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 -...
Alan Milburn’s Young People and Work interim report should land as a national alarm bell. Nearly one million young people are now not in education,...
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#Skills2030 – Now is the time to provide young people with the skills they need to succeed Young people in the UK are not receiving…
Managing learning and progress in #apprenticeships Following my previous article on planning the vocational curriculum, this one looks at how you actively manage teaching and…
If you’re a College Principal or senior leader in education it’s likely you’ve heard of the #GDPR (if you haven’t you must have been on…
Exposing the disguised academic snobbery of those who work at the heart of Westminster, Tom argues it is about time our elites looked at degrees…
How can the government’s spending commitments move the needle for #FE? Further Education (FE) institutions have long been promised the full attention of the Department…
As we move into what Klaus Schwab defines as The Fourth Industrial Revolution, and AI and machine learning become more present in day-to-day life, the…
A recently published study analyzing how violence affects young people has shone a spotlight on the issues facing why crime amongst teenage boys has been…
#EdTech is slowly replacing more traditional teaching methods and we are beginning to see #biometrics and #AI being used for admin purposes as well as…
The old adage “bad news sells” is clearly the case with the EDSK Runaway Training think tank report. Why did this negative piece of work make…
The Further Education agenda is one full of surprises, challenges and opportunities As I look across my own organisation I never cease to be amazed…
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