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...
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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...
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Next week the Assessment panel convenes to appoint the new FE Commissioner, a post that has become increasingly important in setting the culture of the…
You never know building a system based on trust may just be the way forward. No one could have predicted during the first lockdown in…
2020 saw the education sector forced into an abrupt shift. The move to widespread remote education defied decades of conventional wisdom, and required obligatory changes…
With schools, colleges and universities making a sudden return to online delivery – expectations regarding the quality of remote teaching and learning are high. Education…
Organisations today are more digital than ever, which has meant that, cybersecurity is now one of the most important ingredients for success. And with the…
In light of the growing negative impact of uncertainty in schooling arrangements and negative impact of the new strain of virus, supporting people’s livelihoods and…
Education and skills can unlock people from poverty: we must rise to the challenge of a new lockdown and build the foundations for a just…
While born out of a truly tragic event, the globalisation of the Black Lives Matter movement may have been the one redeeming feature of 2020.…
We are starting this lockdown in a different position to the one we unexpectedly found ourselves in March It’s certainly not been the start to…
2020 was perhaps the most challenging and important year for HR on record. As businesses struggled against the global pandemic, People teams were crucial with…
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