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...
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 -...
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NPTC Group of Colleges is delighted to announce that Professor Richard Tong, former Dean of the Cardiff School of Sport at Cardiff Metropolitan University, is…
Newcastle United Foundation has announced the appointment of Judith Doyle to its board of trustees. Judith is principal and chief executive of Gateshead College and…
New MP ambassadors appointed to champion apprenticeship programme. The Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills Anne Milton has today (24 Oct) announced a series of appointments to…
The Secretary of State has appointed Richard Pennycook to be Lead Non-Executive Board Member. The Department for Education has announced today, Monday 23 October, the appointment…
The new Chair of London South East Colleges, Stephen Howlett, has been appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of…
Plymouth College of Art has appointed Christy Johnson as its second Vice Principal, in the most recent move in its development as a distinctive and…
South Staffordshire College is announcing the appointment of a new Chair of Governors, Steve Burgin, who has been appointed to succeed Councillor Ray Faulkner as…
Bruce Carnegie-Brown has been appointed the new president of the Chartered Management Institute. Carnegie-Brown will formally take over from outgoing president Mike Clasper at the…
We are delighted to welcome our new Business Development Manager, Andy Price to the team. With a background in AT training Andy has witnessed first-hand the…
The Department for Education (DfE) has today (23 Aug) announced that Eileen Milner has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the Education and…
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