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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The CBI has welcomed the government’s publication of the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper and its ambition to consolidate reforms that will support a…
Led by former Health Secretary Alan Milburn, the probe will examine why increasing numbers of young people are falling out of work or education before…
The Department for Education has today announced the appointment of Professor Chris Millward as Interim Director for Fair Access and Participation at the Office for Students…
Around 70,000 college students will benefit from new Regional Improvement Teams in new standards push, which will help to break the link between background and…
The Chair of the APPG on Apprenticeships and Environmental Audit Committee outlines how FE must respond to the twin challenges of economic growth and environmental…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 822: 8th November 2025. How Do We Keep Britain Working: When Economic Inactivity Due to Ill Health Costs the UK…
This week we released information sets to schools, further education providers and inspectors that help frame our inspection activity. These are called the Inspection Data…
The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, commonly known as ‘Martyn’s Law’, received Royal Assent on 3 April 2025. The legislation intends to improve safety…
More than 60 major and many small employers are joining forces with the government to tackle the rising tide of ill-health that is pushing people…
The Curriculum and Assessment Review final report to be published on Wednesday 5 November recommends that the government foreground high standards for all children in a refreshed and modernised national curriculum that will equip young people…
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