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,...
@BordersCollege student Ben Rorison is following his passion for radio presenting by launching a new podcast aimed at addressing issues faced by students. 19-year-old Ben…
The Minister for Education and Welsh Language, Jeremy Miles, has today announced several changes to support and encourage more people to join the teaching profession.…
Students will be hit harder by the cost-of-living crisis than previously thought. Poorest studentswill be more than £1,000 worse off than in 2020–21. English-domiciled students…
The remarkable accomplishments of Ashanti France from Waltham Forest College was celebrated as she was awarded the prestigious bronze BTEC Award for Business and Enterprise…
The Department for Education has released its new Prevent Duty Self-Assessment Tool for Schools – an easy-to-use resource designed to help Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs)…
Arden University – a leading UK-based provider of flexible, online and blended learning, and the UK’s fastest growing university – has announced it is opening…
Fife College picked up two awards at the Scottish college sector’s annual awards last week (Friday 25 November). One for their Health & Wellbeing work…
Films, posters, guides, checklists and fact sheets make up this year’s NAW2023 resource bundle, with even more to come in January, including an exciting new…
THE appliance of science in Germany inspired a group of learners from Coleg Cambria. Fourteen students from the college’s Yale site in Wrexham visited Berlin…
Wiltshire College & University Centre will offer free maths courses to adults who previously failed GCSE maths as part of a new national campaign. Courses…
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