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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This is the second of my articles on mentoring which followed the discussion I had during my lunch with my old friend, Andy. In the…
With the time for A Level and GCSE results upon us, the pressure is high for students to decide their future career at the young…
Last month, Radio 4 aired ‘The Forgotten Half’ – a shocking indictment of how we are failing young people who choose non-university routes into employment…
Editor’s note: Jacqui wrote this article for organisations interested in becoming end-point assessment organisations (EpAOs), back in 2019. She is still receiving calls and messages off the…
Goal setting within the workplace Recently, I was running a ‘Coaching and Mentoring in the Workplace‘ workshop where we explored the good old GROW model. GROW…
Functional skills tutors become used to supporting students who not only have trouble reading writing and spelling but who often think it is their fault…
We must do lunch I met Andy, an old schoolfriend of mine, for lunch recently. As the menus arrived, he was telling me how he’s…
When the previous Education Secretary, Damian Hinds, flagged that young people need more help than ever with independence, it felt like he was arriving a…
Last month saw #WorldYouthSkillsDay, run annually by the United Nations to educate the public on the importance of youth skills development. It is a pressing…
The Intuitive Campus Journey Developing and deploying an Intuitive Campus is no small task, so it clearly pays to think through the whole process before…
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