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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A new principal and chief executive officer of Coleg Sir Gâr and Coleg Ceredigon has been appointed by a board of directors, following the announcement…
Professor Bertrand Moingeon joins ESCP Europe as Executive Vice President and Dean for Executive Education and Corporate initiatives as of 1 September 2018. A Professor…
Coventry College has made two major appointments as it aims to boost business in the city ahead of City of Culture. Gemma Knott has returned…
Mike Dailly and Ann Harris have been appointed as non-executive directors to the Board of the Single Financial Guidance Body (SFGB). They will take up…
The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has reappointed John Davies, Sian Lewis and Guto Harri to the S4C Authority board. John…
The UK’s only specialist Further Education construction college will have a new CEO & Principal, following the retirement of the incumbent, Ian Billyard. It was announced…
Professor Lawrence Abeln has been appointed as the new President of Richmond, The American International University in London, by the Board of Trustees. Professor Abeln,…
Plymouth College of Art has appointed Paul Fieldsend-Danks in the new role of Academic Dean, as part of the College’s continued development as a distinctive…
Peter McCann, former Principal and Chief Executive of Kirklees College and Interim Principal at North Shropshire College, has been appointed as Chairman of leading distance…
Education Select Committee endorses appointment of Dame Martina Milburn as Chair of the Social Mobility Commission. Education Secretary Damian Hinds has today (13 July) confirmed…
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