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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...
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The government’s announcement that austerity is over will undoubtedly encourage a clamour of voices from all areas of public service asking for more cash in…
There is a well-known proverb, which I am sure you know: “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” The Department…
The UK government’s White Paper released last month finally allowed educators and universities to breathe a sigh of relief: the UK-EU relationship of the future…
Productivity is a very British problem. According to the latest figures from the OECD, us Brits are among the hardest workers in Europe, averaging three…
Why I’m glad TV is teaching my children… Growing up as a young girl on the fringes of Salford and Manchester, there were very few…
The UK debt crisis is increasing every year. One of the biggest issues facing Great Britain, yet still nothing is being done about this at…
In England and the UK, the ICT and computing curriculums have long been falling behind the rest of the world. Despite the major shake-up to…
Last week in Birmingham a new package of Levy reforms were announced…. Was it the end of the Severn bridge ’hard’ funding border? X Was…
A lack of understanding about the new apprenticeship reforms is creating unnecessary barriers to entry for many employers, but especially SMEs. Whether it’s confusion over…
Valued and well understood, vocational and technical qualifications (VTQs) prepare learners for the workplace and equip them with relevant technical skills. These are just some…
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