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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The Futures board are pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Brammall as Chief Executive Officer. Peter brings a wealth of experience from across the…
Training specialist PHX Training has appointed Briony Fawcett to lead it into the future as it grows its network across the north west. With experience…
Brooklands College has announced a change in the Senior Leadership Team following the resignation of Principal, Gail Walker. Gail, who was appointed Principal in 2016,…
DAVID JONES OBE will step down as Chief Executive of Coleg Cambria later this year. Cambria’s board of governors thanked him for his efforts and…
Makers, Europe’s premier software engineering training provider, today announced the appointment of Claudia Harris as Chair. She will be instrumental in helping the organisation seek out new…
The Nuffield Foundation has appointed technology entrepreneur, investor and adviser Azeem Azhar to the board of the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research and deliberative…
UCAS is delighted to announce Professor Koen Lamberts has been appointed Chair of our Board of Trustees. Professor Lamberts is an exceptional leader in the…
Leading computer scientist Simon Peyton Jones appointed chair of new National Centre for Computing Education. One of Britain’s leading computer scientists has been appointed as…
The University of Law (ULaw) has announced the appointment of current Pro Vice Chancellor External, Professor Peter Crisp, as Dean of its new Hong Kong…
THE NEW principals of Lewisham College and Southwark College have started in their roles to lead on the mission to unlock potential through learning in…
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