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,...
New business start-ups, career progression and university places. Just some of the positiveoutcomes for the graduates of Bishop Auckland College’s higher education class of 2022.…
More primary school pupils will benefit from high quality phonics and expert literacy teaching as part of new funding announced today (Sunday 9 October). Over £24 million is…
North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College (NWSLC) has joined over 200 colleges across the UK to have reaffirmed its commitment to staff and students by…
One of our key roles is monitoring the school system to understand how well it is working and how things are changing. A key tool…
Statutory guidance on local authorities’ and regional directors’ responsibilities relating to schools and PRUs causing concern.Read More
Statutory guidance on local authorities’ and regional directors’ responsibilities relating to schools and PRUs causing concern.Read More
Home Education, training and skills School and academy funding Funding for different types of schools and settings Funding for 16 to 19 year olds in…
Levels of permanent exclusions and suspensions in the Autumn term 202 to 2022 including breakdowns by school type, and reasons for exclusion and suspensions.Read More
Over £2.6bn has been paid to 1.1m students in the first term of the 22/23 academic year, according to figures released today* by the Student…
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones MBE, The Black Farmer and a member of the Royal Agricultural University’s (RAU) Governing Council, is to deliver this year’s annual Bledisloe Lecture…
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