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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Steve Nash, Chief Executive at the Institute of the Motor Industry, looks at the challenges when it comes to increasing the uptake of apprenticeships: …
Imagine you have just made the transition to year seven, to big school, and it is the end of the first term. That means it…
The tragedy of the collapse of large national Training Providers like 3aaa and other major providers over the past 18 months, are still very deep…
Some of you might have picked up that I am finally, after eight years, moving jobs. I’ve had a fabulous time at ERSA and I’m…
I was watching the BBC [BBC Breakfast, 15/10/18] and they ran a segment on a new report that says that dyslexics – like me –…
The requirements for assessor roles can vary from employer to employer and qualification to qualification. However, generally speaking, to become an assessor, you need two…
This is part two of the article (part 1 can be found in the 2 October edition of this magazine). 5: Learning by numbers This…
If you are a practitioner in the further education, training and skills’ sector, it can be confusing knowing which qualification you should hold. I say…
“Don’t let the training providers steal your lunch” said Nick Boles in 2015. In delivering the bulk of apprenticeships in the UK, training providers have…
Today’s students are tech-savvy and have high expectations when it comes to education, which puts pressure on educational institutes. Teachers, lecturers and academics are all…
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