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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EDHEC Business School has recruited 11 new professor-researchers for the new academic year. This represents a 30% increase in the last three years. These new…
Durham University Business School has appointed Rupert Hoogewerf to its academic staff as part of its new Professors in Practice initiative. Professors in Practice has…
The Secretary of State has appointed Pippa Shirley as a Member of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art (RCEWA) for a…
Professor Jennifer Rubin has been appointed to the independent Industrial Strategy Council. The Council met on 1 November 2018 for the first time. Professor Rubin is the…
Senior individuals from business, academia and civil society complete the line-up of the Industrial Strategy Council. Full membership of the independent Industrial Strategy Council announced…
Andrew Warren will oversee academies across the region to help raise standards Andrew Warren, Chair of the Teaching Schools Council and Executive Director of Manor…
The Government has today announced the organisations that will sit on the Executive Board of a new national body to tackle online harms in the…
The University’s School of Literature and Languages has appointed internationally renowned writer and film-maker Iain Sinclair as its new Distinguished Writer-in-Residence. In his role Iain…
Durham University is delighted to announce that Andrew Wright has joined as a Professor in Practice, jointly through the Business School and the Engineering Department.…
Lisa Hunter has been appointed Director of Communications for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) following an external open competition for the role. Lisa…
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