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,...
Alex Balcon has battled against drug addiction to turn his life around with an Access to Healthcare course at Burton and South Derbyshire college, leading…
Emerging markets are having a notable influence on the UK’s international student population, according to a new report from ApplyBoard. Research from the Higher Education…
New data released by the trustee shows benefits can be restored and still leave the pension scheme in surplus Cuts forced through earlier this year will see the…
Ahead of two major UK conferences for test publishers and awarding bodies, PSI is calling for increased equity for test takers and the removal of…
Evidence Session: Wednesday 12 October 2.30pm Watch live on parliamentlive.tv MPs will question Education Ministers, Ofsted, and the Office for Students on attitudes towards women…
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Twelve organisations representing education staff, parents, governors and trustees have today written to Prime Minister Liz Truss and Education Secretary Kit Malthouse warning of their…
Ten Armed Forces establishments have been graded good for their initial training offering. However, persistent weaknesses in resources, infrastructure and accommodation are affecting the quality…
You may have heard about phonics teaching in schools and wondered what it means – as for many people phonics wasn’t a prominent part of…
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