Breaking Barriers Collective, hosted by FE News and the Edge Foundation, over 60 leaders from across education, policy and business joined young…
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