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,...
UK government and organisations are constantly discussing ongoing skills shortages and apprenticeships and employability, yet one of the biggest untapped resources that often gets overlooked...
The Level 4 AI and Automation Practitioner apprenticeship launched by Skills England has arrived at a difficult moment for the FE sector. The management apprenticeship...
The term NEET has long been used as shorthand for young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training. It is often framed as...
New apprenticeship reforms could play an important role in improving diversity across the UK workforce, particularly as policymakers seek to widen access to skilled careers and address persistent barriers...
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Five things to watch in 2020 that could help break the low-skilled equilibrium in disadvantaged places We enter the 2020s as a country divided by…
If Further Education is considered the overlooked middle child of the UK’s education system, adult learning might be seen as a distant cousin. The Learning…
Managing and mitigating conflicts of interest is a critical part of the design and delivery of End-point Assessment (EPA). It must be covered in applications…
Closing the nuclear #skills gap As it takes shape on the Somerset coast, you can’t fail to be impressed by the spectacle of Hinkley Point…
Further Education Teacher Educators This series of three articles on further education (FE) teacher educators is based on the research monograph, Professional Development of Teacher…
With the target of three million #apprenticeship starts by April 2020 having long been discredited, government attention this year is set to focus on how…
Dilemmas, dualisms and dialectics – Professor Martin Doel asks, what’s next for further education? #FutureofFE “Never make predictions, especially about the future” – Yogi Berra At the…
As the detail of T Levels has been announced, a considerable amount of attention has been focused on the industry placement element of the courses.…
“Today we bundle a number of different activities into the apprenticeship programme, unnecessarily complicating the system, diluting the brand, reducing value for money, and at…
In the post Brexit world when we are likely to see more challenging trading conditions and find it harder to recruit, it will be more…
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