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...
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 -...
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Technology is fundamental in today’s workforce, and most companies have undergone significant digital transformations in order to not be left behind. This digitalisation has created…
In 1968 sanitation workers across New York City went on strike. Frustrated by the precariousness of their employment terms and stagnating level of take-home pay,…
When I was contemplating applying to become a college principal I was haunted by the kind of person I thought I needed to be: “Strong-willed,…
Universities need to adapt to changing patterns of work Universities and further education colleges, from both public and private sectors, make the central contribution to…
Delivering great training online is more about engagement than IT skills Delivering FE and skills provision to learners remotely is not easy. And it’s not…
Be #agile or be at risk Agility has always been an important mindset but we now find ourselves in the position where it is…
For #InternationalNursesDay2020 today (12 May) Alison Kilduff, Head of #MentalHealth #Nursing @DerbyUni highlights the acute shortage of nurses working with people with psychological conditions and learning disabilities,…
The Colour of Courage Courage, this has been a word I have examined over the past few weeks and continue to explore on both a…
Further Education, Professional and Occupational Pedagogy This series of articles is taken from the research monograph, Further Education, Professional and Occupational Pedagogy: Knowledge and Experiences…
I keep reading about the death of adult learning. But I don’t believe it! It started with the Learning and Work Institute’s adult participation survey…
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