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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Closer links with an international organisation dedicated to the empowerment of women and girls and the University of Chester have been forged with two recent…
Future doctors at the University of Sunderland (@sunderlanduni) have showcased their work to local charities as part of an initiative to prepare them for their…
Vice Chancellors from some of the country’s leading universities will join forces with the government today (9 May) to discuss actions to address the rise…
Waltham Forest College (@WFCTweets), in collaboration with the British Association of Construction Heads (BACH), recently held a ground-breaking KOREC Connect event aimed at tackling the…
Global University Systems (@GlobalUniSystem), the further and life-long learning education group, is joining forces with major UK blue chips including British Airways and HSBC UK…
After a few drinks on Eurovision night, you might think you’re seeing double but it’s actually twin brothers and University of Sunderland students Callum and…
Miki Neal, a BA (Hons) Costume Production graduate from Arts University Plymouth (@artsuniplym), has established a successful career for herself with Dorset based Twins FX…
Offers from prestigious universities are flooding in for high achieving students at New City College’s Havering Sixth Form. Russell Group unis such as UCL, York,…
A multi-million-pound refurbishment project will transform a historic Barnsley College building into an exceptional centre of innovation and world-class technical education for South Yorkshire. The…
The number of UK students who feel constantly stressed almost doubles when they also feel like they don’t belong at their institution, according to research…
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