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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#G20SaudiArabia – The world is witnessing not only a change in the nature of work, but also in the nature of employment #FutureofWork #FutureofEmployment The…
Character Education: The Experience List Can Help Build #EmotionalIntelligence #EI Every day, we see teenagers doing amazing things for their DofE. Getting out of their…
Employee burnout is a real and prevalent issue in today’s economy. Roughly 20% of employees report high levels of engagement and job burnout, revealing that,…
Lessons and implications for valuing the complexities of these under-researched educationists This series of three articles on further education (FE) teacher educators is based on…
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According to recent reports, Skills Advisory Panels (SAPs) may be given a role in influencing and even deciding which courses will be prioritised and funded…
FE News chat with Lucy Hunte, National Programme Manager, Apprenticeships Talent for Care, with Health Education England about scaling Apprenticeship and T Level delivery at…
Exploring the mood and wellbeing of #FE Does this better describe the students, or the whole sector? The parallels abound, in Leading by Listening: Reflective…
Britain is an ambitious nation. According to research from The Open University’s Free Your Ambition campaign more than nine in 10 Britons have an ambition in…
For International Women and Girls in Science Day (11 Feb) ABM UK’s divisional director, Justine Salmon, gives her views on how to inspire the next generation of female #talent in #STEM The…
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