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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A new principal and chief executive has been appointed to head up City of Wolverhampton College. Claire Boliver, who has held the position on an…
The Department for Education has today (5 July 2017) announced the appointment of Nicola Dandridge as the inaugural Chief Executive of the Office for Students…
LEEDS College of Building has appointed Ian Hirst as Faculty Director of Construction Crafts to manage the College’s construction craft courses and curriculum. Subjects and…
Kirsti Lord, Acting Principal at City College Coventry, has been appointed as the new Deputy Chief Executive for Member Services of the Association of Colleges.…
A GATESHEAD technology firm that provides specialist quality assurance software for the education sector has boosted growth plans with a new appointment. Team Valley-based MESMA…
NMiTE, Britain’s new engineering university, has appointed Professor Janusz Kozinski as its inaugural President and Chief Executive. Kozinski, who will take up his post in…
Academics from the University of Essex are using their research expertise to help improve public services in the county. As the newly-appointed Chief Scientific…
National land management charity the Land Trust is delighted to announce the appointment of three new Trustees to the Board. With a variety of backgrounds…
The Institute of Economic Development (IED), the UK’s independent professional body representing economic development and regeneration practitioners, has added one of the country’s leading enterprise and…
The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) is pleased to announce the appointment of James Stockdale as Global Director of Learning, previously Assistant Director,…
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