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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Dame Martina Milburn has been put forward as the preferred candidate for the new Chair of the Social Mobility Commission. Education Secretary Damian Hinds has today…
Dame Martina Milburn has been put forward as the preferred candidate for the new Chair of the Social Mobility Commission Education Secretary Damian Hinds has…
Stuart Cameron has been appointed Managing Director of Commercial Operations at University Centre Quayside (UCQ), which recently launched its Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (CMDA). Stuart…
The City & Guilds Group is delighted to announce the appointment of Martin Hottass as Managing Director of the City & Guilds Institutes of Advanced…
The UK’s leading IT and business skills training and education provider, QA Group, has today announced the appointment of Nathan Runnicles as Chief Financial Officer.…
Jessica Leigh Jones and Professor Malcolm Press have been appointed as non-executive members of the Institute for Apprenticeships board for 5 years, from 1 June…
Haringey Sixth Form College is delighted to announce the appointment of vastly experienced Haringey Hawkes Basketball Coach, Franck Batimba as Head Coach of the Basketball…
NPTC Group of Colleges’ Corporation Board Member Professor Donna Mead has been appointed as the new chair of Velindre NHS Trust in Cardiff. She takes…
Leeds College of Building CEO & Principal, Ian Billyard, has announced his intention to retire after 22 years at the institution. Ian, a former building…
DfE today (1 May) published information about non-executive appointments to the Department for Education’s public bodies. Social Work England Chair Lord Patel of Bradford has been…
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