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...
14 UK schools have fallen victim to a major cyber-attack, resulting in confidential documents, including children’s passport scans and staff contracts, being leaked. The data…
Students in Years 10 and 11 who normally learn at home are benefiting from dedicated support to succeed with their English and maths GCSEs thanks…
The Way We Play allows you to explore game design and theory while also learning the nuances of how games in different genres should be approached,…
There are currently 9 million children in schools across the United Kingdom. With this amount of students there comes a whole lot of food, meaning…
Training courses created to support and upskill blue light service workers are now available in Greater Manchester as part of the city-region’s three-year Skills for…
Highly talented electronic musician and student at WaterBear the college of music, Nev Scott, has been signed by the iconic independent house music label, Toolroom Records. Nev,…
Access Creative College has become the first training provider to deliver a new music-industry apprenticeship, in partnership with Pirate. The two UK leading institutions have…
Barnsley College Level 2 Hairdressing apprentice Holly Oldfield is in the final running for a national ‘Apprentice of the Year’ award in the UK Hair…
Anne Gornall, Executive Director at Greater Manchester Learning Provider Network (GMLPN), has received an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list for services to Further…
Many further education (FE) lecturers will have experiences where students are reluctant to speak up and ask for help. Whether to answer questions or flag…
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