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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As part of Babington Group’s strategic growth plans, the Directors of Babington Group have made a new appointment of Chief Operating Officer (COO) and are…
London South East Colleges has appointed Stephen Howlett as the new Chair of its Corporation. Stephen takes the helm from Roger Dawe, who stepped down earlier this summer after…
Alistair Jarvis has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of Universities UK (UUK), the organisation which represents 136 universities in England, Wales, Scotland and…
The new Executive team has been unveiled to showcase a new merged powerhouse of education for the South East Midlands: The Bedford College Group. Bedford…
A senior academic at Robert Gordon University (RGU) has been handed a prestigious honour by a national pharmaceutical body. Professor Donald Cairns, Head of the…
Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford has announced the appointment of Dr Peter Drobac as new Director of the Skoll Centre for Social…
The Association of Colleges (AoC) has announced a new partnership with Irwin Mitchell in a move which will see the leading national law firm become…
The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) has today announced senior appointments to two newly created roles. In October, Jenny Jarvis will be joining the charity…
The Executive Dean of King’s College London’s new business school has been announced as Professor Stephen Bach. The appointment will see him leading the creation…
The leading London education consultancy announced the new appointments this week, and welcomed aboard two exceptional team members, taking on key new roles within the…
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