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,...
SkillsActive Group, the Sector Skills Council, has welcomed a report outlining a number of recommendations from the sport and active leisure industry to safeguard their…
A new scheme was launched yesterday to encourage at least 20,000 college and university students across the UK to participate in activities related to the…
John Lewis has signed up to SSC Skillsmart Retail’s pre-employment programme, offering successful participants job interviews at its existing or new stores, vacancies permitting. For…
A quarter of business in the UK are struggling to find the right calibre of staff even though around 2.4 million are currently out of…
Filton College has launched Bristol’s first renewables centre to help learners prepare for the rising demand for green technologies. Guests were invited to tour the Bristol…
Apprenticeship recruiter Damar Training has helped to enrol more that 100 apprentices with 50 employers in the North-West over the first 100 days of the…
More than nine in ten colleges facing 2011-2012 cuts believe reduced funding will have a negative impact on their teaching and learning capabilities, according to…
I don’t think I will ever tire of the reaction I get from people the first time they visit Newcastle College. People tend to expect…
Everybody is talking about the cloud and how it can significantly cut costs for the public sector, especially through widely publicised initiatives such as the…
Ofsted should be halved into education and children’s care divisions to improve the quality of its inspection duties, according to a report published yesterday by…
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