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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Today, the Office for Students (OfS) publishes a new strategy that explains how it will strive to deliver exemplary regulation in the interest of students. …
The FE sector has a bolt-on problem. Sustainability gets added to curriculums, tacked onto strategies, and treated as another requirement to tick off. But what…
The Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper sends a clear message that players in the education and skills ecosystem must work together more seamlessly and…
The Education Select Committee has written to the Secretary of State for Education requesting further information about how the Government’s promised “co-creation” process for SEND…
“Who is going to lead this green revolution if not FE and skills?” It’s a direct challenge from Dr Lou Mycroft, who works with Green…
The latest ONS Labour Market information has been released for July to September 2025. Work Foundation have also looked at the latest figures on zero…
Former Education Secretary Alan Johnson calls for system that works equally for school leavers and older workers Experts are calling on the Government to do…
A new report from the Association of Colleges (AoC) and Ufi, in collaboration with Jisc (Digital baseline: exploring the use of technology in FE), calls…
There’s a paradox at the heart of the FE sector’s approach to sustainability. We need urgent action on green skills, yet the ultimate goal should…
The government’s new curriculum review is welcome, but it’s not the revolution we need. For the first time in over a decade, we’re seeing official…
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