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...
Work-based learning providers are being encouraged to bid for £3 million of funding, from the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), to help the sector adopt…
Quay Assessment Training Limited, Kent Summary of grades awarded: Effectiveness of provision Good: Grade 2 Capacity to improve Satisfactory: Grade 3 Achievement and standards…
According to a survey released today by Skillfast-UK, the Sector Skills Council for fashion and textiles, the vast majority of parents are wholeheartedly in favour…
Next month will see the most dramatic overhaul of retail qualifications in more than two decades. As part of a general move to improve transparency,…
7Even Training Limited, Birmingham Summary of grades awarded: Effectiveness of provision Satisfactory: Grade 3 Capacity to improve Satisfactory: Grade 3 Achievement and standards Satisfactory:…
A full public consultation period concerning the proposed merger of South East Derbyshire College (SEDC) and Derby College to create a single Further Education college…
One of Government’s 17 new Diplomas, the Diploma in Languages and International Communication which was reported on in FE News on 10 May is now…
Quality Staff Training, Essex Summary of grades awarded: Effectiveness of provision Inadequate: Grade 4 Capacity to improve Inadequate: Grade 4 Achievement and standards Inadequate:…
According to new research, 74 per cent of the population are planning to change their career, however one in four suspect they never will because…
The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), which aims to develop excellent and sustainable FE provision across the sector, has launched two new schemes for…
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