It’s been a couple of weeks since the Milburn report was published, and I like everyone have been digesting the report and the analysis. Like a well-trained student,...
Britain’s NEET crisis is no longer a warning sign; it is a structural failure. The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures (Jan-March 2026) estimate...
Across further and higher education, widening participation has become one of the defining policy priorities of the past two decades. Institutions have rightly focused on...
Young people today are entering a world in upheaval. Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, record-breaking temperatures, and the accelerating rise of AI is...
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...
In December 2020, owing to the significant public interest, the Student Loans Company (SLC) took the decision to publish data on the withdrawal notifications it…
In quarter 2 2022 (April to June) there were no COVID-19 restrictions in place in England. Adaptations to vocational and other qualifications continued to be…
Local authority spending plans for education, children’s services and social care.
One-in-ten UK primary schools (11%) have taken no steps to minimise the impact of a cyber-attack, despite almost all (96%) understanding the risk they pose.…
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@BordersCollege Department of Enterprise and Business Innovation (DEBI) is celebrating this month following some really positive results from their Annual Vocational Survey. The DEBI Vocational…
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A recent illustrated synopsis (Jane Fryer, Daily Mail, September 27) of NASA’s £30 million probe DART’s high-speed collision against the asteroid Dimorphos described an experimental…
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