It’s been a couple of weeks since the Milburn report was published, and I like everyone have been digesting the report and the analysis. Like a well-trained student,...
Britain’s NEET crisis is no longer a warning sign; it is a structural failure. The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures (Jan-March 2026) estimate...
Across further and higher education, widening participation has become one of the defining policy priorities of the past two decades. Institutions have rightly focused on...
Young people today are entering a world in upheaval. Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, record-breaking temperatures, and the accelerating rise of AI is...
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...
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Within his first 100 days as the Chair of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), Chris Banks, today enabled the transformation of the LSC and…
“ The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) announced the appointment of Richard Healey as its new Finance Director. Healey will lead the Finance division and…
“ As a part of a major restructuring plan, the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) are making a number of new appointments. One of these…
“ The CBI boss Richard Lambert and Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC are amongst the Commissioners appointed to the new UK Commission for…
“ The CBI boss Richard Lambert and Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC are amongst the Commissioners appointed to the new UK Commission for…
“ As a part of a major restructuring plan, the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) are making a number of new appointments. One of these…
“ Bryan Gray, the current Chair of North West Regional Development Agency (NWDA), has been reappointed for a second term, the Secretary of State for…
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) Lincolnshire and Rutland has appointed its first Area Wide Inspection (AWI) Manager to co-ordinate activities towards improving 14-19 education.…
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