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...
Something struck me recently at the Breaking Barriers / NEET Collective, held in central London on 2nd June 2026 - a FE News and Edge...
EIGHT Brockenhurst College students have secured places to study for degrees at some of the UK’s leading schools of performing arts and music – the…
The largest and longest-running construction skills competition in the UK returns, as Gower College Swansea prepare to host 80-100 students for the SkillBuild 2023 South…
Skills for Security ‘Ultimate Apprentice Championship’ pits apprenticeship teams against each other in a series of technical challenges TIS Academy apprentices have been crowned ‘Ultimate…
Budding engineers from HSDC recently participated in our prestigious event which gave students the unique opportunity to showcase their project designs to a range of…
learndirect aims to bridge the green skills gap by offering a suite of online courses based around sustainability. learndirect has tapped into the growing demand…
Leicester College, the largest apprenticeship training delivery organisation in Leicester, has launched its new Apprentice Ambassador programme. The programme aims to recruit new ambassadors to…
Edinburgh Napier University has launched a new postgraduate education programme for Deloitte, the leading professional services firm. The agreement enables Deloitte to offer a unique,…
Aston University has begun a management Knowledge Transfer Partnership (mKTP) with nationwide accountants and business advisors Beever and Struthers to help drive the firm’s digital…
Mindstone, the learning platform that helps people learn faster and remember more from the articles, podcasts, and videos they interact with daily, has announced a…
West London College student Mariam Eish (20) who studies Digital Design Level 3 launched the Park Royal Open Workshop – POW – as part of…
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