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...
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...
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Adapting to global reconstruction and reinvention through fostering regional networks of competence There is general assent that the present pandemic has accelerated economic and social…
The waves that the Levy and new Standards caused across the vocational education world now seem like ripples in a pond compared to the tsunami…
An Existential Challenge Right now, leadership looks and feels vastly different than it did just a few weeks ago – So, welcome to the new…
#MentalHealth is not an add-on Mental health concerns are likely to emerge or to be compounded in lockdown. Being stuck indoors, being unable to see…
In recent weeks life in #FE organisations – and in a lot of other organisations – has changed. It’s almost as if the world has…
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted education in ways that would have seemed almost unthinkable not that long ago. Entire schools, colleges and universities are…
Minister for Skills and Apprenticeships in England, Gillian Keegan, speaks to Tom Bewick for #SkillsWorldLIVE on National #ThankaTeacher Day about Apprenticeship Reforms and Quality I’d like…
The Stars Have Never Seemed So Bright I was recently listening to a leader describe how they perceived that more innovation has happened in five…
It’s an unusual time to be talking about growth. The COVID-19 pandemic has rightly dominated our thought processes and news cycle for the better part…
Not The Time For Quick Fixes & Short-Termism During a conversation with a senior education manager about the current crisis, there was a pause and…
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