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...
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 -...
MUSIC teacher Chris Harris has been honoured by Gosport Mayor Jamie Hutchison with a Gosport 100 Award for his contribution to music in the area.…
One year on from the study that revealed FE colleges are failing blind and partially sighted students, ALL Able and Thomas Pocklington Trust (TPT) have…
A new initiative designed to showcase the impactful and essential work of Teaching Assistants has been launched by one of the UK’s foremost educational charities. …
Cheryl Shirley, director of computing and digital skills at LEO Academy Trust, is celebrating after being recognised with this year’s silver ‘Digital Innovator of the…
Young chefs with a passion for cooking have the chance to improve their skills and aim to become the next Jamie Oliver or Monica Galetti.…
New City College was celebrating success in the WorldSkills UK national competition as Catering & Hospitality student Isaac King was named as a winner. Competing…
The exceptional achievements of a Newcastle College student have been celebrated this week, as Pearson unveiled the winners of its delayed BTEC Awards 2022. Tahreema…
Barnsley College Principal and CEO, Yiannis Koursis, has expressed his gratitude after officially being awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)…
Theatre designer Fi Russell has been appointed as a Lecturer on BA (Hons) Costume Production at Arts University Plymouth. Fi joins the university after over…
A survey of over 1,000 teachers and senior leaders in state schools has found 1 in 3 teachers do not know what educational neuroscience is,…
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