According to the latest ONS labour market data, youth unemployment has hit 14.7%. That means one in seven young people looking for work can't find...
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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American internet entrepreneur Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder of LinkedIn, once said that Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location. Having recently spent some time at…
Leading skills: Exploring leadership in Further Education colleges A recent review by the Behavioural Insights Team for the Government found compelling evidence that effective public…
This year’s National Apprenticeships Week happened against a bleak backdrop for those in the engineering community. Only in December, figures from the Department for Education…
Are pupils who were eligible for free school meals more likely to be Not in Employment, Education, and Training (NEET)? What about pupils who didn’t…
I have heard organisations and people saying that the gateway to end-point assessment (EPA) has become a tick box exercise. I have also heard others…
It was really encouraging to listen to skills minister Anne Milton’s latest interview with FE News when she called for the Institute (IfATE) to be…
There is an ongoing debate on the gender pay gap and women’s access to senior roles – but how well are female professors represented in…
Developing strong links with employers is a key priority for most FE colleges. Not only do our students need exposure to the real world of…
At the end of March a new report showed that while 60% of employers say being adaptable has become more important in the last decade,…
The UK’s economy is at risk due to the shortage in STEM skills – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – where there is a gap…
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