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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Children and young people will leave school fully equipped to thrive in the modern world of work under reforms to breathe new life into the national…
Ed Fidoe welcomes the Post-16 White Paper’s focus on growth, levy flex and clearer technical routes, but warns it misses the glue: interdisciplinary skills and…
Experts are warning of a “workforce learning slowdown” as the long-running Adult Participation in Learning Survey records a sharp contraction in the number of adults learning nationally.…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 821: 1st November 2025. What is a Green Mindset? … and how can you be one of the 3% that…
Local authorities are struggling to balance their legal duty to provide transport for eligible pupils and the duty to balance their budget, says the NAO.…
The Department for Work and Pensions has today published its response to the Pathways to Work consultation, which received 47,983 responses making it one of…
New report exposes major AI skills gap holding UK businesses back – but 3 new tools launched will help unlock up to £400bn growth potential…
The Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper (October 2025) has set out to reshape the current landscape of further and higher education for a generation.…
Exam board AQA has strengthened its commitment to apprenticeships and adult skills by acquiring a training provider. Realise Training Group will now operate as an…
The new agreement represents a significant step forward in driving digital change in further education Jisc and the Association of Colleges (AoC) today announce a…
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