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...
Walsall College is supporting the late Queen Elizabeth’s Green Canopy initiative (QGC) by planting a tree at its campus every year. The pledge comes after…
A new multi-million-pound technical education institute in Greater Manchester will open to students in September 2023, after being granted a licence by the Department for…
A new inquiry by the Education Committee will investigate causes and possible solutions to the growing issue of children’s absence from school. Government statistics have…
A new £5m Innovation Fund is to be established to support Further Education (FE) colleges look at new ways to support learners, the Minister for…
Peter Symonds College, Winchester, is pleased to have been selected as one of just 239 schools and colleges in the country for the Department of…
New data from the BBC shows almost a third of university courses are still combining face-to-face teaching with online learning in 2022-23, compared with only 4.1 percent in…
Newly released Census data show a jump of 16.7% in the number of 16-24-year-olds living in communal establishments between 2011 to 2021. While it might…
Students in need are to benefit from additional financial support designed toease cost of living pressures and help them to meet everyday costs whilst they…
With the potential for teacher strikes in England, this article seeks to explain the latest picture on how teacher pay in England has changed over…
Barnsley College Sport students have taken part in a five-week tennis leader course in partnership with professional coaches from the Lawn Tennis Association. The course…
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