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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...
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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Will #virtual learning go viral after the pandemic passes? The further education industry has been through a period of radical change in the last few…
The rise of Covid-19 will change behaviours in education permanently The current issues we’re facing with education going digital and managing the curriculum online, has…
#DigitalTransformation – As the education landscape evolves, it’s becoming increasingly important for education institutions to adapt From admissions to enrolment, student communications to managing vast…
What are we supposed to feel? We are storytellers and map makers because of a need for permanence and certainty. What though are we supposed…
Youth Employment Group – Supporting Young People Through the C-19 Crisis I think it is now accepted that the group who is most likely to…
What does the current #coronavirus crisis tell us about the future of work-based learning? It is obviously too early to appreciate the long-term impacts of…
COVID-19 is an opportunity for engineering go further in building a sustainable society Speaking of his experience during the coronavirus, Alan Lusty, CEO of multidisciplinary…
Like many sectors, Further and Higher Education (FHE) has been massively affected by the coronavirus pandemic, with campuses closed, students learning at home and whole…
Help students get a head-start on their @UCAS_online applications despite school closures and use project-based work (#PBL) to enrich their subject knowledge and broader skill…
Earlier this month the @ESFAgov announced it was to pause the start of any new routine funding audits for all post-16 providers for the short-term, as result…
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