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 -...
The children looked after return is an annual statutory data collection for all local authorities. You must complete statutory censuses by law unless there’s a…
Home Parenting, childcare and children’s services Safeguarding and social care for children Looked-after children and children in care Data collection for looked-after children Guidance Read…
Six in 10 UK Teachers Believe Today’s Pupils Lack Basic Financial Understanding When They Leave School More than six in 10 (64%) UK secondary school…
Universities in Australia, Wales and Sweden best in world at handling enquiries A global mystery shopper study conducted with over 100 higher education institutions has…
University of Brighton journalism graduate Jordan Hogan has won a TV reporting Emmy award – considered the Oscars of US TV. Jordan (pictured on right…
The Association of School and College Leaders has written to Education Secretary Kit Malthouse expressing our dismay at some of the comments he made in…
The vision of harnessing the power of education to transform lives in a recognised higher education (HE) ‘cold spot’ has taken a major step forward. …
Edinburgh College has been named as a regional Planet Saver award winner in the British Chambers of Commerce Business Awards and will now compete for…
Five Year 7 and 8 students from Leeds have been named the winners of an exciting creative challenge launched by Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West…
The parents of Harry Armstrong Evans, a 21-year-old student from Cornwall who took his own life in June of 2021, are today launching a bid…
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