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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It’s time for the penultimate episode of the FE News and Cognassist Neurodiversity: Empowering Learning and Employment series. Reel #9 breaks down reasonable adjustments in…
In this podcast we discuss how boards can tackle the question of accountability for creating a safe environment in the organisation they lead. We look…
Aston University and Aston Business School (ABS) careers consultant Yasmin Ansari does not think much of the ‘where will I be in five years’ philosophy…
How do we learn? It’s sometimes amazing to think that people aren’t taught how to learn or the processes we use when we learn. Reel…
This is the fourth in our series of six podcasts looking at how FE providers can take steps to reduce the risk of sexual harm…
Episode 008 of the academic integrity podcast The Score features Jennifer Wright with the University of Central Florida. Wright helps facilitate workshops and seminars on…
The world of neurodiversity sees an almost infinite variation in how we think and learn. Being neurodifferent can require support at varying degrees, and it’s…
In this podcast we are discussing what regulators are looking for, signposting some of the documents you need to be familiar with and suggesting some…
This episode, we’re going back to education and looking at how practitioners can evidence their learning support. Because without evidence, there’s no accountability or proof…
In this podcast, the second in a series of six, we are looking at what education leaders should understand about the legal context around criminal…
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