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,...
South Lanarkshire College Plumbing and Gas student, Tom Gillies, has been named as a Rising Star of the Industry at the Scotland and Northern Ireland Plumbing…
The South Lanarkshire College Marketing and Communications Team have been recognised at the National College Development Network (CDN) Awards held in Glasgow recently. The awards,…
Department for Education have released full-year final data on apprenticeships and traineeships in England for the 2021/22 academic year (August 2021 to July 2022) Data…
UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH), the world’s first business school dedicated to health, will be launching an exciting new Executive Education course beginning…
The Birmingham Leadership Institute has officially launched its brand-new podcast, ‘Leadership Exchanged’. The six-episode podcast series investigates what kind of leadership is needed to help…
Radio presenter Edith Bowman was also inducted into the Colleges’ Hall of Fame during the awards ceremony A ground-breaking programme that uses virtual reality (VR)…
The nation’s most inspirational Further Education teachers, lecturers, and teams have been honoured at a prestigious ceremony following a televised week-long celebration of teaching on…
NEW training courses for security staff are set to launch in Greater Manchester as part of the city-region’s pioneering Skills for Growth programme. Greater Manchester…
Barnsley College Esports student, Layton Ripley, has beaten off the competition to be named BTEC Esports Learner of the Year at the BTEC Awards Ceremony…
3D design students and staff from Barking & Dagenham College have collaborated with Be First to create exhibition boards for a local exhibition which has…
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