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...
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The conversation about the future of colleges is alive and kicking in the UK, and with the world changing at pace, it comes as no…
Following the publication of the annual Ofsted report on 1 December 2020, James O’Dowd, Founder of the Patrick Morgan Foundation (@pmfoundationuk), discusses how the pandemic…
In today’s digital world, businesses can identify the precise needs of their customers and curate products accordingly. Take the example of e-commerce websites: based on…
Today we have seen the inaugural External Quality Assurance Report issued by The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) as we reach the first…
Working in the further education and skills sector, it is difficult to keep up sometimes. Learning providers such as @SkillsNetworkUK (TSN) are operating in a heavily regulated…
This past year has been a rollercoaster to say the least for students across the UK. From multiple reports of increased hate crime, particularly amongst…
What did last month’s Spending Review tell us about the future of skills devolution in England? It confirmed that, under a UK Government with strong…
Having worked in the hospitality sector for over 30 years, developing new talent and educational opportunities for the industry is something that I am very…
#FutureOfEducation – The pandemic has hit many sectors hard, but really, we are only just at the beginning of this crisis and there is much…
The new Restart programme to help long-term unemployed people back to work is welcome, but the devil’s in the detail. It’s great news that the…
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